We live in an age of military jet engines and have since the tail end of World War II ... to all kinds of aircraft operated ...

With the pilot both trying to fly the plane and fire a weapon ... hitting a propeller blade. Many synchronizer designs were developed during the war, some which introduced improvements.

What people likely don't imagine is a turboprop aircraft. After all, the age of jets came about during the final years of World War II, and that conflict featured plenty of turboprop fighters.

Long before the aircraft was invented, ramming tactics were employed in both naval and ground warfare. As the name suggests, ramming consists of using one vessel’s body to damage another’s body, much ...

Propeller planes that once dominated the skies could again serve some of the world’s busiest flight routes under Airbus’s ...

The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era American military aircraft ranges from propeller-driven trainers, fighters, flying boats, and bombers to the nation’s first generation of jet-powered ...

It too had a modern engine, propeller, brakes ... Peter Jackson’s Vintage Aviator Ltd., which reconstructs World War I aircraft. The ability to fly the airplanes, not merely look at them ...