It's fairly common knowledge that when a supersonic aircraft approaches the sound barrier, what follows is the sonic boom. This transitory period between subsonic and supersonic, known as transonic ...

Electrification is seen as having an important role to play in the fossil-free aviation of tomorrow. But electric aviation is battling a trade-off dilemma: the more energy-efficient an electric ...

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 ...

DETROIT--(BUSINESS WIRE)--With a new patent granted in New Zealand, Sharrow Engineering now has a total of 36 patents to protect embodiments of the unique SHARROW PROPELLER™. “This is a landmark ...

U.S. airlines mostly abandoned propeller planes in the 1990s. But considerations by Embraer to build a next-generation, large regional turboprop aircraft for first delivery late this decade could jump ...