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An Air Tractor AT-502 agricultural aircraft operated by Southeastern Aerial Crop Service Incorporated, Belle Glade State Municipal Airport, Florida, June 2013. Wikipedia.
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Wings over the world: The PT6 turboprop and turboshaft engine, Part 2

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Rénald Fortier
Ingenium
Nov 29, 2020
Greetings to you, my reading friend, and welcome to the second part of this article on one of the most successful aeroengine of the 20th and 21st centuries, the PT6. Did you know that United Aircraft of Canada Limited (UACL) of Longueuil, Québec, a firm known today as Pratt & Whitney Canada Incorporated, played a significant role in the introduction of a new type of aeroengine on agricultural aircraft? Well, it sure did. One could say it first became involved in agricultural aviation, somewhat
The first turboprop engine designed in Canada, the PT6 of Canadian Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company Limited. Anon., “Advertisement – Canadian Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company Limited.” The Gazette, 14 November 1960, 24.
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Wings over the world: The PT6 turboprop and turboshaft engine, Part 1

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Rénald Fortier
Ingenium
Nov 22, 2020
Allow me to offer you a big safe aerospace salute, my reading friend. I would like to talk (type?) to you about an engine, and what an engine! In 1956, realising very well that the heyday of the piston engine had passed, the American parent company of Canadian Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company Limited of Longueuil, Québec, the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Division of the American aeronautical giant United Aircraft Corporation, gave it a mandate to develop jet engines of limited power. Shortly

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