As boring as propeller designs may seem to the average person, occasionally there’s a bit of a dust-up in the media about a ‘new’ design that promises at least a few percent improvement in performance ...

A relatively young personal aviation company, LEO Flight, has unveiled a new personal eVTOL called the jetBike.

This video follows the process of building a custom boat designed to test and compare propeller efficiency under real-world ...

Despite being integral to aviation for more than a century, propellers have changed remarkably little since the Wright Brothers. A team at MIT’s Lincoln Lab has developed a new propeller shape that ...

Building a large ship requires a massive amount of engineering work. Even the smallest parts require lots of time and effort to design and build. Case in point: the ship's propeller. The prop has to ...

We like unconventional vehicles here at The Drive, from massive turbine-powered semi-trucks to huge walking robots from the 1980s designed to traverse any terrain. If it’s weird, we’re on board, and ...