Anyone care to hazzard a guess on this early contra-rotating effort from the USA?
http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65...pellers-rotate
Anyone care to hazzard a guess on this early contra-rotating effort from the USA?
http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65...pellers-rotate
Looks like it's incredibly dangerous to start.....
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Tracked down this oddball. From a 1933 issue of Flying Magazine-
Aerofiles entry:
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</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!)
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