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Divers Over the Side - "There are divers over the side, do not rotate screws, cycle rudders, operate sonar, take suction from or discharge to the sea, blow flood or vent any tanks, or operate any underwater equipment without first contacting the Chief Engineer and the diving supervisor." (Passed every fifteen minutes)

AEREON 26

This second propeller was a "virtually unique" example, made of lemonwood, that had been used by Igor Bensen in an unsuccessful attempt on the autogyro speed record.

Al Holbert

That evening, Holbert was fatally injured when his privately owned propeller driven Piper PA-60 aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff near Columbus, Ohio when a clamshell door was not closed.

Bård Mikkelsen

He also succeeded Idar Ulstein as chairman of the board in Ulstein Verft, Ulstein Propeller, Ulstein Bergen and Ulstein Brattvaag.

Bell XFL Airabonita

The aircraft had provisions for a single 37 mm (1.46 in) Oldsmobile T9 cannon which could be replaced by a .50 in (12.7 mm) Browning M2/AN machine gun through the propeller shaft and two .30 in (7.62 mm) machine guns in the fuselage nose.

BFW M.21

The M.21 was powered by an uncowled radial engine, either the 96 hp (72 kW) Siemens Sh 11 (M.21a) or the 125 hp (93 kW) Sh 12 (M.21b) driving a two-bladed propeller.

Blackburn First Monoplane

The 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m) propeller was mounted just below the wing's leading edge and driven by a chain to the 35 hp (26 kW) Green engine below.

Blade element theory

Blade element theory (BET) is a mathematical process originally designed by William Froude (1878), David W. Taylor (1893) and Stefan Drzewiecki to determine the behavior of propellers.

CANT Z.1010

The aircraft was powered by a version of the de Havilland Gipsy Major 4-cylinder inverted inline engine, licence built by Alfa Romeo, which produced 90 kW (120 hp) and drove a two blade propeller.

Caproni Ca.331

Its original Piaggio propellers proved inadequate, but their replacement with Alfa Romeo-built propellers in 1941 resulted in the aircraft having improved performance which, in fact, exceeded expectations.

Chyetverikov

Unemployedin 1933, Chyetverikov turned to the division for design for gliders and propeller-driven sleighs (OSGA) of NII GVF(Naoochno-Issledovatel'skiy Institoot Grazdahnskovo Vozdooshnovo Flota - scientific test institute for civil air fleet) with the proposal for creation of aircraft for the submarines (SPL and Hydro-1).

Courchevel

Larger propeller aircraft such as the Twin Otter and Dash 7 (carrying up to 50 people) have been regular users of the airport over the years, but have since been phased out of use and smaller Cessnas and helicopters are often seen sitting on the tarmac nowadays.

Creaton UAV

T10 Hornet (Da-Huang-Feng or Dahuangfeng, 大黄蜂) is a micro air vehicle (MAV) that resemble a Boeing Insitu ScanEagle, but propulsion of T10 is provided a two-blade propeller driven by a tractor electric motor mounted in the nose, as opposed to the pusher engine at the rear end of the empennage in ScanEagle.

E. L. B. Hurulle

He inducted the Trident Passenger Jet Airplane to Air Ceylon thus taking Air Ceylon from a propeller driven era to a Jet engine era.

Fahlin SF-2 Plymocoupe

The propeller was driven directly from the crankshaft via the gearbox using a 2:1 gear-reduction ratio which enabled the engine to operate at full power while accommodating the operational requirements of the propeller which necessitated the slower maximum rotational speed of 1800 rpm.

Flathead engine

A new arrival is the Belgian D-Motor LF26, a compact 2.7-litre flat-four aero-engine that has direct drive to a propeller, rather than a reduction gearbox.

Focke-Wulf Fw 190

All were armed with six 7.92 mm (.312 in) MG 17 machine guns — four synchronised weapons, two in the forward fuselage and one in each wing root, supplemented by a free-firing MG 17 in each wing, outboard of the propeller disc.

Fokker E.I

This unremarkable and derivative design was, however, transformed into a formidable fighter when it was fitted with the newly developed synchronizer gear, the Fokker Stangensteuerung, firing a single 7.92 mm (.312 in) Parabellum LMG 14 or Spandau lMG 08 machine gun through the spinning propeller.

Grumman XF5F Skyrocket

The XF5F Skyrocket was the only propeller fighter aircraft flown by the Blackhawks in Quality Comics monthly title Military Comics, which ran throughout World War II.

Hawker Sea Fury

On 8 August 1952, Lieutenant Peter "Hoagy" Carmichael, of 802 Squadron, flying Sea Fury WJ232 from HMS Ocean, shot a MiG-15 down, making him one of only a few pilots of a propeller driven aircraft to shoot down a jet.

Ivoprop

Zdarsky started the company after carving his own propeller for a homebuilt ultralight trike that he flew from Cold War Czechoslovakia, over the Iron Curtain to Vienna in 1984.

John T. Parsons

These developments were done in collaboration with his employee Frank L. Stulen, who Parsons hired when he was head of the Rotary Wing Branch of the Propeller Lab at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, in April 1946.

JS Group

The company offered charter services in Pakistan under the name JS Air, using a small fleet of propeller driven Beech aircraft with a maximum capacity of about 20 passengers.

Kawasaki Ki-10

Armament consisted of two 7.7 mm (.303 in) Type 89 machine guns, synchronized to fire through the propeller.

Kirkwall Airport

On 25 October 1979, Vickers Viscount G-BFYZ of Alidair was damaged beyond economic repair when the aircraft departed the runway after #4 propeller struck the runway.

Konstfack

A & E Design, Katja Pettersson, Front (arty designers), Veryday (formerly Ergonomidesign), No Picnic, Propeller, Transformator Design.

Lockheed LC-130

In the 1974/75 season during an open field takeoff on Dome C a JATO bottle on an LC-130F came loose and damaged the wing and one propeller thus causing an aborted takeoff.

Lockheed Model 8 Sirius

The Lockheed Model 8 Sirius was a single engine, propeller-driven monoplane designed and built by Jack Northrop and Gerard Vultee while they were engineers at Lockheed in 1929, at the request of Charles Lindbergh.

Menasco Unitwin 2-544

In mid-1935 Lockheed's chief engineer, Hall Hibbard, began discussing with Al Menasco, the president of the Menasco Motors Company in Burbank, the merits of coupling two Menasco C6S Super Buccaneer six-cylinder in-line engines mounted side-by-side, driving a single propeller.

Morane-Saulnier N

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Motorboat

Although the screw propeller had been added to an engine (steam engine) as early as the 18th century in Birmingham, England by James Watt, the petrol engine only came about in the later part of the 19th century, at which point Frederick William Lanchester recognized the potential of combining the two components to create the first all British powerboat; tested in Oxford, England, the powerboat was born.

North Carolina Aviation Museum

Beechcraft T-34 Mentor - a propeller-driven, single-engined, military trainer aircraft derived from the Beechcraft Model 35 Bonanza.

Propfan

Since the inside of the propeller is moving slower than the outside, the blade is progressively more swept toward the outside, leading to a curved shape similar to a scimitar - a practice that was first used as far back as 1909, in the Chauvière make of two-bladed wood propeller used on the Blériot XI.

Ram air

Ram air turbine -- a propeller used by aircraft to generate power

Ravenswood, Ipswich

A number of pieces of public art have been installed: "Formation" by Rick Kirby at the entrance, designed to commemorate the areas links with aviation; "Handstanding" by Martin Heron near the school; "Green Wind 2" by Diane Maclean as a focal point beyond the end of Downham Boulevard on the Tump; and "Propeller" by Harry Gray has been placed adjacent to the green.

Rhein Flugzeugbau RW 3 Multoplan

The 65 h.p. Porsche 678/0 engine was buried in the centre fuselage and drove a pusher propeller mounted in a vertical slot between the fin and rudder.

Richard Dempsey

Returning to Propeller he played Hermoine in The Winters Tale alongside Henry V at Hampstead Theatre in London and toured the productions to Australia, New Zealand and China.

Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.7

It was an-unequal span biplane with a fixed tailskid landing gear and powered by a nose-mounted 120hp (89kW) Beardmore engine driving a four-bladed propeller.

Ruiyueqin UAV

507E electrically powered UAV is a fixed wing that resembles a scaled down version of Northrop X-4 Bantam without the inlets because instead of jet engines used on X-4, 507E is powered by a propeller driven pusher engine mounted at the empennage.

Saint Martin

There is a small airport on the French side of the island at Grand Case, L'Espérance Airport for small propeller planes serving neighbouring Caribbean islands.

Scott Ol' Ironsides

In 1985 the prototype aircraft was restored and re-engined with an Continental O-200 and Sterba wooden propeller.

Shvetsov M-11

It was also used for the up-engined GAZ-98K aerosani winter-used sled in a pusher configuration (as airboats use today), and as the standard powerplant for the similar NKL-26 propeller-driven sledges during the World War II years.

Syrian Air

Syrian Airlines was established in autumn 1946, with two propeller aircraft and started to fly between Damascus, Aleppo and Deir ez-Zour and Al-Qamishli.

Tenix

Another arm of non-core business, Tenix Aviation, formerly known as Rossair that offered a range of aircraft, propeller and component maintenance services to the aviation industry worldwide, was sold in December 2008 to TAE Australia.

Torque effect

The torque effect experienced in helicopters and single propeller-powered aircraft is a result of Isaac Newton's third law of motion that "for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction"

Tsunami Racer

First flown August 17, 1986 by test pilot Steve Hinton, Tsunami was designed specifically to break the 3 km world speed record for propeller driven aircraft and to compete in the Unlimited class at the Reno Air Races.

United States Revenue Cutter Service

The board recommended keeping only one of the propeller driven steam cutters, the USRC Mahoning.

USS Pinta

USS Pinta was an iron-hulled screw tug of the United States Navy, launched on October 29, 1864, by Reaney, Son & Archbold, Chester, Pennsylvania, completed in October 1865, and commissioned there, Lt. Comdr.

Yakovlev Yak-3

Like the early Yak-1, it had a 20 mm ShVAK cannon firing through the nose spinner and twin 7.62 mm ShKAS machine guns on the fuselage(firing through the propeller), but was also fitted with a ShVAK cannon in each wing.


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