When it comes to aircraft propulsion, two common types of engines are frequently discussed: piston engines and turboprop ...

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 ...

Recently, we highlighted the value of turboprops as the perfect niche aircraft between the passenger jet and the piston-driven propeller plane segments. But what if the use cases for turboprops ...

The opposed-piston engine has been around for over 100 years ... from which power is sent to the wheels (or the propeller or whatever you’re powering). The function of the valves is performed ...

Put your propeller cap on and join us for a pocket protector talk after the jump. Used to be that a gas engine was a gas engine and a diesel was a diesel. With the advent of reliable direct ...

Very little is known about one such case – the home-built twin-engine, double propeller, piston speed-record breaker wannabe - the RP-4 of air racing champion David Rose. The RP-4 was the ...

NTSB issued a safety alert warning pilots to train for partial as well as full power loss in multiengine piston aircraft ... to properly manage the propeller on the engine that lost power.

The run-ups executed by pilots of piston-engine airplanes allow them to check the ignition system for the spark plugs, plus the propeller controls. Turbine engines do not have spark plugs and the ...

The last dogfights between piston-engine, propeller-driven airplanes weren’t fought in the skies over Germany in the 1940s or even Korea in the 1950s. They occurred in Central America in 1969 ...

A propeller is a mechanical thrust device – rapidly rotating blades connected to a piston engine or turbine, whose role is to push air backward and generate forward thrust. For many years ...