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Old 4th March 2011 | 15:18
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barit1
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There is another possibility.

I've seen pix of the GE T58 (or RR Gnome) - a free-turbine engine - with the free turbine amputated and replaced with a straight nozzle. Some extra fuel was injected into the new tailpipe - mostly for the dazzle factor - but without a variable exhaust nozzle, it a far-from-optimum a/b.

Presumably similar surgery could be executed on a PT6.
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