Re:Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders ID'd in WA plane crash
by MobiusHorizons on Friday June 07, 2024 @10:45PM
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Turboprop, I guess you are both basically right
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Re:Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders ID'd in WA plane crash
by mikepavone on Saturday June 08, 2024 @01:13AM
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Only the T34C is a turboprop. It appears Anders had a T34A which is equipped with a piston engine.
Re:Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders ID'd in WA plane crash
by SigmundA on Saturday June 08, 2024 @09:04AM
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Turboprops are not jets, it is the wrong term.
A turbine engine may be a jet engine or it may not in the case of a turboprop.
Jet aircraft use jet propulsion not propeller propulsion.
A jet gets significant thrust from exhaust gases, a turboprop gets almost none from exhaust gases, some turboprops actually are reversed intake in the rear pushing exhaust out the front like the PT6.
Turbofans are considered jet propulsion as the both the exhaust gas and fan gas are pushing though an exhaust orifice rather than the fan being in open air as is the case with a turbo-prop.