Dowty Propellers (Gloucester, UK) announced Feb. 22 their manufacture of composite blades for civil and military propeller systems has been re-established, marking the company’s recovery from a fire ...

Combination of carbon, glass and epoxy resin produces a strong replacement for nickel/aluminum/bronze metal, the current propeller standard. Damage-tolerant reinforcing fabric strengthens highly ...

As part of Digital Propulsion (DigiProp), the National Composites Centre (NCC) has designed and manufactured a full-scale prototype of a propeller blade and its manufacturing system for turboprop ...

Collins Aerospace says the eight-blade NP2000 composite propellers on the Lockheed Martin C-130H enable more traction for a given propeller diameter. Credit: Collins Aerospace Propeller manufacturers ...

Hartzell’s presence at NBAA-BACE showcases the company’s deep investments in developing advanced carbon fiber propellers, which deliver cutting-edge improvements in performance, efficiency and value.” ...

The 11 winners of the latest JEC Composites Innovation Awards were announced during the JEC World Premiere, which took place ...

BROCKWORTH, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dowty Propellers today inaugurated its new facility in Brockworth, England to provide a modern operation for the company’s development, manufacture and support of ...

MT-Propeller Entwicklung GmbH has received EASA supplemental type certificate for the 3-blade scimitar composite propeller MTV-9-B/200-58 on the Gipps Aero GA8. The STC is also valid for the GA8 TC320 ...

The US Air Force is nearing the end of a flight test programme to measure the performance of Hamilton Sundstrand eight-blade NP2000 composite propellers for the Lockheed Martin C-130. Since May, ...

House lawmakers are looking to bar the Air Force from ditching any of its nearly 300 C-130 Hercules airlift planes as part of fiscal 2022 defense policy bill released July 27. The House Armed Services ...

Its history of firsts-to-market includes the all-composite propeller blade and full-authority digital propeller control. More than 23,000 advanced composite blades have been delivered to date by Dowty ...