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But by the way, how did the planes of the First World War did to shoot the machine gun without destroying the propeller?

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To answer this question that has haunted our nights for a century, the Slow Mo Guys team has split a video showing how to fire without risking pulverizing their own plane.

If the First World War was an unnamed butcher's shop, it is also a first modern war.Armored, flame launcher, machine guns and chemical weapons are only a sample of armaments innovations.The "der des der" also marks the advent of military aviation.While the infantry was massacred in the mud of the trenches and no man’s land, the pilots, real “rock stars” of the time, delivered without merciless duels in the heavens aboard their fokker Dr..I and Nieuport 11.But how did the pilots do to fire on the opponent without shredding their propeller with the first burst?

Synchronized shots

Here, there is no question of incredible reflexes, even if it was necessary to be particularly skilful to go out victorious of an air duel, but of mechanics.Dutch aviator and entrepreneur Anthony Fokker developed a synchronization system during the conflict.The notch between the engine and the relaxation of the machine gun allows the shooting of the shooting, while the pneumatic system plays on the gas pressure in the engine.The latter then acts in turn on the relaxation of the weapon to settle his cadence.

As shown in the duo of Slow Mo Guys, the Vickers machine gun (dating from the First War) draws as soon as its line of view is no longer obstructed by a pale.When the two men deactivate synchronization, several bullets cross the propeller during the shooting session.If the blades do not disintegrate, we let you imagine the state after an hour of combat.

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1. November 22, 2016 at 18:31

   Very interesting article thank you

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2. November 22, 2016 at 18:43

   For info before the synchro they used a propeller with a armored deflector

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3. November 23, 2016 at 2:40

   I thought it was Roland Garros who had invented this process ...

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4. November 23, 2016 at 9:21

   Ditto I had learned in aeronautics history that Roland Garros had invented this system.

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5. November 23, 2016 at 5:39

   You have to have gold balls to dare to use this in full flight ...

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6. May 17, 2021 at 19:22

   This is not correct it was Carlo Felice Buzio who patented the invention of synchronization in 1915 Source: Book of Hubert Heyriès History of the Italian army

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