Mystery Plane Video

[Moses03]

Anyone care to hazzard a guess on this early contra-rotating effort from the USA?

http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675044892_aerial-testing_American-plane_pilot-standing-near-a-plane_propellers-rotate

[Ferry_vO]

Looks like it's incredibly dangerous to start.....

[Moses03]

Tracked down this oddball. From a 1933 issue of Flying Magazine-

http://i47.tinypic.com/wc2w.jpg


Aerofiles entry:

<center>Brown

</center><small>C L Brown, Rushville MO.</small>1931 = A kit-built Heath with its original 25hp Heath B-4 replaced by a two-cylinder Cleone modified by Brown into a rotary engine, and with the housing attached to another propeller, of opposite pitch, at the rear. This two-prop arrangement theoretically would do away with torque and add more thrust, but in real life it created more problems than it solved, and the machine never got past a fast taxi. (It did fly!)