john szalay john.szalayatatt.net wrote in
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Mitchell Holman wrote in n
I love the story about how these were
so loud that submerged US submarines could
hear them flying overhead.

The noise also doomed the overseas
sales of the civilian airliner version
Tu-114




always wondered, how the Brits & the Russians could produce a workable
counter-rotating prop system, when the US could not.



The government paid Howard Hughes to make
one but it was so plagued with cost overruns
and delays that it was never put into production.
Hughes crashed it and that was the end.

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