So, a turboprop takes in air, mixes it with fuel and then uses the energy to turn a propeller while pistons move the propeller under their own power?
one is a turbine engine ..(fans on a spindle compressing gas into a venturi ,like a jet ) the other is reciprocating (pistons turning a crankshaft..like in your car)
. on the subject of turbo prop , Russia has restarted strategic patrolling using the venerable Tu 95 , about the same vintage as the B52 , it's supposed to be the fastest propeller driven plane ?? there is four turboprops engines with contra rotating blades , for the same news from two sides http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 02265.html http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070817/72189719.html
Tu-95 is unofficially the fastest (turbo) prop driven aircraft with 575 mph...Tu-114 (the passenger liner based upon the Tu-95) is the fastest officially with 545.07 mph ! Or somebody know a faster one? BTW Great news now we can intercept those beautiful aircraft once more :smok: You don't want to let them "rust" away do ya????
. Great planes never die , There was a TV program about the B-52 a couple of years back , a pilot was saying his grand father flew them then his father and now he did apparently more than half of the tonnage dropped during the first gulf war was from B-52s didn't the DC-3 was dragged back for duty as a gunship ? and if yes is there still some on active duty ? .
Yes, but that was (IIRC) during the Vietnam War. The job is now being done by converted C-130 Hercules
. C-130 ! that's a lot of ammo load , what's the armament ? I think to recall also some phantoms used for counter EMW , wild weasels or something .
C-130 'Spectre' has, I think, a 105mm howitzer, a 40mm cannon, a 20mm cannon and a couple of 7.92 miniguns.
Well, there is/(was?) actually two-three different kind of C-130 gunships, AC-130A Spectre, AC-130H Spectre and AC-130U Spooky. AC-130A was armed with 20mm cannon and 7.62mm miniguns AC-130H is armed with 2x M61 Vulcans (20mm), 1x 40mm Bofors and 1x 105mm howitzer. AC-130U is armed with 1x GAU-12 25mm gatling gun, 1x 40mm Bofors and 1x 105mm howitzer. That kind of armament I could find with 1 minutes of googling. Not sure if that AC-130A armament is accurate.
my dad used to watch spooky hose the perimeter at cu chi almost every night ..he said the noise is not like gunfire at all ..more like a sound or tearing fabric except really deep and loud , a roar ,if a machine was roaring......it was a c47 (dc3 ) with 3 miniguns named "puff,the magic dragon "
