Ah, the good ol’ interrupter gear system from the 1920s! It was designed to prevent those trigger-happy pilots from shooting up their plane’s propeller blades.
nuisance66 on
The museum is rad. They have a bunch of operational aircraft they’ve restored and fly around the area.
TravelingGonad on
That is the cruded demo I’ve ever seen of that lol! I saw the real ones at the USAF museum (Dayton, OH).
MaxSupernova on
Earlier versions were simply a metal v shaped wedge right on the rear of the propeller itself, so if a bullet did strike the propeller it was deflected to the side.
Cristoff13 on
These were actually “triggering” rather than “interrupting” systems. The machine gun was set to semi-automatic, and would fire when the propellor blades were in a safe position.
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I’d have hated to be the test pilot for that….
Ah, the good ol’ interrupter gear system from the 1920s! It was designed to prevent those trigger-happy pilots from shooting up their plane’s propeller blades.
The museum is rad. They have a bunch of operational aircraft they’ve restored and fly around the area.
That is the cruded demo I’ve ever seen of that lol! I saw the real ones at the USAF museum (Dayton, OH).
Earlier versions were simply a metal v shaped wedge right on the rear of the propeller itself, so if a bullet did strike the propeller it was deflected to the side.
These were actually “triggering” rather than “interrupting” systems. The machine gun was set to semi-automatic, and would fire when the propellor blades were in a safe position.