The nose of the aircraft has a freely rotating propeller attached to a small ring. The entire nose can be pulled away from the body revealing a conical hole where a pencil can be inserted and ...

Small aircraft get a bad rap. Compared to larger commercial airliners, little propeller-driven airplanes are cramped and bumpy. What’s worse, several recent airplane crashes involving small ...

Around 2.40 p.m. Saturday, Amanda Gallagher, 37, was taking photos at an airfield just outside of Wichita when she hit the plane’s propeller while the aircraft was on the ground, according to ...

For something so important, it's a deceptively low-profile piece of equipment: a handful of small metal rods on the wings known as static wicks. Static electricity could interfere with an airplane ...

Various costs are associated with owning a small plane compared to renting a similar aircraft. ... propeller, avionics, and ... The average annual cost to own an airplane is $30,000.

Today’s Top Pick at FLYINGMag.com daily. Today’s Top Pick is a 1952 De Havilland DHC-2 Beaver. When the De Havilland Aircraft ...

A Wichita woman died Saturday after backing into a moving airplane propeller in Derby, an official said. The Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office identified the victim Monday as Amanda Gallagher, 37 ...

The airplane dispute began in 2014, six years before Epic’s E1000 model was approved for sale by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, when the two named plaintiffs each put down a fully ...

A student at Georgia Southern University died after being struck by the propeller of a small plane. The plane landed safely but the student died in an incident following the landing.

A small propeller plane made an emergency landing in a field near Indian River Road and Indian Plantation Drive in Virginia Beach on Wednesday night, according to the city’s fire department.

A 37-year-old woman died on Saturday after she walked backward into an airplane propeller at an airfield in Kansas. Amanda Gallagher from Wichita died when she was struck by the active propeller.