PUSHER PROPELLER - Inaccurate but accepted description of propeller mounted behind an engine. It acts aerodynamically as described under propeller, and is thus a tractor in action.
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Conventional push-pull designs, such as the Cessna Skymaster and Adam A500, have the engines mounted on the nacelle so that the aircraft's tail, suspended via twin booms, is behind the pusher propeller.
The machine had a two-blade pusher propeller and was powered by a twisted elastic band. When it was tested in the Tuileries Gardens in Paris on 18th August, 1871, it flew 131 feet (40 m) in 11 seconds.
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.
 See also: Aviation, Pusher, Propeller, Plane, Aircraft
  
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