Early airplanes often flew with propellers mounted behind the pilot, pushing the aircraft forward rather than pulling it ...

When you picture a propeller-driven aircraft, you probably imagine a single engine plane with the propeller spinning at the front. There's a good reason for that, as the front-facing design has proven ...

The Convair B-36 Peacemaker was created to solve a Cold War problem no other aircraft could handle: flying nuclear weapons across oceans without refueling. This video explains why its engineers chose ...

The SB>1 Defiant has not one but two rotors on top, and in the rear, a pusher propeller designed to give it high-speed flight. Jon Skillings is an editorial director at CNET, where he's worked since ...