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- Sinônimos
- airscrew
- Definição1
- A rotating airfoil driven by an airplane engine. The function of a propeller is the conversion of engine shaft torque into thrust to propel the airplane through the air. It produces thrust approximately perpendicular to its plane of rotation. The older but redundant term for propeller is airscrew.
- Fonte1
- KUMAR, Bharat (ed.). An illustrated dictionary of aviation. New York: McGraw-Hill, c2005. 752 p.
- Fonte2
- INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION. Annex 16 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation. Environmental protection. Volume I: aircraft noise. 6th ed. Montreal, 2011.
- Contexto
- An independent device accurate to within ±1 per cent shall be used for the measurement of propeller rotational speed to avoid orientation and installation errors when the test aeroplane is equipped with mechanical tachometers.
- Subárea1
- Aircraft Structure
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- Imagem
The feathered propellers of an RAF Hercules C.4.
Fonte: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hercules.propeller.arp.jpg
