Today's passenger aircraft house some of the most cutting-edge innovations in engine technology, and that list most certainly includes turboprop engines. In layman's terms, a turboprop is a jet engine ...

Throughout much of history, humanity has desired to get its feet off the ground. High off the ground. Thus, around the start of the 20th century, great strides were made in aviation. In short order, ...

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 ...