Wärtsilä introduced the FPP Opti Design, a new fixed pitch propeller (FPP) design concept. According to Wärtsilä, the new design offers fuel savings of up to 4 percent and highly reliable full scale ...

A recent graduate of Cracow University of Technology in Poland has developed a functional prototype of a vessel that uses a propulsion device inspired by cephalopod swimming techniques. Developer ...

The lightweight, aluminum four-blade system achieve more than 50 pounds of weight savings and improve takeoff and climb performance for B300 turbo-prop private aircraft. Textron Inc.’s McCauley ...

A digitizer captured the dimensions of one of the propeller blades on the fishing vessel named Harmony. A laser tracker helped measure a 25-year-old propeller in just a few hours as a means of ...

HydroComp PropCad is software for geometric modeling of marine propellers for design and manufacture that provides automatic preparation of 2D design drawings, 3D offsets, thickness classification ...

DETROIT--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sharrow Marine, the industry leader in innovative marine propulsion technology, is honored to announce that the Sharrow X10™ propeller was honored as a nominee for the 2024 ...

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif., Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Hamilton Sundstrand NP 2000 propellers are being tested by U.S. Air Force engineers in California on a C-130H3 aircraft. The new eight-bladed composite ...

Combination of carbon, glass and epoxy resin produces a strong replacement for nickel/aluminum/bronze metal, the current propeller standard. Damage-tolerant reinforcing fabric strengthens highly ...

Joby Aviation is known for developing electric air taxis for commercial service and soon it will begin preparing propeller ...

Electrification is seen as having an important role to play in the fossil-free aviation of tomorrow. But electric aviation is battling a trade-off dilemma: the more energy-efficient an electric ...

In a recent column I described how my friend David Ewing, CTO at Synapse Wireless, is in the process of designing and building 250 wireless mesh networked propeller beanie hats. Known collectively as ...