Aircraft equipped with contra-rotating propellers (CRP), coaxial contra-rotating propellers, or high-speed propellers, apply the maximum power of usually...

torque apply. Contra-rotating propellers should not be confused with counter-rotating propellers, a term which describes propellers rotating in opposite...

Contra-rotating propellers have benefits when providing thrust in marine applications. Contra-rotating propellers are used on torpedoes due to the natural...

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...

with contra-rotating propellers, which eliminated the torque effect. Early problems with the complex gearbox that was required for 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...

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...

sections side-by-side with a common reduction gearbox powering contra-rotating propellers. Similar in layout to the Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba, the...

service using a single propeller; only the Soviet-designed Kuznetsov NK-12 and Progress D-27, using contra-rotating propellers, are larger. The TP400...

directions even on the same wing. A contra-rotating propeller or contra-prop places two counter-rotating propellers on concentric drive shafts so that...

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...

contra-rotating propellers) on the British Fairey Gannet anti-submarine aircraft. Both setups had four largely unswept blades in the front propeller and...

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...

the silver-zinc battery and to shorten the distance between the contra-rotating propellers — work that lasted into August 1967. Standardization and machinery...

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...

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...

were powered by a turboprop engine driving large and distinctive contra-rotating propellers, and could carry aerial torpedoes. The Wyvern began as a Westland...

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...

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...

332 shp (3,976 kW) each Propellers: 6-bladed Aeroproducts, 15 ft (4.6 m) diameter contra-rotating fully-feathering reversible propellers Performance Maximum...

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...

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...

section with extension shaft and gearbox), driving two large contra-rotating propellers through a combining gearbox. Both the engines and the gearbox...

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...

radial engine mounted in the nose of the aircraft and driving contra-rotating propellers. The XP-69 was intended for high altitude operations and featured...

powered with four Kuznetsov NK-12 turboprops, mated to eight contra-rotating propellers (two per nacelle) with supersonic tip speeds to achieve maximum...

with the same axis of rotation, but turning in opposite directions (contra-rotating). This rotor configuration is a feature of helicopters produced by...

a twin-boom layout with a rear-mounted engine driving pusher contra-rotating propellers. When the XP-59 project was canceled the designation XP-59A was...

TG-100s (T31s) in wing nacelles; the D-557B, the same engine, with contra-rotating propellers; and the D-557C, to use the Westinghouse 25D. These were canceled...

XFY-1 featured a unique design with delta wings and three-bladed contra-rotating propellers powered by a turboprop engine. Test flights began in 1954, and...