Quadcopters tend to have very poor efficency because of their high disk loading. High disk loading– that is, how much weight ...

Sharrow knew it had a market disruptor on its hands the instant it transformed propeller blades into more efficient twisted ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) have used molecular dynamics simulations to build a nanoscale propeller with molecule-sized blades. This is the first time that researchers ...

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. SINTEF has now designed and manufactured new measuring equipment for model testing of contra-rotating propellers. This could be good ...

Composite material technology for next-generation of marine vessel propellers CoPropel project, funded by the European Union under Horizon Europe, received an Innovation Award at JEC World Premiere.

WHEN A MODIFIED MD-80 airliner flew at the 1988 Farnborough air show in Britain, it was supposed to represent the future of air travel. One of its rear-mounted jet engines had been replaced with an ...