Haha! Defiantly is one of the most annoying and common internet mistakes of all. Along with rediculous.... AAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!
Anyhoo (which is not annoying at all), Back on track Here's an easy one, but it's a cool pic Image Unavailable, Please Login
Fairey Gannet - Duxford. Cool thing too, contra rotating props and could fly on one turbine driving both props M
Correct. It's an Aircon Gannet I know there are a few other aircraft with counter-rotating props, but how many of them are turboprops? I didn't realise these were until I took that pic this year.
Ahh, correct. Probably the most awesome turboprop of all. Did the B-36 have contra-rotating props? Pretty sure they were piston, along with jets as well?! Gee, they made some cool aircraft back then!!
Only(!) the single prop on each radial engine for the B-36. Something I didn't know until just now, though, is that they were initially built with six piston engines, and it wasn't until the B-36D that they added four jet engines with a B-52 style twin pod waaaaay out near the tip of each wing. The jet pods were then retrofitted to already-produced aircraft too(!!), just to maintain the nice even ten-engines-per-aircraft number across the fleet The B-36 was also used for a few crazy experiments - an operational nuclear reactor was flown in one to test the potential for nuclear-powered aircraft, and various configurations of in-flight docking were tried (fighters released/recaptured underwing for defence, reconnaissance aircraft carried in a bomb bay, a fighter docked tip-to-tip on each wing for increased range...). Because I guess when you've got a ten engined piston+jet aircraft, whatever idea you come up with doesn't look THAT much more unreasonable
Awesome! What a wonderful aircraft! My hazy memory is telling me there was a Pommy aircraft which may have had contra-rotating turboprops (Bristol Brabazon or something)? That's without the aid of captain Google, so I may be very wrong.
And the source of the "Six turning, four burning" saying, also heard as "two turning, two burning, two smoking, two joking, two unaccounted for" due to apparently pretty regular engine fires (something to do with pusher config and inadequate cooling I think?) I know the Brabazons were huge for their time, but not sure about the props on those. Wouldn't surprise me, though - there was a hearty enthusiasm for anything that could make a literally deafening amount of noise around that time! Helicopters with jets at the rotor tips, anyone?
Aw Brabazons they were the greatest - very loud and so much [should not say this] power thru the blades.
Rightio, obviously not a turboprop, but was there a development of the Airocobra (Kingcobra?) which had counter rotating props? I know the original had the very excellent idea of being a mid engine aircraft. Obviously better for handling etc.
Pulling it back down to relative boringness for a moment, Anyone know anything about the dual-pac Caravans? I know diddly (and refuse to cheat in this thread) but aren't they a dual turboprop?
Side by side PT-6s (just like the double mamba in the Gannet) - done by Soloy, I think. Never seen one, did they go into production? The Garret powered 208 s are pretty good though - we've just done a dual survey camera conversion on one. The 208 is a pretty good aircraft- just a scaled up 172 really... On the Gannet, each engine drives one prop - shut down one engine & its prop gets feathered.
Back (tenuously) on the B-36 for a moment, came across this today: B-58 Hustler Photos | Code One Magazine Interesting that the project which eventually turned into the B-58 was originally designed to be a light bomber/reconnaissance aircraft dropped from under a B-36... and with three of its own four engines discarded en-route! Seems like it would've been cheaper to just bomb the USSR with solid bricks of cash.
That looks like the real deal to me......I sure hope they don't break it, they tried hard enough in the video.
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These old geezers from Poland are like helio's to fly and if you get the chance then ask the owner. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Saw this while passing through Griffith. Fairey Firefly.The engine was sold to a farmer to power an irrigation system and part of the tailplane was sold to a Canadian museum for their resto project and a fibreglass one installed on this one. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Fortunately, they fly a lot better than they look! Apart from the fuel consumption, probably the best glider tug ever - there's one in the hangar opposite my office, with a broken engine.....they have a pneumatic starter and, if the engine is hydrauliced it gets very expensive......they dont have lower cylinder drains for decoration.
