Propeller

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

In aeronautics, an aircraft propeller, also called an airscrew, is an aircraft propulsion device that converts rotary motion from an engine or other power source into a swirling slipstream that generates thrust.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Propeller (aeronautics)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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