Aircraft propellers are mainly divided into two types: fixed-pitch, which have a static blade angle optimized for a specific flight phase, and variable-pitch, which allow blade angle adjustments for ...

A Kansas woman met a grisly end in a freak accident after she backed into an airplane propeller while taking photos, multiple outlets have reported. On Oct. 26 at approximately 2:40 p.m., 37-year-old ...

Around 2:40 p.m. on Oct. 26, Sedgwick County Sheriff Deputies were dispatched to the Air Capital Drop Zone in Wichita, Kansas on reports of a public accident, according to a Facebook post from the ...

When one thinks of the average airplane, odds are that propellers are part of that mental image. They've been a crucial component of airplane construction from the moment air travel found its footing ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH/Gray News) - A woman in Kansas died after backing into a moving airplane propeller while taking photos, according to officials. According to Sedgwick County Sheriff Jeff Easter, 37 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DERBY, Kan. (KSNW) — A Wichita woman died after backing into an active airplane propeller in Derby Saturday afternoon. The ...

Designers of airplane propellers used to weep into their blueprints every time a jet plane roared over the plant. They feared that the fierce little jets, which have no propellers, were the wave of ...

Aiming a machine gun through a biplane's propellers was no easy feat. Then along came an invention that made it possible to ...