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Old 06-13-2018, 11:13 AM
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Technical question- are turboprops the same in operation as jets, especially the early ones? Are they prone to similar type of failure?
I'm pretty sure that by the time turboprops came along a lot of the early problems with jets had been resolved. I flew the Hughes OH-6A in Vietnam in 1970 for 699 hours and never had the first blink with any of the turbojets in that little hummingbird. However they did not deal with RPG rounds very well.



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