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The plane is a single-engine turboprop model that's popular for skydiving but has also proven useful for other uses, including cargo, aerial surveying, and medical evacuation flights.
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CBS News,
14 June 2026
The aircraft involved was a single-engine turboprop model manufactured in 2020, The AP reported, noting it is widely used for skydiving operations and capable of operating on short runways.
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Bonny Chu,
FOXNews.com,
14 June 2026
The single-engine turboprop plane was operated by Skydive Kansas City, which has been in business since 1998 and has sister skydiving companies in Indianapolis and Wisconsin.
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Cindy Von Quednow,
CNN Money,
14 June 2026
Guests are then whisked away to New York's East Hampton Airport (HTO) via a Blade turboprop aircraft, skipping the hours-long trek to the Hamptons.
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Michael Cappetta,
Travel + Leisure,
9 June 2026
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CBS News,
14 June 2026
The aircraft involved was a single-engine turboprop model manufactured in 2020, The AP reported, noting it is widely used for skydiving operations and capable of operating on short runways.
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Bonny Chu,
FOXNews.com,
14 June 2026
The single-engine turboprop plane was operated by Skydive Kansas City, which has been in business since 1998 and has sister skydiving companies in Indianapolis and Wisconsin.
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Cindy Von Quednow,
CNN Money,
14 June 2026
Guests are then whisked away to New York's East Hampton Airport (HTO) via a Blade turboprop aircraft, skipping the hours-long trek to the Hamptons.
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Michael Cappetta,
Travel + Leisure,
9 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for turboprop
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Water jets sprayed mist onto the crowd of mourners, who mostly wore black, with temperatures set to reach 36 degrees Celsius (97 degrees Fahrenheit), according to a forecast from the UK’s Met Office.
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Over in the geopolitical front, fresh escalating tensions draw concern as Russia launched a massive missile and drone attack on Ukraine, prompting Poland to scramble jets while Finland restricted airspace.
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But then the development of modern high-bypass turbofan jet engines that are 75% quieter than 1960s-technology turbojets eliminated much of the controversy.
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Incorporating a turbojet complicates the drone’s design and introduces supply chain vulnerabilities.
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FireSat will help incident commanders get better information more quickly, and, unlike fire-spotting aircraft, the satellites can linger over a fire for days or weeks and aren’t hampered by high winds or smoke.
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New York Harbor will host an international Parade of Sail featuring dozens of tall ships and more than 100 military aircraft in an aerial review.
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As expected, the ship—wider than and nearly as long a Boeing 777 jetliner—tipped over and exploded in a fireball, putting an exclamation point on V3’s trip halfway around the world from the Texas Gulf Coast.
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No pattern enacted on these buttons will safely land a four-hundred-ton jetliner, flaring and bouncing and settling heavily onto its twenty-two wheels while the spoilers on the wings snap up and the jets scream in reverse and the passengers sigh in relief.
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Ballast water the likely vector Researchers believe the bloody red shrimp first arrived in the Great Lakes from ballast water released from freighter ships that also travel the oceans.
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Best International Narrative Feature went to Labrador — Autopsy of Silence, directed by Rodrigue Jean, which follows an Inuk mechanic who is suspected of murder on a freighter.
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Mikel Arteta is taking his supersonic.
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The cruise missiles and supersonics leap forward as the swarms line up behind.
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Sinokor’s aggressive buying combined with a swell in oil flows to send tanker rates surging even before the US and Israeli strikes on Iran led to the effective closure of the world’s most important oil shipping lane.
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Riyadh largely paused shipments from its Gulf export terminals of Ras Tanura and Juaymah on March 9 after tanker traffic through Hormuz plunged due to Iranian attacks.
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Quesst—a needle-nosed experimental aircraft with an airframe designed to reduce the typical sonic boom to a sonic thump.
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The work addresses a longstanding challenge in lightweight airframe design by increasing structural strength and stability without adding unnecessary weight.
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“Turboprop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/turboprop. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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