When you're at an airport and see propeller aircraft, you likely think it is powered by a piston engine. This is usually true among smaller planes, like the Cessa 172 Skyhawk and the Piper Archer, or ...

Diesel engines are a rarity in aviation history, but they've carved out an interesting niche. While most aircraft rely on gasoline-powered piston engines or jet turbines, diesel has offered some ...

At the very crux of engineering is the desire to problem-solve, optimize, and squeeze out every bit of efficiency possible from the system being built. Aircraft design and aeronautical engineering ...

The Piper M700 Fury was certified just last year, in 2024. This latest model in the Piper M-Class family, also known as the ...

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) and Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) have jointly announced that turbo-propeller engines, which power GA-ASI’s state-of-art MQ-9B Remotely ...

FITCHBURG — Unclench your teeth. Relax your shoulders. Release that death grip on the yoke. You just took off the main runway at Fitchburg Municipal Airport on a Cessna 172 Skyhawk — a 1,600-pound, ...

The propeller — a relic from the dawn of powered flight more than a century ago — is making a comeback as an emblem of aviation’s greener future. Rotors are proliferating on futuristic air taxis and ...

Each A400M's TP400-D6 engine carries a Ratier-Figeac FH386 propeller with a diameter of 5.334 meters and a weight of 683 kg.