- A
propfan, also
called an open
rotor engine, open fan
engine is an
aircraft engine combining features of
turbofans and turboprops. It uses advanced, curved...
- with two
unducted fan (UDF) or
propfan engines,
designated the MD-94X. Previously, an MD-81 was used as a
testbed for
propfan engines, such as the General...
- Additionally, the
propfan’s short,
heavily twisted variable pitch blades closely remember the
ducted fan
blades of
turbofan engines.
Propfans are designed...
-
design based on the Yak-42 with two contra-rotating
propellers on the
propfan located at the rear. The
specification of the
Samara turbofans was in the...
- The
McDonnell Douglas MD-94X was a
planned propfan-powered airliner,
intended to
begin production in 1994.
Announced in
January 1986, the
aircraft was...
- into the
larger F414 turbofan, as well as the
experimental GE36
civil propfan. GE
developed the F404 for the F/A-18 Hornet,
shortly after losing the...
- engines,
propfans generate most of
their thrust from the
propeller and not the
exhaust jet. The
primary difference between turboprop and
propfan design...
- a
turbofan and a
turboprop known as a
propfan. The
engine was
designed in the 1980s to
power proposed propfan aircraft such as the
Boeing 7J7 and the...
-
transport aircraft, and the
first aircraft to take
flight powered only by
propfan engines. It was
developed in the late 1980s by the
Antonov Design Bureau...
-
engines being put into service. The
Progress D-27
propfan,
developed in the U.S.S.R., was the only
propfan engine equipped on a
production aircraft. Afterburner...
