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Pages in category "Engine-over-wing aircraft" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. AAC Angel;
A pusher aircraft is a type of aircraft using propellers placed behind the engines. Pushers may be classified according to lifting surfaces layout (conventional or 3 surface, canard, joined wing, tailless and rotorcraft) as well as engine/propeller location and drive. For historical interest, pusher aircraft are also classified by date.
Some jet fighters use podded engines, typically under and mounted directly to the wing. An example was the Messerschmitt Me 262, which had the nacelles mounted directly to the undersides of the wings, with no pylons being used. The A-10 Thunderbolt II ground-attack aircraft uses fuselage-mounted podded
A pusher aircraft is a type of aircraft using propellers placed behind the engines and may be classified according to engine/propeller location and drive as well as the lifting surfaces layout (conventional or 3 surface, canard, joined wing, tailless and rotorcraft), Some aircraft have a Push-pull configuration with both tractor and pusher ...
Push-pull designs have the engines mounted above the wing as Dornier flying boats or more commonly on a shorter fuselage than conventional one, as for Rutan Defiant or Voyager canard designs. Twin boomers such as the Cessna Skymaster and Adam A500 have the aircraft's tail suspended via twin booms behind the pusher propeller.
Fixed-wing aircraft can have different numbers of wings: Monoplane: one wing plane. Since the 1930s most aeroplanes have been monoplanes. The wing may be mounted at various positions relative to the fuselage: Low wing: mounted near or below the bottom of the fuselage. Mid wing: mounted approximately halfway up the fuselage.
The Hawker Siddeley Trident 3B not only has two engines in rear fuselage external nacelles, but also has other two engines mounted vertically in the tail. The aircraft was initially designed as trijet, but the Trident 3B added a fourth engine as additional power was required by the stretched fuselage, increased wing chord and raised gross weight.
In these installations, the engines are either mounted in nacelles or the fuselage on tailless aircraft, or buried in the wing on flying wings, driving propellers behind the trailing edge of the wing, often by extension shaft. Almost without exception, flexwing aircraft, paramotors, and powered parachutes use a pusher configuration.