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Old 4th Dec 2015, 19:43
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The Dart had a centrifugal compressor rather than an axial compressor IIRC - did that contribute to noise? I seem to recall that the inner Tynes on the Vanguard also drove compressors for the pressurisation which may have generated noise. I knew this stuff 40 years ago!
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