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.

French electric marine drive specialist BlueNav is preparing to put a more natural spin in its lineup. The all-new Whale Design propeller features blades that follow the contours of a whale to improve ...

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 ...

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

Combination of carbon, glass and epoxy resin produces a strong replacement for nickel/aluminum/bronze metal, the current propeller standard. Damage-tolerant reinforcing fabric strengthens highly ...

A newly developed propeller optimizer makes it much faster to identify propeller-hull reactions and reach design decisions. In the EU project STREAMLINE the fuel efficiency of a chemical tanker was ...

This paper by TSAW Drones discusses the need for less noise in UAVs, how these toroidals can benefit the drone industry, how these propellers came to be and how exactly they reduce the noise. Also, in ...