Five Manufacturers Proposing 90-Seat Turboprops
Credit: Alenia Aermacchi
Five decades after jets wiped out large Western propeller airliners, the turboprop is pushing back. Until the arrival of the much-heralded propfan, it will not recover the trunkline ground it occupied until the 1960s, but pressure is building to expand the turboprop in the role that it has held...
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