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Propeller in sentence

66 examples of Propeller in a sentence

You're not powering the propeller, you're powering the wheels.
And despite the aerodynamic interactions with these propeller blades, they're able to maintain stable flight.
I was afraid that they would kill us, and instead they understood, especially when I told them that I was trying to apply the same stratagem that Philip Johnson applied in 1934 when he wanted to make people understand the importance of design, and he took propeller blades and pieces of machinery and in the MoMA galleries he put them on white pedestals against white walls, as if they were Brancusi sculptures.
Conventional wisdom says that you need at least four fixed motor propeller pairs in order to fly, because there are four degrees of freedom to control: roll, pitch, yaw and acceleration.
Hexacopters and octocopters, with six and eight propellers, can provide redundancy, but quadrocopters are much more popular because they have the minimum number of fixed motor propeller pairs: four.
Doaa was holding on to the side of the boat as it sank, and watched in horror as a small child was cut to pieces by the propeller.
Bassem said to her, "Please let go, or you'll be swept in and the propeller will kill you, too."
It turns out that decades ago, skilled pilots were able to fly remote-controlled aircraft that had only two moving parts: a propeller and a tail rudder.
It has only one moving part, a propeller.
It has no flaps, no hinges, no ailerons, no other actuators, no other control surfaces, just a simple propeller.
In this Cold War classic, in the '90s, they were asked to produce the sound of the propeller of the submarine.
(Water splashes) And by looping and repeating that sound, they got this: (Propeller churns) So, creativity and technology put together in order to create the illusion that we're inside the submarine.
That's nothing new: that's a propeller clock; that's the rims that you can buy for your car.
Cockpit, propeller, engine.
People have been struggling for years to try and design a very fast rotating boat propeller that doesn't cavitate and literally wear away the metal and put holes in it, just like these pictures show.
And they've already found that by being more intelligent about better propeller design, you can reduce that noise by 90 percent.
Build a farmhouse out of a heap of timber, use the leftovers to glue a tower together with a propeller on it so that it vaguely resembles a windmill and... presto, we are in Holland!
This movie has a real crappy soundtrack that sounds like a propeller plane, which is really annoying!
He could turn himself into an airbag, he had a helicopter propeller, he could extend his arms, legs and neck, and many other weird and wonderful devices.
For example, after spending five years crisscrossing the US in their single-engine propeller plane, James and Deborah Fallows have published Our Towns, a deep and faithful account of local efforts to rebuild the country.
The blades of the propeller churned the waves with increasing speed, and the Abraham Lincoln moved out majestically amid a spectator-laden escort of some 100 ferries and tenders.
The furnaces were stoked; the propeller churned the waves more swiftly; the frigate skirted the flat, yellow coast of Long Island; and at eight o'clock in the evening, after the lights of Fire Island had vanished into the northwest, we ran at full steam onto the dark waters of the Atlantic.
Our course was set for the northwest, and the next day our frigate's propeller finally churned the waters of the Pacific.
Driven forward by its powerful propeller, the Abraham Lincoln headed straight for the animal.
The furnaces were urged into greater activity; our propeller did forty-three revolutions per minute, and steam shot from the valves.
"I think master had best not depend on it to any great extent!""What are you saying?""I'm saying that just as I jumped overboard, I heard the men at the helm shout, 'Our propeller and rudder are smashed!' ""Smashed?"
The propeller churned the waves with mathematical regularity, sometimes emerging above the surface and throwing phosphorescent spray to great heights.
But it was difficult to make yourself heard above the deafening beats of the propeller.
The vessel hadn't stirred, because I obviously would have felt its hull vibrating under the influence of the propeller.
It was divided, by function, into two parts: the first contained the cells for generating electricity, the second that mechanism transmitting movement to the propeller.
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