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believably, the aircraft's engine starts, not by having someone swing the propeller, but at the flick of a switch, which would have required the engine being...

a variable-pitch propeller is a type of propeller (airscrew) with blades that can be rotated around their long axis to change the blade pitch. A controllable-pitch...

was mated to a supersonic propeller, the XF-84H had the potential of setting the unofficial air speed record for propeller-driven aircraft, but was unable...

A variable-sweep wing, colloquially known as a "swing wing", is an airplane wing, or set of wings, that may be modified during flight, swept back and...

driving propellers with two or more blades. Current (2010) aircraft have the 74 kW (99 hp) Rotax 912 ULS flat-four with a two-bladed propeller. The Swing has...

compressor with his swing-piston design. Ultimately the exhaust would be used to drive a turbine, that power being used to drive a propeller to produce a turboprop...

engines turning propellers. The propellers are mounted perpendicular to the length of the bridge and allow it to swing parallel to the shore. The process only...

kinds of moorings: Swing moorings also known as simple or single-point moorings, are the simplest and most common kind of mooring. A swing mooring consists...

problems with their propellers. Only 55 Model 377s were built for airlines, along with the single prototype. A 377 was also converted into the Aero Spacelines...

This is a list of episodes of the American series American Pickers. The series premiered on January 18, 2010, on History. As of March 27, 2024,[update]...

engine Cam engine Revolving cylinder engine Swing-piston engine Thermo-magnetic motor Heat engine for a view of the thermodynamics involved in these engines...

eventually tangles with the propeller and slows down the sailboat. The rope gets stuck around his throat, strangling Joe. He manages to get the rope loose, but...

followed the day-to-day operations of American Jewelry and Loan, a family-owned and operated pawn shop in Detroit, Michigan's 8 Mile Road corridor. The series...

begin strapped to a propeller which is mounted to the side of a truck. As the truck speeds down a runway, thereby spinning the propeller, team members attempt...

significant difference was the incorporation of the camshaft and magneto drives into the propeller reduction gears at the front of the engine, rather than using...

the propeller during the early portion of the takeoff roll, and this sideways drift created disproportionate loads on the wheel opposite to the swing...

The bank effect (channel effect, bank suction, bank cushion, stern suction, ship-bank interaction) is the tendency of the stern of a ship to swing toward...

1942, the Spanish government arranged a manufacturing licence with Messerschmitt AG to build the Bf 109 G-2, although the DB 605A engines, propellers, instruments...

screw propeller, Great Britain was the first to combine these features in a large ocean-going ship. She was the first iron steamer to cross the Atlantic...

cargo. The entire nose could swing open to starboard for loading bulky items. In helicopter mode, the propeller drive was disconnected, and the flaps were...