Composite design is customized to specific aircraft performance goals and engine characteristics, while meeting stringent Federal Aviation Admin. (FAA) type-certification requirements. Resin transfer ...

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 ...

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 high-efficiency aerodynamic and aeroacoustic optimization framework comprises the following key modules: 1) Shape parameterization, which transforms the baseline geometry into a set of design ...

Kongsberg Maritime’s rim-drive azimuth thruster has achieved Silent-E notation from DNV, the first of its kind to receive this certification.Installed on the new commissioning service operation vessel ...

Ship propellers are a constant compromise between efficiency, vibration, cavitation, and power delivery. This video explains why adding blades can solve serious mechanical problems, and why engineers ...

As part of Digital Propulsion (DigiProp), the National Composites Centre (NCC) has designed and manufactured a full-scale prototype of a propeller blade and its manufacturing system for turboprop ...

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 ...

Europe has recently voiced very high ambitions for reducing Aircraft community noise, with the Advisory Council for Aviation Research and Innovation in Europe (ACARE) pushing for a 65% noise reduction ...

Hydrocomp’s newest release of PropCad incorporates 3 years of enhancements. Propellers are surprisingly complex devices, especially considering most are a solid piece of metal with no moving parts.