Precious Metal is a staple of the air racing community. The highly modified P-51's striking yellow and polished paint job and its contra-rotating propellers are features that make it stand out, but ...

Douglas Aircraft Company explored unconventional pusher propeller designs in the mid-1940s, culminating in the XB-42 Mixmaster bomber and the conceptual DC-8 Skybus airliner, neither of which went ...

New features for the industry-standard resistance and propulsion software, HydroComp's NavCad. Many contemporary marine vehicles are being outfitted with contra-rotating propellers (CRP), and naval ...

The Russian Tu-95 'Bear' isn't just a relic of the Cold War, with the potential for a nuclear payload capable of untold devastation. It's eight contra-rotating propellers also enable to it hold the ...

When we think of Bugatti, we generally think of classic sportscars like the T13 and modern day supercars such as the all-conquering Veyron. However, back in the late 1930s, Ettore Bugatti also set out ...

Most of the time, an aeronautical engine is only somewhat interesting without the context of the aircraft it's mounted inside. There are a few exceptions, of course. We need not name-drop the ...