Efficiencies of turboprop and turbojet engines compared; advantages of turboprop in 400-mph class of aircraft; difficulties encountered in developing Proteus and how they were solved; at takeoff same turboprop engine will give more than twice thrust of jet engine; on landing propellers can be put into reverse and act as very powerful brake.
Development of "Bristol" Proteus propeller turbine engine
Shell Aviation News
Shell Aviation News ; n 189
1954
5 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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Bristol "Proteus III" (Series 700) propeller turbine
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