The propeller blades were typically made of laminated ... away with the cam and pushrods and instead connected a flexible drive shaft to the engine’s camshaft. This carried the rotation up ...

A drive shaft also known as a propeller shaft and sometimes referred to as a transmission output shaft is a vital component of your vehicle’s drivetrain. Ashraf Mutaasa Kafeero, a mechanic ...

If you want to fit a jet engine to one of those, you need a different mechanism to drive the propeller: A reduction gearbox. Reduction gearboxes mechanically reduce a shaft's output rpm through ...