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To: DFG

That’s not a picture of a jetliner.


3 posted on 12/27/2025 4:12:01 AM PST by Laslo Fripp (Does anybody proofread anymore)
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To: Laslo Fripp

Gosh - you’re right: it’s a twin turboprop! The jet engines turn propellers...


4 posted on 12/27/2025 4:52:22 AM PST by Chainmail (You can vote your way into Socialism - but you will have to shoot your way out.)
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To: Laslo Fripp

The plane was a Fairchild F27A Friendship twin-engine turboprop. A Turboprop engine is also called a Jetprop because it uses a jet engine to power a propeller.


5 posted on 12/27/2025 5:20:06 AM PST by DFG
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