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 ...
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The largest transport plane of WW2

During World War II, Germany built one of the most enormous transport aircraft ever flown: the Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant. With six engines, counter rotating propellers, and a wingspan of more than ...
If stardom is measured by camera time and the number of drooling onlookers, then the Green Cri was undoubtedly the star of the recent Paris Green Air Show. The experimental aerobatic electric aircraft ...
The Airbus A400M is one of the most distinctive aircraft in the sky, and its unusual humming sound is a big reason why.
April 8, 2006 One of the greatest difficulties with vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft is that they invariably don’t have high speed as one of their attributes. The principles are well ...
Slicing the air as they haul the Airbus Military A400M into flight, the 5.3m (17.5ft)-diameter counter-rotating propellers of the Europrop International TP400-D6 - the West's most powerful turboprop ...
Collins Aerospace says the eight-blade NP2000 composite propellers on the Lockheed Martin C-130H enable more traction for a given propeller diameter. Credit: Collins Aerospace Propeller manufacturers ...