Fri Mar 24, 2017 7:59 pm
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Contraelectric Propulsion Ltd tested their contra-rotating, electric propellers (manufactured by Rupert Wasey at Hercules Propellers) at Gloucester today in what is thought to be a world first. Fitted to a modified Libra sports car test rig, the tests were successful and a full trials programme will begin in due course.
It's fair to say that, until recently, I'd been vaguely aware of this and Roger Targett's Electroflight project but, over the last few weeks, I've really begun to see the potential of these emerging technologies to revolutionise GA.
72 yeas ago, a bloke by the name of Whittle was working on something equally revolutionary at Brockworth, about three miles from where the tests took place today. I'm quite chuffed that, decades on, Gloucestershire is still at the forefront of aerospace development.
It's fair to say that, until recently, I'd been vaguely aware of this and Roger Targett's Electroflight project but, over the last few weeks, I've really begun to see the potential of these emerging technologies to revolutionise GA.
72 yeas ago, a bloke by the name of Whittle was working on something equally revolutionary at Brockworth, about three miles from where the tests took place today. I'm quite chuffed that, decades on, Gloucestershire is still at the forefront of aerospace development.