Buzz Cuts: Taming Turboprop Vibration
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When turboprops first entered service with U.S. airlines, their smoothness seemed astonishing compared to the rumbling old smokies--the Pratt and Wright radials. One airline promoted its Rolls-Royce turboprop-powered Vickers Viscounts by demonstrating in a TV ad that you could stand a quarter on...
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