No Slowing Down As PT6 Marks 50th Anniversary

Credit: Pratt & Whitney Canada
On a chilly December day in 1963, when Pratt & Whitney Canada's turbine engine design group celebrated certification of their diminutive new PT6 turboprop, they had no idea they had given birth to one of the world's most successful propulsion concepts. Fifty years later, with more than 51,000...

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