Machine gun synchronizer in slow motion - GIF

[rdarrylb]

Roland Garros was a French pilot that mounted metal deflector wedges on the rear side of his propeller. He managed to shoot down 5 German planes before a malfunction and he crashed behind enemy lines, revealing the device to the Germans. Anthony Fokker came up with the interrupter device. I'm not sure that the metal wedge was ever used by others...

[meyer77]

Roland Garros was a French pilot that mounted metal deflector wedges on the rear side of his propeller. He managed to shoot down 5 German planes before a malfunction and he crashed behind enemy lines, revealing the device to the Germans. Anthony Fokker came up with the interrupter device. I'm not sure that the metal wedge was ever used by others...

Leave it to a German to come up with that!

[rdarrylb]

Actually, he was Dutch, but worked for the Germans. Sad thing is that it took almost two years for the Allies to come up with something similar!