The Progress D-27 is a three-shaft propfan engine developed by Ivchenko Progress, and manufactured by Motor Sich in Ukraine. The gas generator was designed using experience from the Lotarev D-36 turbo
Progress D-27 propfan engine installed on an Antonov An-70 military airlifter at the 1997 MAKS Air Show.
The Progress D-27 engine on the Ilyushin Il-76LL flying testbed at the 1997 MAKS air show.
A front view of two Progress D-27 on the starboard wing of an Antonov An-70 aircraft at the 2013 Paris Air Show.
A back view of two Progress D-27 propfans. The aft propellers have only six blades each, while the front propellers each have eight blades.
The Europrop International TP400-D6 is an 11,000 shp powerplant, developed and produced by Europrop International for the Airbus A400M Atlas military transport aircraft. The TP400 is the most powerful
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TP400 presented by Safran at the 2017 Paris Air Show.
Two TP400 engines on the port wing of an Airbus A400M Atlas at the 2018 ILA Berlin Air Show. With the image zoomed in, the LH or RH markers become visible on the propeller blades, indicating that the blades are for the left-handed and right-handed propeller, respectively.
A400M showing its counter-rotating propellers on each wing. A small difference in the propeller gearboxes is required to make them go in opposite directions, namely the addition of an idler gear in two of them.
The TP400 propeller gearbox on display at the 2013 Paris Air Show.