The aviation industry has never seen a propeller quite like this before. Hartzell-which has designed and built propellers for more than a century-on Monday revealed that the FAA awarded Part 35 type ...

UK investigators have determined that the windmilling propeller on an experimental Piper M350 – which had been modified with a hydrogen fuel-cell engine – locked out power to the electric motors, ...

The company aims to convert 100-seat airliners and military aircraft to electric propulsion Wright Electric has started a new round of ground tests with electric motors at its Albany, New York ...

Electrification is seen as having an important role to play in the fossil-free aviation of tomorrow. But electric aviation is battling a trade-off dilemma: the more energy-efficient an electric ...

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Rim-driven thrusters turn the normal propeller-motor arrangement inside out; rather than mounting the motor at the center of the propeller, they use a large hollow motor, with the blades attached ...