Sentences with word «turboprop»

It was great news because Bombardier's Q400 turboprop aircraft bested foreign competitors to win the contract.

«It was a mixture of many things,» Daniel Desjardins, general counsel and corporate secretary for Quebec - based Bombardier, says of the decision not, for now, to go ahead with the project to assemble Bombardier's Q400 turboprop planes in Russia.

The sale, however, of a facility Bombardier has owned for more than a quarter century, raises questions about the future of its commercial aircraft programs, especially its Q400 turboprop planes, after the company agreed to give a majority stake in its flagship CSeries jet to European planemaker Airbus.

If you bought, say, a small single - engine turboprop aircraft, that would be $ 1.5 to $ 2 million.

One of the fleet of turboprop ATR planes from Pakistan International Airlines.

If you need transport from San Jose or Liberia to the Guanacaste Coast or Nicoya Penisula towns, there are regular buses and shuttles as well as turboprop flights to Tamarindo, Nosara, Punta Islita and Tambor.

If you need transport from San Jose or other locations, there are regular buses and shuttles to all as well as turboprop flights to several destinations.

Cebu Pacific will increase the capacity of several domestic routes from Manila next month, with a switch from ATR turboprop aircraft to Airbus jets.

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The G - 1 is a large twin turboprop with performance characteristics of contemporary production aircraft.

It's a terrific event and lots of book clubs make a pilgrimage there — including, that year, one from Illinois that was on the Dash 8 turboprop with me.

The new turboprop aircraft was handed over to the...

So when the Toronto Port Authority announced its intention to make the airport self - sufficient by increasing traffic, Deluce hatched his plan: an airline that would fly fuel - efficient turboprops on well - travelled business routes, as well as to Northern Ontario destinations whose passenger demand and pricing sweet - spots he knew all too well.

The RAF will fly Panavia Tornado fighters, as well as Eurofighter Typhoons and BAE's Hawk Trainers through the Mach Loop, while the US Air Force will fly F - 15E Strike Eagles, F - 22 Raptors, and even C - 130J Super Hercules turboprop cargo planes.

The mission's workhorse is NASA's P - 3, a low - flying turboprop originally developed by the U.S. Navy to hunt for submarines.

Pacific Coastal will be using its proven 19 - seat turboprop aircraft, the Beechcraft 1900, to service the Vancouver - Tofino route, but has the capability to upgrade to larger 30 or 34 - seat Saab 340A or 340B aircraft should demand increase.

They use the four - engine turboprop airplane as a huge stethoscope to monitor Matthew's vital signs.

Bombardier announced that Luxair, the national flag carrier of Luxembourg, placed a firm order for a Q400 NextGen turboprop airliner.

My return flight was on a Trans - Canada Airline turboprop, and was considerably noisier, but retrieving my luggage and departing the airport was convenient.

That competition can only help drive a revival in turboprops among airlines as one of the means to reduce their impact and cut their costs.

The Antonov An - 22 doesn't fly all that often, but when it does, the world's largest turboprop definitely makes its presence known.

• Provided complete maintenance and repairs of various turboprop and turboshaft engines in top working order.

The Sidney, B.C., plane maker just signed a deal to sell five Twin Otter turboprop planes to a Chinese airline, and its plan to crack the BRIC market seems well on track.

But as jet engines replaced turboprops, the island airport's runway was simply too short to handle the aircraft, leaving Pearson International Airport, located a 40 - minute drive from downtown, to capture the growth in air travel.

The hybrid electric jet will seat up to 12 people, fly up to 700 miles and have operating costs of 8 cents per seat mile, below the operating costs of small turboprops and business jets powered by jet fuel.

«Our operating costs are about 60 - 90 percent lower than that of comparable turboprops and business jets,» said Kumar.

The Afghan air force is made up of a small contingent of A-29 Super Tucano turboprop light - attack aircraft (it will have 20 by the end of 2018), and Wilson said the Air Force would look to assist the Afghan government with acquisitions if it requested more A-29s.

Air Nippon Co. of Tokyo, a subsidiary of All Nippon Airways Co., has purchased three 56 - Dash 8 Q300 turboprop airplanes from Bombardier Inc..

The small regional jets once loved because they replaced rickety, noisy, slow turboprops have multiplied into the majority of domestic airline flights in the U.S., and are now seen as some of the least desirable airplanes.

Though Monash did take a mistress when work took him away from his wife (on a three - month steamboat, not a 90 - minute QantasLink turboprop) so we suppose Barnaby and he have that in common.

To make the rounds of his empire, he flies a quarter of a million miles a year, much of it in his own turboprop Vickers Viscount.

If the bigger twin - engines and turboprops belong in the limousine class, then such practical workhorses as short takeoff and landing (STOL) planes and seaplanes must be likened to jeeps and dune buggies.

The company upgraded him to a Starship turboprop, and he thought he was building equity in a plane through his promotional work.

The aircraft, a twin - engined turboprop Antonov AN - 26, had taken off at 6:38 a.m. (0638 ET) from Playa Baracoa, just outside Havana, and crashed into the Loma de la Pimienta mountain some 80 km (50 miles) westwards.

Yet tomorrow, weather permitting (and around Antarctica, every event is conditional on the weather), I'll join some 40 other intrepid travelers aboard a not - so - luxurious military turboprop to reach McMurdo Station.

When turboprop aircraft force air behind the propeller blades, or when jets cause moist air to flow over the wings to provide lift, the air expands and cools.

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Day One — Depart Adelaide Airport in an air - conditioned turboprop aircraft for Port Lincoln.

The service flies 48 - seat ATR42 turboprop aircraft which allows its contractor, Empire Airlines, to provide service to and from the islands of Moloka'i and Lana'i.

Asner's twin turboprop Dornier 228 carried an onboard spectrometer and laser equipment that measured the water content inside a leaf or needle.

And while other airlines say they are not currently considering turboprops, orders of the Bombardier Q400 model shot up from 24 in 2006 to nearly 4 times that number in 2007.

However the distances are greater than to other places in Costa Rica so you may want to consider a short turboprop flight to either Puerto Jiménez, Golfito or Drake Bay.

Scott Ernest, Textron Aviation president and CEO, discusses his company's new turboprop plane, for which FedEx is the launch customer.

You'll spend 8 hours seated in cargo netting along the fuselage of an LC - 130 turboprop cargo plane packed with tons of equipment (from frozen food to compressed helium), struggling to hear yourself think (forget about hearing the person next to you talk).

And for my trip to New York City, flying turboprop (which uses 64 % of the fuel of a jet) turns out to be the greenest way that I can go.

December 19, 2016 • Employees of Pakistan International Airlines sacrificed the animal to mark the first flight of an ATR turboprop plane since the fleet was grounded following a Dec. 7 crash.