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A Rolls-Royce Trent turboprop on display at the Science Museum (London) Type Turboprop: Manufacturer Rolls-Royce Limited: First run June 1944 Major applications: Gloster Meteor F.1 (Trent variant) Developed from: Rolls-Royce Derwent: Developed into: Rolls-Royce Clyde
The Avanti's counter-rotating [35] turboprop engines are placed on a mid-set, high-aspect-ratio wing located just behind the cabin. The three-surface design incorporates both a T-tail and a pair of small, fixed forewings having slight anhedral and landing flaps. On the Avanti II these flaps automatically deploy in concert with the main wing flaps.
Galaxy Airlines Flight 203 was a Lockheed L-188 Electra 4-engine turboprop, registration N5532, operating as a non-scheduled charter flight from Reno, Nevada to Minneapolis/St Paul, which crashed on January 21, 1985, shortly after takeoff. All but 1 of the 71 on board died.
It was the first turboprop aircraft that had an APU. The EMB 120 began development during 1974. While initially conceived as a modular series of aircraft, the Family 12X and referred to as the Araguaia , intending to achieve a high level of commonality with the EMB 121 Xingu , the aircraft was redesigned and relaunched with the Brasilia name ...
The ATP was developed during the 1980s, events such as such as the 1979 oil crisis and increasing public concern regarding aircraft noise led business planners at British Aerospace to believe that there was a market for a short-range, low-noise, fuel-efficient turboprop aircraft.
Partnair Flight 394 was a chartered flight that crashed on 8 September 1989 off the coast of Denmark, 18 kilometres (10 nautical miles) north of Hirtshals.All fifty passengers and five crew members on board the aircraft died, making this the deadliest disaster in Danish aviation history. [1]
A turboprop is a gas turbine engine that drives an aircraft propeller. [ 1 ] A turboprop consists of an intake , reduction gearbox , compressor , combustor , turbine , and a propelling nozzle . [ 2 ]
The commercial version of the T407 was the GLC38 (General Electric/Lycoming Commercial 38), which was unsuccessfully offered for several turboprop airliners in the late 1980s and early 1990s. [ 2 ] The new T408 ( GE38-1B ) is slated to power the new Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion three-engined helicopter for the US Marine Corps.