In 1963, Air Canada claimed to be the first major air carrier to have adopted turbine technology on its entire fleet for lower maintenance costs and higher productivity.
Low speed response and faster spool up are then obtained using variable turbine technologies rather than a smaller turbine.
By this time, improvements in turbine technology and hull form along with the use of fuel oil instead of coal made it possible to build more civilised record breakers.
He calls Westinghouse "my mentor," but today Westinghouse is often turning to Mitsubishi for turbine technology.
If you look at the latest gas turbine technology, you can reach efficiencies as high as 60 per cent.
They represent the limits of development for this kind of technology, which was superseded a few years later by turbine technology.
And that turbine technology, there's a company called Capstone which they spun off which makes microturbines for all kinds of applications.
Improvements to wind turbine technologies and turbine siting have helped mitigate bird mortality.
A revolutionary new turbine technology for hydropower plants is one step closer to its first commercial deployment.
David J. Manning, senior vice president of KeySpan, acknowledged that "any new generating plant built today will use the most current gas-fired turbine technology."