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HELICE CONTRAROTATIVE [4 records]

Record 1 2001-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aircraft Propulsion Systems
CONT

Pending resolution of turbo-propeller engine development problems, the first was fitted with the enormous Rolls-Royce Eagle 22 piston engine with eight bladed contra-rotating airscrew.

OBS

Mounted on concentric shafts, having a common drive and rotating in opposite directions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Propulsion des aéronefs

Spanish

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Record 2 1988-02-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aircraft Propulsion Systems
CONT

The 7J7 ... will be a short/medium-range aircraft with about 150 seats, powered by two high-speed contra-rotating propellers of the propfan or UDF ... type.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Propulsion des aéronefs

Spanish

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Record 3 1987-08-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aircraft Propulsion Systems
CONT

Pratt & Whitney and the Allison Division of General Motors have reached an agreement to develop, jointly with the propeller manufacturer Hamilton Standard, a gearbox-driven propfan using counter-rotating pusher propellers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Propulsion des aéronefs

Spanish

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Record 4 1985-11-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aircraft Propulsion Systems

French

Domaine(s)
  • Propulsion des aéronefs

Spanish

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