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Aviation History
1950
1950 - 2043.PDF
FLIGHT, 30 November 1950 /• Flight" photograph Bristol footeus (left) and Armstrong Siddeley Dibble Mamba. (Above) A Lincoln test-bed flying on th&fiower ofits twadutboard Proteus. Note the relative diameters of the Merlin piston engines and the turboprops. photograph Fairey's Double-Mamba-powered anti-submarine prototype. which much time and effort has been lavished, has resulted in slow progress and a rather lukewarm interest in turbo- props. More recently the position has shown definite signs of changing, and at least two very promising units are now on test. Even at this early stage in their development figures have been announced—particularly for fuel con- sumption—which, if realized in operation, will guarantee an important future for these turbines. All are axial-flow designs of small diameter and considerable length. Con- version of existing pressurized airliners to turboprop power is under discussion, and in one instance the work is in hand. First American turboprop to be built was the bulky General Electric TG-100 (or T-31) developing, when in- stalled in the "pull-push" Consolidated-Vultee XP-81 Blackburn's Bristol Coupled Proteus (left) and Napier Coupled Naiad.
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