Tractor Propeller: A propeller designed to pull on its propshaft. A tractor propeller is usually fitted in the nose or in the front of engine nacelles in the wings and is distinct from a pusher propeller which propels the aeroplane and is thus ...
TRACTOR PROPELLER - Propeller mounted forward of the engine. (See propeller.)
TRAILING-EDGE - The rear edge of an aerofoil.
The design featured retractable wheeled landing gear, a tractor propeller, an internal engine and a boat-shaped hull (Mons. Du Temple had been a French Naval officer). He believed that a 6 h.p.
Blériot now built a monoplane with a tractor propeller. The plane had low cantilever wings, covered fuselage, a rudder, and a large, all-moving tailplane. The enclosed Antoinette engine drove a four-blade metal propeller.
An early example of a "push-pull" aircraft was the Caproni Ca.1 which had two wing-mounted tractor propellers and one centre-mounted pusher propeller.
Type I water-cooled engines of 150 horsepower each were provided on the first ships of this series but these have been replaced on later types with two Wright J1 engines, which are nine-cylinder radial air-cooled types driving tractor propellers 9 ...
 See also: Tractor, Propeller, Plane, Aviation, Chine
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