When you're at an airport and see propeller aircraft, you likely think it is powered by a piston engine. This is usually true among smaller planes, like the Cessa 172 Skyhawk and the Piper Archer, or ...
As of January, the B-52 Commercial Engine Replacement Program has moved into hardware production. Two airframes are now being ...
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 ...
Derived from a Mooney Aircraft design and developed with French manufacturer Socata, the TBM 700 entered service in 1990 as the first pressurized turbine single and the fastest type in its category, ...
China has pushed a new piece of aviation hardware through one of the harshest trials in the business, proving that its first ...
A 1,200-kilowatt-class turboprop engine developed in China has successfully completed its ignition test conducted ...
RTX Corporation’s RTX business, Pratt & Whitney, has been awarded the type certification for the PW127XT-L regional turboprop engine by Transport Canada Civil Aviation. This marks the 200th type ...
Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) is still working on a new turboprop engine called the PT9A-11 and is also continuing to seek certification of a new helicopter turboshaft powerplant called the PW220A.