A synchronization gear (also known as a gun synchronizer or interrupter gear) was a device enabling a single-engine tractor configuration aircraft to fire...
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George Constantinescu (section Synchronization gear)
gun synchronization gear allowed airplane-mounted guns to shoot between the spinning blades of the propeller. The Constantinesco synchronization gear (or...
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Concurrency control Interlocking Rendezvous problem Room synchronization Synchronization gear Video and audio engineering Genlock Jam sync SMPTE timecode...
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refer to: Part of a synchromesh manual transmission in an automobile Synchronization gear, a device that permits a gun to fire between the blades of a revolving...
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airplane, along with its synchronization gear and propeller was captured by the Germans. Meanwhile, the synchronization gear (called the Stangensteuerung...
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German fighter aircraft and the first aircraft to be fitted with a synchronization gear, enabling the pilot to fire a machine gun through the arc of the...
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attempt to fit into the holes on the desired gear. A modern synchromesh gearbox accomplishes this synchronization more efficiently. However, when the engine...
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gained fame by his invention of an improved version of a machine gun synchronization gear (a device allowing aircraft-mounted machine guns to fire through...
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Service.[citation needed] A better solution was a gun synchronizer, which utilized a synchronization gear to shoot only at instants when the line of fire was...
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by the Royal Flying Corps. While in Britain he worked on a true synchronization gear with the British inventor Scarff; this became the "Scarff-Dibovski"...
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still had to be respected, except for aircraft equipped with Daimler synchronization gear. The result was never entirely satisfactory and Austro-Hungarian...
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Scarff was also involved in the development of the Scarff-Dibovsky synchronization gear. Although it was a seemingly simple device, later attempts to emulate...
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this synchronization gear in 1915 transformed air combat and gave the Germans an early air superiority with the Fokker E.I, the first synchronized, forward-firing...
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Manual transmission (redirect from Synchronizer (automotive))
vehicle transmission system where gear changes require the driver to manually select the gears by operating a gear stick and clutch (which is usually...
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Anthony Fokker in the creation of the pioneering Stangensteuerung synchronization gear system during 1914-15, and re-commenced aircraft construction for...
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Nieuport 17 (category Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear)
Nieuport 16. Aside from early examples, it had the new Alkan-Hamy synchronization gear, permitting the use of a fuselage-mounted synchronised Vickers gun...
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rifle until a sufficient number of machine guns equipped with a synchronization gear became available, after which the M1908 was phased out of service...
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A gear or gearwheel is a rotating machine part typically used to transmit rotational motion and/or torque by means of a series of teeth that engage with...
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gear train or gear set is a machine element of a mechanical system formed by mounting two or more gears on a frame such that the teeth of the gears engage...
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incorporating a closed-bolt firing cycle, was suitable for use on a synchronization gear system-equipped aircraft for shooting through the aircraft's own...
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fixed, forward-firing mount forward of an aircraft's cockpit, with gun synchronization allowing safe firing through a spinning propeller's arc. The 105 mm...
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employed by the German Luftwaffe in WW II, in the unusually efficient synchronization gear that enabled machine guns and autocannon to be fired through the...
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fired through the hollow propeller shaft, avoiding the need for a synchronization gear, a feature used in future Hispano-Suiza military engines. Hispano-Suiza's...
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person to shoot down another plane, using a machine gun equipped with synchronization gear. July 7 An extremely overloaded International Railway (New York–Ontario)...
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fighter aircraft mounted their guns in the forward fuselage using a synchronization gear so that the bullets did not strike the propeller. In World War II...
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Timing belt (camshaft) (redirect from Timing gear)
called a cambelt) or timing chain or set of timing gears is a perishable component used to synchronize the rotation of the crankshaft and the camshaft....
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given that it was a reliable synchronizing gear. A brilliant achievement of the Romanian engineer. The Constantinescu gear began being used starting with...
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predictability and control and makes fitting open-bolt designs with synchronization gear to fire through the propeller blades difficult and often requiring...
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reasonably reliable synchronization was available for closed bolt weapons such as the Vickers gun there were reasons for avoiding synchronization. Even the best...
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each unit, with a fixed, forward-firing machine gun fitted with a "synchronization gear" that prevented the bullets from striking the propeller. The first...
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