Synchronization gear
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synchronization-gear-173-10896179
title:
Synchronization gear
text:
A synchronization gear was a device enabling a single-engine tractor configuration aircraft to fire its forward-firing armament through the arc of its spinning propeller without bullets striking the blades. This allowed the aircraft, rather than the gun, to be aimed at the target. There were many practical problems, mostly arising from the inherently imprecise nature of an automatic gun's firing, the great velocity of the blades of a spinning propeller, and the very high speed at which any gear
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Device to synchronise the firing of a warplane's automatic guns with its spinning propeller
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronization_gear
date created:
2003-01-26T00:03:10Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T12:24:29Z
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