Click to open image viewer. During 1908, New York entrepreneur Inglis M. Uppercu made an investment in New Jersey's Boland Aeroplane and Motor Co., eventually becoming its president and chairman. When ...

When it’s time to buy a new propeller for your boat, diameter and pitch are the most important characteristics to research. To be able to select or upgrade to a new propeller, you must understand ...

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You’ve used a boat payment calculator to secure the ship of your dreams, tackled the open waters, and enjoyed every minute of it. Now, the time has come to buy a new propeller. If this is your first ...

Propellers for piston-powered small airplanes primarily come in fixed-pitch, ground-adjustable, and constant-speed variants. Fixed-pitch propellers have a static blade angle, optimizing performance ...

During my 30-plus-year history with this magazine, reader queries about propellers have remained constant and unrelenting. Questions that once came in letters and phone calls now arrive digitally, but ...

Designed specifically for Van’s RV class of aircraft, this new propeller features Sensenich’s highly successful proprietary airfoils on a semi-scimitar planform for improved takeoff and climb ...

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GT Propellers' recreated Fairey Reed propeller has entered flight testing, with more than 12 hours flown on a Tiger Moth before evaluation on a de Havilland Chipmunk. The modern composite design ...

Quadcopters tend to have very poor efficency because of their high disk loading. High disk loading– that is, how much weight each square meter of area swept by the propellers must carry–is almost ...