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    Aircraft equipped with contra-rotating propellers (CRP) coaxial contra-rotating propellers, or high-speed propellers, apply the maximum power of usually...
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    torque apply. Contra-rotating propellers should not be confused with counter-rotating propellers, a term which describes propellers rotating in opposite...
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    Counter-rotating propellers (CRP) are propellers which turn in opposite directions to each other. They are used on some twin- and multi-engine propeller-driven...
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    Contra-rotating propellers have benefits when providing thrust in marine applications. Contra-rotating propellers are used on torpedoes due to the natural...
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    Tupolev Tu-95 (category Aircraft with contra-rotating propellers)
    the Tu-114. The aircraft has four Kuznetsov NK-12 engines with contra-rotating propellers. It is the only turboprop-powered strategic bomber still in operational...
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    Hughes XF-11 (category Aircraft with contra-rotating propellers)
    piston engines, 3,000 hp (2,200 kW) each Propellers: 8-bladed Hamilton Standard Hydromatic contra-rotating propellers Performance Maximum speed: 450 mph (720 km/h...
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    with contra-rotating propellers, which eliminated the torque effect. Early problems with the complex gearbox that was required for contra-rotating propellers...
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    Antonov An-22 (category Aircraft with contra-rotating propellers)
    Union. Powered by four turboprop engines, each driving a pair of contra-rotating propellers, the design was the first wide-body transport aircraft and remains...
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    directions even on the same wing. A contra-rotating propeller or contra-prop places two counter-rotating propellers on concentric drive shafts so that...
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    sections side-by-side with a common reduction gearbox powering contra-rotating propellers. Similar in layout to the Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba, the...
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    Supermarine Seafang (category Aircraft with contra-rotating propellers)
    liquid-cooled piston engine, 2,350 hp (1,750 kW) Propellers: 6-bladed contra-rotating constant-speed propeller Performance Maximum speed: 475 mph (764 km/h...
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    Tupolev Tu-126 (category Aircraft with contra-rotating propellers)
    performance was poorer over land. It was also found that the large contra-rotating propellers of the four engines seriously compromised the performance of the...
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    with contra-rotating propellers were ordered under the specification which was largely experimental to test the wing and a contra-rotating propeller. Supermarine...
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    Douglas XB-42 Mixmaster (category Aircraft with contra-rotating propellers)
    to mount the two engines within the fuselage driving a pair of contra-rotating propellers mounted at the tail in a pusher configuration, leaving the wing...
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    Kuznetsov design bureau. The NK-12 drives two large four-bladed contra-rotating propellers, 5.6 m (18 ft) diameter (NK-12MA), and 6.2 m (20 ft) diameter...
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    Martin-Baker MB 5 (category Aircraft with contra-rotating propellers)
    engine, producing 2,340 hp (1,745 kW) and driving two three-bladed contra-rotating propellers. Armament was four 20 mm Hispano cannon, mounted in the wings...
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  • Tupolev Tu-95LAL (category Aircraft with contra-rotating propellers)
    engines 15,000 PS (15,000 hp; 11,000 kW) Propellers: 8-bladed contra-rotating constant-speed fully feathering propellers Performance Cruise speed: 750–800 km/h...
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    Heinkel Lerche (category Aircraft with contra-rotating propellers)
    pilot would lie prone in the nose. It would be powered by two contra-rotating propellers which were contained in a doughnut-shaped, nine-sided annular...
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  • Yak-46 was a proposed aircraft design based on the Yak-42 with two contra-rotating propellers on the propfan located at the rear. The specification of the Samara...
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    Bugatti Model 100 (category Aircraft with contra-rotating propellers)
    inboard mounted twin engine arrangement driving forward-mounted contra-rotating propellers through driveshafts. The aircraft also featured a 120-degree v-tail...
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    Westland Wyvern (category Aircraft with contra-rotating propellers)
    were powered by a turboprop engine driving large and distinctive contra-rotating propellers, and could carry aerial torpedoes. The Wyvern began as a Westland...
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    service using a single propeller; only the Soviet-designed Kuznetsov NK-12 and Progress D-27, using contra-rotating propellers, are larger. The TP400...
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    Convair R3Y Tradewind (category Aircraft with contra-rotating propellers)
    332 shp (3,976 kW) each Propellers: 6-bladed Aeroproducts, 15 ft (4.6 m) diameter contra-rotating fully-feathering reversible propellers Performance Maximum...
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    Tupolev Tu-116 (category Aircraft with contra-rotating propellers)
    NK-12MV turboprop engines, 11,000 kW (15,000 shp) each Propellers: 8-bladed contra-rotating propellers Performance Maximum speed: 900 km/h (560 mph, 490 kn)...
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    contra-rotating propellers) on the British Fairey Gannet anti-submarine aircraft. Both setups had four largely unswept blades in the front propeller and...
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    Tupolev Tu-114 (category Aircraft with contra-rotating propellers)
    turboprop engines, 11,033 kW (14,795 hp) each Propellers: 8-bladed AV-60N contra-rotating reversible pitch propellers, 5.6 m (18 ft 4 in) diameter Performance...
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    Blackburn B-54 (category Aircraft with contra-rotating propellers)
    piston engine while the B-88 had a gas turbine driving large contra-rotating propellers. The radar scanner was mounted in a retractable radome in the...
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    Boeing XB-55 (category Aircraft with contra-rotating propellers)
    sweepback; the Allison T40-A-2 engines would drive three-blade contra-rotating propellers, i.e., six blades per engine; the engines were to be mounted in...
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    engine by coupling two BMW 801 engines back-to-back, driving contra-rotating propellers. The result was a 28-cylinder, four-row radial engine, each comprising...
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    Macchi M.C.72 (category Aircraft with contra-rotating propellers)
    engine, generating around 1,900-2,300 kW (2,500-3,100 hp), driving contra-rotating propellers. The forward part of the M.C. 72's fuselage is constructed of...
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