Despite being integral to aviation for more than a century, propellers have changed remarkably little since the Wright Brothers. A team at MIT’s Lincoln Lab has developed a new propeller shape ...
The engineers became pretty inventive, even finding ways to fire bullets through the path of the wooden propeller blades while somehow not tearing them to splinters. At the start of the war ...
The design canceled the effects of propeller torque that might have pulled the aircraft to the left or right. A more modern aircraft using this technology is the Airbus A400M 'Atlas.' Given its ...
Airbus’ A400M airlifter is set to receive a series of upgrades as part of a new agreement between the launch customer nations. The upgrades package, called Block Upgrade 0, will update the ...
(Janes/Gareth Jennings) While development activities continue towards achieving the revised capability road map for the A400M Atlas transport aircraft, Airbus said on 30 October that “risks ...
Airbus Defence & Space has signed a pair of contracts with procurement office OCCAR covering support and upgrade activities for the A400M airlifter. OCCAR – which manages the programme on behalf ...
The Atlas A400M arrived in the Falkland Islands last week. Having completed the 20 hour journey from the UK, A400M touched down at Mount Pleasant Complex on Tuesday afternoon, a week ago.
A woman was killed in a freak accident at a Kansas airfield after she backed into an active airplane propeller while taking photos. Just before 3 p.m. on Saturday, October 26, the Sedgwick County ...
The German parliament has signed off on a plan to finance upgrades to the Airbus A400M military transport as part of a wider round of military spending approvals. The budget committee OK’d € ...