contra-rotating propellers in P-51

[tomi]

Hello

Was there any experiments in contra-rotating propellers for P-51 Mustang during WWII era ?

Tomi

 

[Deltafan]

Hi,

AFAIK, no :

Premiers avions à hélices contrarotatives

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Aircraft With Contrarotating Props

You will find as attachment a listing (which I hope it should be fairly complete) of aircrafts with contrarotating props together with year of first flight. I edited a similar handwritten listing on post #2809 page 188 of "aircraft identification V" Should anybody find more types I have...

ww2aircraft.net

 

[Justo Miranda]

Mock-up only

 

[Deltafan]

The mock-up in its final state, before the project was terminated :

Aircraft Mock-Ups

north American ftb mustang

ww2aircraft.net

Edit : I forgot the work of Justo and others on SecretProjects :

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/mustang-ftb.3440/

 

[Deltafan]

AFAIK too, the first P-51 with contra-rotating propellers was Red Baron (for Reno's races) in 1966, with the contra-rotating Griffon engine from an Avro Shackleton :

Red Baron (aircraft) - Wikipedia

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