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Examples
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I directed Yap into a counter-rotating CAP so that one jet was always “hot,” pointed toward the targeting area.
A Nightmare’s Prayer Michael Franzak 2010
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The press release lists a number of X2 technologies, but the key technology is counter-rotating coaxial rotors.
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Push it forward and the two counter-rotating blades pivot forward.
I'm Tired of Flying Cars Lou Anders 2008
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Clearly the helmets have counter-rotating propellers, only they whiz so fast you can't see them as a pair.
Lion Annual (1958) Adam Roberts 2010
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The two huge, majestically counter-rotating cylinders, the entire complex of linkages, ports, locks, shields, collectors, transmitters, docks, all became Japanesely exquisite at a distance of several hundred kilometers.
The Clique 2010
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We kept our counter-rotating CAP so that one of us could attack while the other maintained high cover.
A Nightmare’s Prayer Michael Franzak 2010
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I never knew you could have counter-rotating gas, stars, dust, etc when two galaxies merge.
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In some of those events the geometry of the collision with smaller galaxy will yield a counter-rotating block of stars, gas, and dust.
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It's possible to perform wheel maintenance with a single wrench, but I think it's better to tighten the wheel with two, counter-rotating wrenches.
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It pioneered twin engines (with counter-rotating props and turbo-chargers), tricycle landing gear, stainless steel structural components, and a radical airframe design.
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