Talk:Contra-rotating

question
The article currently asserts "...resulting in the maximum power of a single piston or turboprop engine to drive two propellers..."

This is asserted, in the article in several places. The article doesn't try to explain why contra-rotating propellers result in more power. This should be explained. Geo Swan (talk) 03:23, 1 October 2009 (UTC)


 * It is not that contra-rotating propellers result in more power, but that more power can be applied to an already size-limited propeller disk area. At the bottom of the article, see the external link Two Propellers in Tandem Turning in Opposite Ways Give Warplane New Speed. Kurt Artindagi (talk) 03:25, 24 November 2013 (UTC)