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 ...
Guessing Headlights on MSN
Why the B-52 bomber uses eight engines instead of four
As of January, the B-52 Commercial Engine Replacement Program has moved into hardware production. Two airframes are now being ...
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 ...
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China’s 1,200 kW homegrown turboprop engine nails brutal cold start test
China has pushed a new piece of aviation hardware through one of the harshest trials in the business, proving that its first ...
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China’s first homegrown 1,200‑kW turboprop aircraft engine aces cold ignition test
A 1,200-kilowatt-class turboprop engine developed in China has successfully completed its ignition test conducted ...
Pratt & Whitney Canada pursues FAA certification for PT9A-11 turboprop and PW220A turboshaft engines
Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) is still working on a new turboprop engine called the PT9A-11 and is also continuing to seek certification of a new helicopter turboshaft powerplant called the PW220A.
Safran Helicopter Engines and Germany’s ZF Aviation Technology have signed agreements to take forward the development of a turboprop engine based on Safran’s Ardiden turboshaft. The two companies ...
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