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How did machine guns fire through the propeller arc without breaking the propeller, on a single prop airplane?
I'm curious about how machine guns were able to fire through the propeller arc without breaking the propeller on single prop airplanes. Can you shed some light on this topic?
Yes, of course! The solution to this problem was first developed by the French aviation pioneer, Roland Garros, in 1915. He attached metal deflectors to his planes' propeller blades that would deflect any bullets fired by the machine gun. This idea was further developed by the British engineer, F. W. Meredith, who came up with the idea of synchronizing the machine gun's firing with the rotation of the propeller.