Unique counter-rotating design to help mitigate technical risk of integrating engines on to airlifter Airbus Military has chosen a unique "handed" propeller concept for the A400M airlifter in a bid to ...

During World War II, Germany built one of the most enormous transport aircraft ever flown: the Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant.

The An-70 transport is a high-wing aircraft powered by four 14,000-shp ZMKB Progress D-27 propfan engines with six-blade counter-rotating propellers. Maximum payload is 103,615 lb. Two An-70 ...

Researchers at SINTEF have now designed and built new measuring equipment for testing contra-rotating propellers, which are propellers that rotate in opposite directions. This could be good news for ...