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MD-81 DC-9-81 UDF Demonstrator  (GE36)  -  s/n N980DC  -  48000/909  -  McDD/General Electric  -  Farnborough, September 1988
The GE36 Unducted Fan (UDF) used two contra-rotating propellers with eight blades each.