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The airline alerted Dowty Propellers, a GE Aerospace-led UK manufacturer, which found damage to the internal bearings of the propellers.

From BBC • Jul. 8, 2025

Propellers are visible in several of the pictures, dating the older planes to before the jet age.

From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2022

Last week Hamilton Standard Propellers Co. told about its long, desperate, and, it thinks, successful efforts to bring propellers up to date.

From Time Magazine Archive

The bank’s support for U.S. exports has benefited businesses including aircraft giant Boeing of Chicago and Hartzell Propellers of Piqua, Ohio.

From Washington Post

Propellers churned; handkerchiefs fluttered, and, up on deck, the balls of yarn began to spin.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides