When light sport aircraft manufacturer JDT Mini-Max (Nappanee, Ind.) wanted to offer its customers a lighter alternative to its aluminum propeller spinner — the aerodynamically shaped conical “nose” ...

Hartzell Propeller received an FAA STC for a new three-blade Polaris composite propeller designed to replace the standard propeller on Diamond DA40 NG aircraft with Austro Engine E4-A. The Polaris ...

Hartzell Propeller received an STC for its Talon propeller for the Extra 300L aircraft. The Talon prop offers a 2.5% increase in takeoff performance, a 5% decrease in takeoff distance, and improved ...

A passenger on a commercial turboprop airplane in Canada got a scare this week when a bolt from the propeller came loose and was sent speeding like a bullet into the window next to him, in what is ...

Wayne McMaster of Jeffersonville, Indiana, likes to fly formation in his F1-Rocket with his RV buddies but the F1 is enough different from the RVs to cause sight-line problems. Using the usual RV ...

Getting the gun camera and gun sight to point in exactly the right direction was important on a WWII fighter. Here’s how they did it on the P-51 Mustang. The plane’s propeller spinner and the nose of ...