And indeed, Orville flies, thanks to plastic propellers and a remote-control engine stuffed inside his belly.
Toshiba illegally exported to the Soviet Union sophisticated machine tools needed to manufacture advanced submarine propellers.
The x3 has a five-bladed main rotor and a pair of propellers on two short wings.
The deal comes as Makani carries out the first fully autonomous flights of robot kites bearing its power-generating propellers.
All air trapped during this procedure is then directed through an electric cooling compressor situated behind the propellers.
To further enhance propulsion and reduce CO2 emissions, the ships will feature positioning fins forward of the propellers.
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About half-way down it had a circular platform, like the brim of a hat, set with small propellers.
The Makani kite is a black wing with four propellers and a tether that doubles as a power cord.
Anyone's longitudinal luck can suddenly go south: Batteries burn up, propellers get tangled in lobster traps, lightning strikes sailboat masts.
Its engine and machinery business carries out the manufacture of diesel engines, propellers and crankshafts, industrial robots, pumps and others.
Enter George Antheil, an American avant-garde composer whose works were known for using unorthodox instruments such as player-pianos, airplane propellers and sirens.
The ship must stay perfectly still while drilling and does so using six thrusters with 15-foot-diameter propellers that can rotate 360 degrees.
But the fuselage, the wings, the engines and propellers are still there.
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Mediterranean telecoms cables have suffered disruptions several times in recent years, but they have usually been attributed to accidents involving ship propellers.
The British Royal Navy asked the physicist to find out why cavitating bubbles were causing damage to the propellers of its vessels.
Consider the case nearly two decades ago of the Soviet Union's illegal acquisition of tools needed to produce very quiet submarine propellers.
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But now, even as regional airlines continue to phase out their older turboprops, a new generation of planes with propellers is taking off.
These are propellers mounted in transverse tunnels in the hull, to help position the craft and hold her stable while alongside a rig.
Its landmark event is the Man-Powered Flight, for which contestants build rudimentary wings and propellers and hurl themselves off the harbour wall, flapping wildly.
RA-180 will all be contained within the cigar-shaped rigid structure, which will be powered by four propellers and have a top speed of 150kph.
Then they realized people would have to fly without the reassuring blur of propellers turning and dropped the jet engine like a hot potato.
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The Shannon class is the RNLI's most advanced lifeboat and runs on water jets instead of propellers, making it more manoeuvrable in the water.
The propellers worked wonders, (to see video, click here) and will likely be used to help bring cages to and from shore for now.
The nets, some of which extend larger than a football field, can also tangle the propellers of boats and pose a danger to scuba divers.
That claim belongs to the 36, 000-ton USS New Mexico battleship, which was commissioned in 1918 and used electric motors to to drive its propellers.
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One could simply drive up to and into a body of water and keep on going, thanks to dual outboard propellers and a (mostly) watertight body.
The drill ship is equipped with computer-controlled thrusters, swiveling propellers, that can keep it in position in any kind of inclement weather, up to a hurricane.
It's powered by a hydrogen internal combustion engine that turns a 44-kilowatt electric generator that runs eight propellers and whatever communications equipment is loaded on board.
The company will now be operating a temporary revised timetable using its one working hovercraft until work to refit the propellers on the second is complete.
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