propeller clearance

The high wing and high engine position give good propeller clearance in achieving that last goal.

This increased propeller clearance, but also raised the ARV's thrust line.

The propeller clearance was such that there was little danger of it striking the ground during take off, even with an exaggerated tail-up attitude.

The taildragger arrangement was common during the early propeller era, as it allows more room for propeller clearance.

This feature allowed a more pointed nose on the ARV, at the cost of slightly reduced propeller clearance.

Differences with the earlier MB 02 include longer main landing gear legs to allow more propeller clearance and an aerodynamic cowling.

Due to the increased propeller clearance on tailwheel aircraft less stone chip damage will result from operating a conventional geared aircraft on rough or gravel airstrips.

The airframe was made of plastic and composite materials, mostly Kevlar, and the UAV had retractable stiltlike tricycle landing gear to ensure propeller clearance.

In photographs the engine was uncowled though early plans show a Townend ring-type cowling; it was mounted as high as possible to provide propeller clearance on rough landing sites.

In order for the central propeller to clear the fuselage the central engine was mounted higher than the others and the chord of the upper wing reduced to provide a trailing edge cut-away for propeller clearance.

Wallis or I stood by the car throughout each trial watching the pointers that we had arranged to indicate the ship's movement and the propeller clearance; we had a system of signalling to stop all engines if the surging of the ship grew dangerously large.

There are obvious aerodynamic efficiencies, chiefly low drag, in putting the engine of a propeller driven landplane or floatplane in its nose, but flying boats sit low on the water and propeller clearance is a problem even when the aircraft is stationary.

Two of the three 500 hp (373 kW) Farman 12 Wd W-12 water-cooled inline engines were mounted as close to the centre line as propeller clearance would allow, in tractor configuration; the third was mounted on the centre line as a pusher.