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Subject: Re: Turboprops fly back in favour as greener and cheaper options Posted on: Thu, 08 May 2008 17:16:59 -0700

On 5/8/2008 3:11 PM auzpig ignored two million years of human evolution
to write:

> I remember years ago seeing pics of so-called 'revolutionary' new
> props in old copies of Popular Science [or Popular Mechanics] that had
> radically curved props replacing the turbofans of DC9s etc. Of course
> the propellors were 'pusher-props' on extended pylons further out from
> the fuselage. Anyone remember what the consenus of that idea was,
> then and now?
> Was the idea even feasible?

I think this provides what you're looking for:



Interesting reading, and perhaps a bit ironic.
--
dgs

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