While the world rushed into the Jet Age, the Soviet Union took a different path. The Tupolev Tu-95 used massive ...

The history of aviation is riddled with stories about what-ifs projects and daredevils who dreamt big and woke up to a sad reality. Very little is known about one such case – the home-built ...

Propellers come in a lot of different sizes, shapes and designs, but they all serve one basic function: to convert an engines rotational force into thrust. They seem fairly simple-and fixed-pitch ...

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 ...