"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.

Engines Podcast The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1357: Testing Airplane Propellers Episode: 1357 An airplane propeller test facility, twelve years before the Wright Brothers. Today, we test airplane ...

When one thinks of the average airplane, odds are that propellers are part of that mental image. They've been a crucial component of airplane construction from the moment air travel found its footing ...

Designers of airplane propellers used to weep into their blueprints every time a jet plane roared over the plant. They feared that the fierce little jets, which have no propellers, were the wave of ...