Horizon Aircraft, an aerospace engineering firm focusing on hybrid eVTOL aircraft, announced a strategic partnership with MT-Propeller to supply advanced propellers for its Cavorite X7 model. This ...

In the very near future, electric propulsion will reach for the sky. Already several companies are working on airplanes that use electric motors instead of the usual engines, as a means to kill ...

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 ...

Alaina Lewis with the 90-inch mahogany propeller she made for a Bristol F.2 Fighter, her most challenging job to date. Lewis sanding the hub on a propeller—Day 3 of the task—meant for a Lycoming ...

Jonathan Chestney, engineering leader at Dowty. Credit: Dowty Jonathan Chestney, engineering leader at GE Aerospace subsidiary Dowty, speaks with Aviation Week Network about advances in aircraft ...

The propeller system is the earliest thrust generator designed for fully powered aircraft flight. Though they have evolved quite a bit since their first operation by the Wright brothers in 1903, ...