航空专业英语AirplanesIntroduction飞机的螺旋桨.pptxVIP

Unit 2 Airplane’s introduction;The propeller converts the energy of a reciprocating engines rotating crankshaft into a thrust force.;Usually the engines are located in cowled pods hung beneath the wings, but some aircraft, like fighter aircraft, will have the engines buried in the fuselage.;Other configurations have sometime been used.;For instance, the Wright brothers 1903 Flyer had pusher propellers (propellers at the rear of the plane) and the elevators at the front of the aircraft.;Many fighter aircraft also combine the horizontal stabilizer and elevator into a single stabilator surface.;There are many possible aircraft configurations, but any configuration must provide for the four forces needed for flight.