Bullets Versus Propellers, or Why Synchronizer Gears Were So Important in World War I – The SlowMo Guys
By Nathaniel F
In World War I, the Germans developed a secret technology that helped them dominate the skies during 1915 and early 1916. The tech? A device that synchronized the firing of a machine gun with the rotation of an aircraft’s propeller, allowing accurate low-mounted forward-firing weapons on warplanes for the first time. Synchronization gears, also called “synchronizers” or […]
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