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NASA Advanced Turboprop Research and Concept Validation Program
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NASA has determined by experimental and analytical effort that use of advanced turboprop propulsion instead of the conventional turbofans in the older narrow-body airline fleet could reduce fuel consumption for this type of aircraft by up to 50 percent. In cooperation with industry, NASA has defined and implemented an Advanced Turboprop (ATP) program to develop and validate the technology required for these new high-speed, multibladed, thin, swept propeller concepts. This paper presents an overview of the analysis, model-scale test, and large-scale flight test elements of the program together with preliminary test results, as available.
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Whitlow, J. and Sievers, G., "NASA Advanced Turboprop Research and Concept Validation Program," SAE Technical Paper 881164, 1988, https://doi.org/10.4271/881164.Also In
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