Today's passenger aircraft house some of the most cutting-edge innovations in engine technology, and that list most certainly includes turboprop engines. In layman's terms, a turboprop is a jet engine ...

The Skyraider II is the first US Air Force plane since the Vietnam War to have a propeller instead of a jet engine—but there are good reasons for it.

When you picture a propeller-driven aircraft, you probably imagine a single engine plane with the propeller spinning at the front. There's a good reason for that, as the front-facing design has proven ...