Pusher Engine: An aero-engine which drives a pusher propeller, that is to say, which propels the aeroplane forward by means of a propeller situated aft of the wing.
The 1930s Supermarine Walrus was a seaplane with a single pusher engine.
The details and info on building and flying of an autogyro of the Benson or Wallis type e.g. a pusher engine and propeller.
By: Bob Lane ...
However if the engine is mounted above the fuselage the rotating slipstream tube will be higher relative to the fin and rudder and the swing effect may be lessened or reversed: aircraft with a pusher engine mounting are subject to the same effect.
 See also: Direct, Pitch, Pusher, Drag, Front
  
|
RSS
