The XF-84H was an ambitious project to reverse-engineer a jet-powered F-84 into a prop-driven aircraft capable of achieving ...

I was watching air racing superstar Steven Hinton attempt to do what his father had done 38 years before: set the three-kilometer speed record for piston-engine, propeller-driven aircraft.

The larger the prop's diameter, the faster the tip will move for a given rpm. Let's use the world's fastest commercial turboprop as an example: the Daher TBM 900 family. The latest aircraft ...