Lewis sanding the hub on a propeller—Day 3 of the task—meant for a Lycoming engine. The business: Culver Props specializes in making custom, fixed-pitch, two-blade, wood propellers.

The Sensenich Brothers Propeller Company meets almost the entire demand for Federal Aviation Administration-certified fixed-pitch wooden propellers in the United States. “We still carve about ...

Cargo shipping services firm Sallaum Lines is upgrading its three pure car/truck carrier (PCTC) vessels with Wärtsilä's EnergoFlow solution and Fixed Pitch Propellers (FPP). This initiative ...

Barring the smallest manned airplanes, most aircraft that are pulled around by a prop have variable pitch propellers. The reason for this is simple efficiency. Internal combustion engines are most ...