The new Air Haifa plane is made by the American aerospace firm Pratt & Whitney, model ATR-72-600. It's a small plane because the runway at Haifa Airport is only 1,326 meters long, allowing only ...

(Feb. 18, 2020) The father of a 26-year-old pilot who safely landed a small plane in a blueberry patch in Saanich after the engine quit and the propeller fell off calls his son a hero.

This pilot gets props for a great landing. Mark Pennell was enjoying a leisurely flight in his Rans S-10 Sakota, flying around Camillus in upstate New York recently, when his single-engine plane lo… ...

This produces a thrust similar to the wind produced by a propeller, but without the noise or moving parts. The key to the system was a specially developed ultralight 40,000-volt power converter.