The Fairey Gannet is a carrier-borne aircraft that was designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer the Fairey Aviation Company, equipped with contra-rotating propellers, also referred to as CRP, coaxial contra-rotating propellers, or high-speed propellers, apply the maximum power of usually a single piston or turboprop engine to drive a pair of coaxial propellers in contra-rotation.

 

USN C2A Greyhound departing from Prestwick Airport returning to the USS Harry S. Truman (Carrier transiting from the North Sea on through the Channel her way to the Mediterranean)

 

Thrust vectoring of a F22 Raptor.

 

Northrop BT-1 in experimental McClelland Barclay camouflage design No. 4, on 9 September 1940 at Naval Air Station (NAS) North Island. Plane is in front of what appears to be the VS-2 hangar.

 

Kamov Ka-52 "Alligator": Highly upgraded version with a two-seat side-by-side cockpit for the Russian Aerospace Force.

 

A-4C Skyhawk being launched from USS Midway CVA-41 on 16 February 1964.

 

On this day in 1960, NASA made its first of four attempts to launch two X-15 aircraft in a single day. Pictured here is NB-52B with X-15-1 and NB-52A with X-15-2. Due to a hydraulic leak on X-15-2, launching the duo didn't happen. Only the X-15-1 took flight.