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Old 30th Aug 2015, 19:35
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Luther Sebastian
 
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Why didn't Sikorsky try a CH-37 with turbines?

Why didn't it occur to the engineers to put turbines in place of the radials and get some serious heavy lifting going? It was only went out of service in the late sixties and turbines were commonplace by then.
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