These strangely-shaped twisted-toroid propellers look like a revolutionary (sorry) advance for the aviation and marine sectors. Radically quieter than traditional propellers in both air and water ...

The basic configuration of traditional propellers has not fundamentally changed since the first powered flight by the wright brothers in 1903 .</ Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT عربي ...

By reducing drag and increasing efficiency, toroidal propellers could improve aircraft performance and reduce fuel consumption. While retrofitting a boat with a toroidal propeller can be costly, ...

February 23, 2023: Advances in technology often occur by accident, when you were looking for or developing something else. Such was the case with a new propeller design that sought to reduce the ...

Discover why this innovative toroidal propeller is attracting attention. By altering propeller design, we may have unlocked a way to enhance efficiency and reduce noise in drones and various ...

The toroidal boat propeller pair installed. (Credit: rctestflight) 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 ...

The toroidal propeller, one of the Lab's @RD100Awards winners, has a unique, closed-form propeller design that makes it a significantly quieter alternative to common multirotor propellers on ...