pusher propeller
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of pusher propeller
First recorded in 1950–55
Example Sentences
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Unlike most helicopters, Sikorsky’s bid uses two counter-rotating coaxial main rotors and a pusher propeller that the company says will allow for quicker acceleration and deceleration.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 29, 2022
A start-up in Bratislava, Slovakia, called Aeromobil has a prototype with a pusher propeller for flight and driveshafts turning the front wheels when driving.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2014
One of these, Terrafugia of Woburn, Mass., has flown a prototype with self-folding wings and a pusher propeller nestled between two tail booms.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2014
Almost 50 years to the day after the Wright Brothers twirled their first pusher propeller, Major Charles E. Yeager flew faster than any previous pilot or plane.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the storm passed, a blood-red butterflier, with a pusher propeller in the tail and a plastic bull head on the nose, descended in the young Sudan grass.
From Thy Rocks and Rills by Gilbert, Robert E.
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