[niteowl77]

I don’t think any fixed-wing aircraft with counter-rotating props has ever served very long, except maybe the TU-95 Bear.

The only ones I can think of off the top of my head are the Avro Shackleton and the Fairey Gannet.

[az_gila]

I don’t think any fixed-wing aircraft with counter-rotating props has ever served very long, except maybe the TU-95 Bear.

The only ones I can think of off the top of my head are the Avro Shackleton and the Fairey Gannet.

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It may be more of an efficiency thing. The later (and faster) versions of Spitfire had a contra-rotating props, but jets came into their own and replaced almost all prop fighters. The later Spitfires had the same Griffon engine as the Shackleton.

I think it's a good way of efficiently applying more HP to a smaller diameter propeller.

[Rinnwald]

...Fairey Gannet.

Don't be hateful.

It's much better looking, heterosexual, country mate, the Spitfire, had contra-rotating props in the later Griffon powered marks.

[Little Ray]

There was also the Westland Wyvern. Served in the Suez Crisis - cool looking but a mechanical nightmare. Served in the Fleet Air Arm from 1954-1958.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westland_Wyvern