turboprop engine

noun

|Updated on: 31 Jul 2018

Definition of turboprop engine

: a jet engine designed to produce thrust principally by means of a propeller driven by a turbine with additional thrust usually obtained by the rearward discharge of hot exhaust gases

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The original design was based on turboprop engines.

— david hambling, Popular Mechanics, "Why It's So Damned Hard To Build a New Bomber," 11 Nov. 2015
Built on the frame of the obsolete P-3 Orion submarine hunter, the Aries II is powered by four turboprop engines and has a crew of 24.

— kyle mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "Pentagon Releases New Video of Russian Fighter's Dangerous Maneuvers," 31 Jan. 2018
The airplane uses 100 percent Chinese components, including four WJ-6 turboprop engines descended from a 1950s-era engine designed by the Soviet Union.

— kyle mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "The Largest Seaplane in the World Takes First Flight," 27 Dec. 2017
The aircraft has a 38.8-meter wingspan and four turboprop engines.

— deutsche welle, USA TODAY, "China launches world's largest amphibious aircraft with an eye on South China Sea," 24 Dec. 2017
Coffee brews in the little galley in the back, where a clutch of scientists and technicians in blue jumpsuits banter about the baseball playoffs, their voices raised above the resonant drone of Miss Piggy's four Allison T56-A-14 turboprop engines.

— bucky mcmahon, Popular Mechanics, "What's it like to fly a plane into a hurricane like Irma? We climbed into a NOAA plane in 2016 and flew into the heart of Hurricane Matthew to find out.," 8 Sep. 2017

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