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Subject: SloMo Video Reveals How WW1 Fighters Didn't Shoot Their Propellers Off
Date: 21 Nov 2016 19:23:26 -0800
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video ---> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysB-SH19WRQ
There are endless documentaries that explain the clever technology that allowed
World War I fighter planes to fire their machine guns through their propellers
without hitting the blades. But The Slow Mo Guys use their high-speed cameras so
Developed by a few countries, but first installed in a single-prop plane by the
to prevent a machine gun from firing while the propeller was in a position that
put it at risk of being hit.
less risk of the machine guns on these classic planes turning their props into
sawdust. But why put the machine guns up there anyways? By mounting the weapons
targeting when it came to dogfights.
But due to the constantly changing speed of spinning propellers and firing rate
aviation pioneer Anthony Fokker developed the Fokker synchronization gear that
instead fired the machine gun when it was safe to do so, giving the Germans a
technology.
The Slow Mo Guys also show what happens when the synchronization gear is
disengaged. The propeller randomly gets hit by the machine gun, and slowly
starts to collect bullet holes until it disintegrates in mid-air, although the
slow motion video was all filmed safely on the ground.
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