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Grounded Dreams: Westland Westminster
This innovative aircraft was designed as a heavy-lift helicopter, powered by two turboshaft engines that drove a ... part of ...
This study presents a neuro-fuzzy approach to helicopter turboshaft engine control, improving fuel efficiency and performance ...
The engine-maker says the successful demonstration involved a GE Aerospace CT7 turboshaft engine combined with ...
Mark Burnand, Chief Test Pilot at Leonardo Helicopters UK, talks through the advanced avionics on board the latest generation battlefield utility AW149 helicopter. The Chinook has served in every RAF ...
Technical difficulties were never fully overcome, the increasing cost of fuel made gas turbine cars uneconomic to run, and meanwhile by the 1960s the piston engine had improved immeasurably over ...
The following description [1] of main configurations for gas turbine engines does not mention "land ... can be land (mechanical drive), sea (propulsion), or air (turboprop, helicopter) based. Figure 3 ...