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The Helicron is an open-wheel car that used a propeller as its drive. The Helicron was abandoned in the late 1930s, but was restored after its barn find in 2000. [1] In the same year, the car was permitted by the French government to drive on the French roads. [2] The car currently resides in the Lane Motor Museum and is on display, as a ...
1871 Planophore A Farman MF.11, showing the classic Farman configuration with engine between tail booms Buhl A-1 Autogyro, the first pusher autogyro The post-WWII Convair B-36 was unusual in its size, era, number of engines, and combining both propeller and jet propulsion, with six radial piston and four jet engines Typical of many UAVs, the General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper has a propeller at the ...
Quadcopter coaxial – OnyxStar FOX-C8 XT Observer from AltiGator. In order to allow more power and stability at reduced weight, a quadcopter, like any other multirotor can employ a coaxial rotor configuration. In this case, each arm has two motors running in opposite directions (one facing up and one facing down). [citation needed]
In 1946, the Fulton FA-2 Airphibian was an American-made flying car designed by Robert Edison Fulton Jr., it was an aluminum-bodied car, built with independent suspension, aircraft-sized wheels, and a six-cylinder 165 hp engine. The fabric wings were easily attached to the fuselage, converting the car into a plane.
For two-wheeled vehicles such as motorcycles and bicycles, the term is used to describe vehicles that can power the front as well as the back wheel. The term 2x2 is also used to denote two total wheels with both being driven. 2x2 vehicles are typically either mechanically driven, via a chain, belt, or shaft, or are hydraulic-driven. This scheme ...
The Cora has 12 electric motors for hovering at two fixed wings, each with 6 propellers (with near vertical axis), three in front of the wing and three behind. For horizontal flight there is a separately driven pressure propeller. An overall rescue system is provided for emergencies. The first flight was on March 13, 2018, in Mountain View ...
Ford Trimotor interior. In the early 1920s, Henry Ford, along with a group of 19 others including his son Edsel, invested in the Stout Metal Airplane Company.Stout, a bold and imaginative salesman, sent a mimeographed form letter to leading manufacturers, blithely asking for $1,000 with the line, "For your one thousand dollars you will get one definite promise: You will never get your money ...
The G 109Ar was a modification used on 2 Grob 109A by the Aero Club Valkenburg of two aircraft with a Rotax [8] boxer-type engine for increased performance on short runways and reliability. The nose of the plane is longer than that of the regular G 109A, the engine covers are shaped differently to house the engine and its air inlets and improve ...