Barring the smallest manned airplanes, most aircraft that are pulled around by a prop have variable pitch propellers. The reason for this is simple efficiency. Internal combustion engines are most ...

Pyka appeared out of nowhere in 2019 with an unusual take on electric aircraft: a pilotless crop duster. The success of this first plane led the company to begin developing its next one, the P3: a ...

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Mono-wing Aeroplanes did not come to fore until the mid 1930s, when the power of engines and variable-pitch propellers allowed a plane to use just one set of wings for lift instead of relying on ...

The propeller component of this assembly was manufactured by Ole Flottorp in Chicago, Illinois for James B. Lund and R.D. Dwight, also of Chicago, who designed and constructed a mammoth tandem ...

The initial investigation in Yeti Airlines plane crash in Nepal shows that the engines didn't had enough thrust at the last leg of descent. A preliminary investigation into the Yeti Airlines plane ...