Aircraft With Contrarotating Props

Wow. Get that to a museum ASAP!

An old thread, but I just found an entry for the E.J.C. 6-cylinder rotary of about 1915.
It was a single rotary engine but had one prop connected to the block and one to the crank.
They both turned and in opposite directions. Was it ever in an aircraft? 'Page' 180 of:
Airplane Engine Encyclopedia (en) Part 1

Apparently the 6-cylinder E.J.C. rotary was installed in a Vendome monoplane that (possibly) first flew on 29 April 1914.

E.J.C. advertisement:


E.J.C. 6-cylinder:


Verdome monoplane with E.J.C. engine:

Interesting

Hi everybody !

I found by chance this topic today and I discovered that someone created more than seven years ago a topic in English almost at the same time as my same topic in French...

AviationsMilitaires.net • Voir le sujet - Premiers avions à hélices contrarotatives

The greatest difference is that I search all the planes with contra-rotating propellers only until 1957 (Tupolev 114). I see too that you had, like me, problems with all the Spitfire and dérivatives with contra-rotating propellers...

Well, thanks a lot for what I found new in this topic :

-Vendôme monoplane with EJC engine (I had the engine, not the plane)
-Nakajima Ki-44
-Fairey Firefly 4
-Spitfire Mk VIII and IX
-Spitfire Mk 21, 22, 24 (I had no proof)
-Testbeds Avro Lancaster, Lincoln and Lancastrian
-Convair XP5Y and Tradewind dérivatives

In return, I propose to you :

-Ferber V-bis/VI : 27/05/1905 : 6 hp. One built. http://www.3af.fr/sites/default/fil...c/articles/ferdinand_ferber.jpg?itok=itOIo_cV
http://www.3af.fr/sites/default/fil..._zoom/public/articles/128-3.jpg?itok=kisYrvw2
-Ferber VIII : 1906 : 24 hp. Destroyed by tempest before its first flight. One built.
-Heath-Brown : 1931 : bicylinder engine. Unable to fly. One built.
American airplanes: Bo - Bu (Brown - C L Brown, Rushville MO)
-Brown : 1935 : 80 hp. One built.
HD Stock Video Footage - Test of airplane with counter-rotating propellers
Flying Magazine (p. 355)
-Curtis P-36 : 1938 ? One built.
HD Stock Video Footage - P-36 aircraft takes off, in flight and lands on a grass field in United States.
-SNCAC NC-110 : bomber in building in June 1940 (cancelled after the collapse of France)
Projet de bombardier stratégique : le NC-110
-Republic P-47B : 1943 ? One built. (testbed for the project P-47J)
Republic P-47B 'Double Twister'
-Hawker Tornado : 03.1943. One built.
Hawker Tornado | Forums

Greetings

Hi,

I discovered two news :

-Cessna COAX : 1986-87. 2 x 375 HP. One built.
Cessna Postwar Projects

-Twin Cozy : 01.02.1997. 2 x 100 HP. One built
article english

Another one :

-Dekker-Fokker C.I. : 1940 ? 1 x 185 HP. One built

Dekker-Fokker C.I Rotary Propellers

Hi, thanks to Wikipedia, and the Aircraft Engine Historical Society, we got these links.


For the aircraft to 1957, we can see, as new :

-French "float/boatplan" Ravaud Aeroscaphe of 1909 (never flown)

-Polish Schindler Aquila of 1910 (crash during main flight)

-American Curtiss JN-4 trainer, modified by Egan & Evans in 1931 (No information on flight dates, time aloft, or performance.)

-American Autogiro Company AC-35 of 1935 (some flights with contra-rotating propellers)

-American Douglas B-23 bomber (unknown flight dates with contra-rotating propellers)

-French Navy fighter Sud-Est SE-580 français of 1945 (cancelled prototype)

-American tourist Atlas H-10 Mono-Twin of 1948 (only prototype with contra-rotating propellers)

A "new" one :

-British Piggott biplane, with Four-cylinder 80 hp engine. Tested at Hendon in 1912, but "not believed to have flown"