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TurbomecaTurbomeca is a French manufacturer of low- and medium-power gas turbine turboshaft engines for helicopters. The company also produces gas turbine engines for aircraft and missiles, as well as turbines for land, industrial and marine applications...
Astazou was a highly-successful series of
turbopropTurboprop engines are a type of aircraft powerplant that use a gas turbine to drive a propeller. The gas turbine is designed specifically for this application, with almost all of its output being used to drive the propeller...
and
turboshaftA turboshaft engine is a form of gas turbine which is optimized to produce shaft power, rather than jet thrust. In principle, a turboshaft engine is similar to a turbojet, except the former features additional turbine expansion to extract heat energy from the exhaust and convert it into output...
engines, first run in
1957This is a list of aviation-related events from 1957:-January:* January 18 - Three Boeing B-52 Stratofortress jets make the world's first round- the-world, non-stop flight by turbojet-powered aircraft...
. The original version weighed 110 kg (240 lb) and developed 240 kW (320 shp) at 40,000 rpm.
A simplified version was built by
AgustaAgusta is an Italian helicopter manufacturer. It is based in the province of Varese, northern Italy, with its main manufacturing plant being at Samarate...
as the Turbomeca-Agusta TAA.230.
Applications
- Aérospatiale Gazelle
The Gazelle is a French-designed helicopter, created by the company Sud Aviation, which later became Aérospatiale.-Design and development:The Aérospatiale Gazelle originated in a French Army requirement for a lightweight utility helicopter...
- Agusta A.106
The Agusta A.106 was a single-seat light helicopter designed to provide an ASW platform for the Impavido-class destroyers of the Italian Navy. The aircraft was provided with a sophisticated electronics suite by Ferranti for autostabilisation and contact identification. Two torpedoes could be slung...
- Agusta A.115
The Agusta A.115 was a prototype helicopter flown in 1971 in Italy. It was essentially a Bell 47J-3 with an unclad, tubular tail boom, and powered by a Turboméca Astazou II turboshaft engine. No production ensued....
- Eurocopter Dauphin
The Eurocopter SA 365/AS365 Dauphin 2 is a medium-weight multipurpose twin-engine helicopter manufactured by Eurocopter .-Design and development:...
- FMA IA 58 Pucará
The FMA IA 58 Pucará is an Argentine ground-attack, counter-insurgency aircraft. A low-wing monoplane of all-metal construction, with a retractable landing gear, it was manufactured by the Fábrica Militar de Aviones.-Development:...
- Handley Page Jetstream
The Handley Page HP.137 Jetstream is a small twin-turboprop airliner, with a pressurised fuselage, designed to meet the requirements of the United States regional airline market.-Development:...
- Mitsubishi MU-2
The Mitsubishi MU-2 is one of postwar Japan's most successful aircraft. It is a high-wing, twin-engine turboprop, and has a pressurized cabin.-Development:...
- Short SC.7 Skyvan
- SFERMA/Beech 60 Marquis
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