How WWI Fighter Planes Fired Through Their Propellers
How WWI Fighter Planes Fired Through Their Propellers
Nov 22, 2016
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The amount of tech invented during WW1 was staggering. In this video Gavin and Dan take a closer look at the sync gear that helped fighter pilots shoot past their propellers. | The Slow Mo Guys
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The amount of tech invented during WW1 was staggering. In this video Gavin and Dan take a closer look at the sync gear that helped fighter pilots shoot past their propellers. | The Slow Mo Guys
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The British made “pusher” planes because they didn’t know the forward-firing synchronous mechanism. About 1915 a German Fokker got lost and landed at a British airstrip. The British soldiers took apart the plane and noted the synchronization gear. A British war reporter happened to be there and was excited that Britain would now have that tech. After months and seeing no word of a new British fighter, he asked around. The report on the Fokker’s gear had been stuffed into a filing cabinet &forgot
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unfairai on Instagram: "This reel explains the synchronization gear, a mechanical masterpiece that allowed pilots to fire machine guns through spinning propellers. The 3D animation reveals how the gun is linked to the engine's crankshaft via a cam. ​This system ensures the weapon fires only when the propeller blades are safely out of the way. By timing bullets to pass through the rotating "gaps," pilots could aim their entire aircraft at targets without shooting themselves down. It’s an elegant
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It sounds impossible at first. How can a machine gun fire straight through a spinning propeller… without destroying it? Early fighter planes solved this with pure mechanical engineering. They built a synchronization gear that linked the gun directly to the engine’s rotation. The system only allowed bullets to fire in the tiny gaps between the propeller blades. If a blade was in front — the gun simply wouldn’t shoot. At thousands of RPM, every shot had to be perfectly timed. Not luck. Not magic.
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Aviator_Raza on Instagram: "Early fighter planes prevented bullets from striking their own propellers by using a synchronization gear connected directly to the engine. This mechanism precisely timed each shot so the gun fired only in the split-second gaps between rotating propeller blades. Whenever a blade passed in front of the barrel, the gear temporarily blocked the gun from firing; when the space was clear, it allowed the bullet to exit safely. This mechanical timing let pilots shoot straigh
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