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Old 7th Oct 2009, 06:10
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Rolls did a couple for BEA pre-Viscount to get some operating experince but they were un-converted after a couple years.

Conroy Aircraft put Darts on a Three and Super Three around 1970. They later pulled the Darts off the Three and put on PT-6s, don't know what happened to the Super Three.

I'd guess the reason the performance numbers don't change much is the power plants are staying in the 1200-1350 HP range of the recip engines. No one seems to want to do the engineering to up the power plant. What you do get is a bit more cruise speed - less frontal area - and a whole lot less maintenance.

Good start Dufo, but the conversion of what number?
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