Sentence examples for inner propeller from inspiring English sources

The center engine room housed one set of turbines that drove the two inner propeller shafts.

At 06:10 the German battlecruisers had reached a position approximately 60 km southwest of Bergen when the battlecruiser lost her inner starboard propeller, which severely damaged the ship's engines.

The forward-most engine room powered the starboard outer shaft, the second turbine drove the outer screw on the port side, the third engine supplied power to the inner starboard propeller, and the fourth turbine drove the port-side inner screw.

Four direct drive steam turbines were proposed, as in the Bretagne class; the other option was a hybrid system that used a pair of direct drive turbines on the inner two propeller shafts, and two reciprocating steam engines on the outer shafts for low-speed cruising.

Her three-bladed propellers were 12 feet in diameter on the inner shafts while the outer propellers were 11 feet in diameter.

He used a wound-up inner tube to power the propeller and showed perhaps greater ingenuity by having a friend test-fly it -- from an elementary-school fire escape three stories off the ground.

A device with a 30 cm stationary outer spherical shell had flows driven by impellers, propellers, or an inner sphere (Sisan et al. 2004).

Though the blades and body are plastic ("Thank God", says my skin and every other surface that we clipped with a propeller last night), the inner construction of the helicopter is all metal.

The Lorentz forces that result allow the inner sphere to act like a magnetic propeller, grabbing on to the fluid and forcing it to spin with it rather than with the outer sphere.

The article deals with development of a special device intended for measuring of loading of an inner part of a very small variable pitch propeller.

The shock shook her propeller shafts out of alignment and jarred the port inner high-pressure turbine so that she was limited to 20 kn.