Despite being integral to aviation for more than a century, propellers have changed remarkably little since the Wright Brothers. A team at MIT’s Lincoln Lab has developed a new propeller shape ...

We assert that Ericsson is not the inventor of propellers for steamships, and that his propeller is not in use in England at all. The first inventor of the screw propeller in America, was Col.

FLYING cars might soon be a reality after the unveiling of an ultra-sleek model from China. The Land Aircraft Carrier is a ...

"There are a large number of woods used in the construction of airplane propellers and the selection of one suitable to meet the conditions in hand is not always an easy problem," writes Frank W.

The tests demonstrated at-sea hydrodynamic performance, including submerged operations using all of the vehicle’s modes of ...

Swiss marine giant ABB has spent more than a decade developing a radically different Voith-Schneider take on a marine propeller. The Dynafin system promises up to 85% efficiency, while giving a ...

Chantiers de l’Atlantique selected Brunvoll as the supplier of main propulsion for Orient Express Silenseas’s new cruise ...

Mejzlik Propellers manufactures top-quality carbon fixed-pitch propeller blades for the UAV market, and Dufour is excited to incorporate them into the main propeller on Aero2. Simon Bendrey, Head ...

After months of collaborative design work and testing of SHARROW by VEEM prototype designs on VEEM’s 64’ Viking test vessel, ...

For a few years in the mid-1940s, the Douglas Aircraft Company pursued a decidedly unconventional design concept.

This book deals with flows over propellers operating behind ships, and the hydrodynamic forces and movements that the propeller generates on the shaft and on the ship hull. The first part of the book ...

In dense urban environments, it is said to have detected one in three drones and only within a range of 800 metres. The ...