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Cargo Plane Crashes into Terrain outside San Juan
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A Metroliner is not a jet. RIP.
RIP - But I have to correct you. The metro liner is a jet. Please note the following from Wikipedia.
"The Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner or the Fairchild Aerospace Metro is a 19-seat, pressurised, twin turboprop airliner first produced by Swearingen Aircraft and later by Fairchild at a plant in San Antonio, Texas, United States."
A Turbo Prop is a Jet Engine with a BIG FAN that is not encased, more commonly know as a Prop.
A modern day Jet Engine has LOTS of little Props in cased in a cowl.
Saying this is not a Jet is totally in accurate. It is a Turbo Prop Jet where the CRJ's, ERJ's, Boeings are all Turbo Fan... But they are all Jets.
"The Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner or the Fairchild Aerospace Metro is a 19-seat, pressurised, twin turboprop airliner first produced by Swearingen Aircraft and later by Fairchild at a plant in San Antonio, Texas, United States."
A Turbo Prop is a Jet Engine with a BIG FAN that is not encased, more commonly know as a Prop.
A modern day Jet Engine has LOTS of little Props in cased in a cowl.
Saying this is not a Jet is totally in accurate. It is a Turbo Prop Jet where the CRJ's, ERJ's, Boeings are all Turbo Fan... But they are all Jets.
Please note the following from the FAA order 7110.65U (the controller handbook): Fairchild Metro, SW4, 2T/S+. The 2T stands for twin turboprop. If it was a jet, it would be labeled as 2J.
Turbo Prop is still a JET a/c. In most cases much slower and doesn't fly as high, but none the less it is still a jet a/c.
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Read my comment just a little further down. The big fans do most of the work. Not the engine... A 777's fan puts out 90% of the thrust while the engine only produces 10 percent of the thrust.
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Sparkie....you could have saved yourself some time and a headache by just asking "if a turbo prop is not a jet then why does it use jet fuel?"...it is really the combination of the two....having this argument is like having the debate of whether or not a cessna 320 is a turbo-prop....I know what you are saying though
Not to cause more problems but the new 182 diesel burns Jet fuel and I know its not a jet!!!
This is getting way out of hand... walk up to the new 182 and spin the prop... You will note that it is very difficult to turn over by hand... Then go to a turbo prop and you can spin it over with 1 finger. You are comparing apples and oranges.
You are the one that started it. When folks talk about type of plane they talk about just that, the nomenclature of the aircraft, not really getting into the technical aspects of the engine. For the civilized world, people will speak of a jet or a turboprop, and not really get into the technicalities of what is driving it. You cannot change the entire aviation community or the world for that matter, regardless of how right you may be.
anybody that climbs into the business end of a plane or helicopter better know darn good and well what is powering it and the operating characteristics; not just what type of fuel it takes....lol
yeah, buddy. LOL
You are exactly right... So many people have crashed because they put in the wrong fuel just because of the way a plane looks. I saw a guy one time putting Jet A into a Piper Turbo Arrow... I said something to the fueler and his answer was. This is the correct fuel... It says TURBO on the side... I did not allow the pilot to take that plane as he did not witness the fueling.
It used to be that you could always tell fuel for an a/c by feeling the prop if you were not 100 percent sure... But with the new Cessna Diesel, that is no longer a valid test...
It used to be that you could always tell fuel for an a/c by feeling the prop if you were not 100 percent sure... But with the new Cessna Diesel, that is no longer a valid test...
all Sparkie is saying is that a metro and any other jet-prop uses a jet engine.....that is apples and oranges, with that being said Jet and diesel are close but not the same....kerosene is a little bit closer to jet.