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 ...
INNSBRUCK, Austria, Oct. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pratt & Whitney Canada, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, announced today that Transport Canada Civil Aviation has type certified the PW127XT-L regional ...
Hybrid-electric propulsion is the next major technology paradigm for regional aviation, says Pratt & Whitney, which is developing a Dash 8-100 flight demonstrator with De Havilland. Credit: Pratt & ...
There is a saying that goes something on the lines of “if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it.” Although generally a statement to live by, this phrase could at times lead to stagnation and hinder the ...
Textron Aviation's Denali took flight over Kansas for the first time this week with GE Aviation's new Catalyst turboprop engine married to the Denali airframe. While most of us were getting ready for ...
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 ...
Design of the Rolls-Royce Dart turboprop engine began in April 1945 and was completed by June 1946. The engine first ran in July 1946, and first flew in the nose of a Lancaster testbed aircraft in ...