We interviewed the core team at Norway's World Wide Wind to learn more about its floating, tilting, contra-rotating, double turbine design, which it says can unlock unprecedented scale, power and ...

Here’s an interesting footage filmed form inside a Russian Tu-95 Bear bomber like the ones that skirt northern Europe’s airspaces every now and then. Although it does not show anything special about ...

London-based manufacturerPoduhvat has developed a wind turbine which they claim can produce five times more energy than traditional wind turbines with the same rotor size. The contra-rotating Whetar ...

Serious engineering work on contra-rotating open rotors for aircraft propulsion dates back to the late 1940s, particularly as a means to enhance fuel efficiency and extend the endurance of long-range ...

French startup company Price Induction is studying an engine with a two-stage contra-rotating fan as a way to reduce fuel burn on very light jets. The Taor 380-1 would have a thrust of 720 pounds and ...

MESSRS. ROTOL AIRSCREWS, LTD., have now completed the development, to the production stage, of a constant speed contra–rotating airscrew, the principle of which was mentioned in NATURE of May 17, 1941 ...