turboprop
an airplane equipped with one or more turbo-propeller engines.
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How to use turboprop in a sentence
After he was flown in a turboprop plane from Melbourne to Sydney, Robson said, he had to sit upside-down in the crate with his suitcase on top of his head for 22 hours until he was loaded into what he thought was a 707 jet.
Man seeks pals he once persuaded to ship him around the world in a crate | Cathy Free | April 16, 2021 | Washington PostPutting it inside a carrier with the range of the turboprop in question extends that range by two orders of magnitude.
This Airbus prototype could deploy drones from cargo planes | Kelsey D. Atherton | February 24, 2021 | Popular-ScienceOn a side note, if you’re wondering what the difference between a turbofan and a turboprop is, that’s probably worth a quick review.
Airbus Just Unveiled Three New Zero-Emission Concept Aircraft | Vanessa Bates Ramirez | September 23, 2020 | Singularity HubThe EP-3E is a big plane, powered by four turboprop engines and carrying a crew of 24.
But Clive Irving points to some troubling instances in which other turboprop planes failed in icy weather.
British Dictionary definitions for turboprop
/ (ˌtɜːbəʊˈprɒp) /
an aircraft propulsion unit where a propeller is driven by a gas turbine
an aircraft powered by turboprops
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