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How can the old WW2 warplanes shoot right through their spinning propellers?
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∙ 15y ago
This goes back to WW1. Firstly they used a metal deflector plate to protect the propellor. Then someone, I don't know who, invented a synchronised method of allowing the bullets to pass through it. By WW2 most machine guns were wing mounted. The Me 109 had a cannon which fired through the very centre of the nacelle.
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