The turboprop plane crashed Thursday, killing all 49 aboard and one person on the ground.
The Brasilia turboprop plunges to the left, then drops, losing 2, 750 feet in 25 seconds.
This may surprise nonpilots, but cranking up airplane engines--whether piston, turboprop or jet--has always been multistepped.
No business jet or turboprop can go as high and fast on so little fuel.
Charles Douglas-Hamilton flew to the world's highest peak as a passenger in a modern Jetstream 41 Turboprop.
The one outlier is Avantair, which provides fractional ownership of a very fuel-efficient turboprop called the Piaggio Avanti.
The exception was 2009, when a Colgan Air turboprop crashed near Buffalo on Feb. 12, leaving 50 dead.
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The new company will focus on piston engine, turboprop and military aircraft production.
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The turboprop is used in counter-insurgency fights and as a light attack vehicle and reconnaissance aircraft that is built for various speeds.
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About 700 African entrepreneurs and companies (not including the scheduled airlines) currently own or lease nearly 1, 200 jet and turboprop aircraft for business purposes.
At the same time, it will phase out the aging MiG-21 and MiG-27 fighter jets as well as the Mi-8 helicopters and Avro turboprop transport aircraft.
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And like the bigger planemakers it is ramping up its output to meet the demand: in 2005, the turboprop's darkest hour, ATR made just 15 of them.
As of December 31, 2011, it had a fleet of 102 aircraft comprising 81 single- aisle jet aircraft, 19 twin-aisle wide body aircraft, and 2 turboprop aircraft.
Mauritius-based Veling said it only spent nominal amounts to repair two ATR turboprop planes that were leased to Kingfisher, and plans to fly them out of the country by this weekend.
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The Beechcraft King Air first took to the skies in 1964, and for the past five decades it has continued to dominate the market, outselling all of its turboprop competitors combined.
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I've experienced much worse in an airline regional turboprop.
The Osprey, readers of this space will recall, is a remarkable "tilt-rotor" airplane, capable of taking off and landing vertically but able to rotate its turboprop engines in flight so as to fly like a conventional aircraft.
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The crews arrived four days after the 24-foot tsunami had swept the plant, and in the ensuing 10 weeks they logged 507 flight hours crisscrossing the skies over Japan in a Beechcraft C-12 twin engine turboprop out of nearby Yokota Air Base.
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