Propeller ID – Barracuda?

Hi
I know this is an old thread but i have acquired one of these blades mine looks identical bar it has the hub missing, the only number showing is the DA940 with a letter (E) encircled in yellow paint. ive been told it is from a fairey Barracuda but am i also right in thinking it could also been fitted to a Defiant 2 and a Wellington as above?

Also unfortunately it has been painted green in some places but still appears to have its black covering underneath where it is flaking also the yellow band on its tip, would anyone recommend a possible process in trying to salvage its original coating.

Many thanks as always in advance.

Presumably there’s a very good chance that this is the biggest surviving piece of a Wellington MkVI?

Adrian

Thanks for clearing that bit up Anne, I did kind of mean more generally – from a numpty point of view say!

Can a certain prop blade only be fitted to one type of aircraft, ie could this blade in theory have been fitted to another type of aircraft?

DR.942 and DS.942 blades used two types of adaptor rings. RA.8952 which was exclusive to Merlin engined Wellingtons and RA.5812 which was used on almost anything you could dangle a Merlin off of.

In theory, if it’s got a RA.5812 adaptor, you could fit it to a large number of hubs…whether that’s a good idea I’ll leave up to you.

Anne

Would I be right in saying that the photo was taken in my local Museum, the South Australian Aviation one out at Port Adelaide? Looks like the new restoration wing as well.

Steve

Affirm – March this year.

I relayed the identification back via LangdonB yesterday.

Mark

Many thanks Anne.

I wonder what it is doing in Australia?

Does that link with the service of these aircraft?

Mark

Would I be right in saying that the photo was taken in my local Museum, the South Australian Aviation one out at Port Adelaide? Looks like the new restoration wing as well.

Steve

I do realise there are only a certain amount of airframe /engine combinations and that there are lots of different propellor designs.

Can a certain prop blade only be fitted to one type of aircraft, ie could this blade in theory have been fitted to another type of aircraft?

One of the Wellington aircraft mentioned exploded above the village of Stanley, Derbyshire, less than half a mile from wher I am sat now. My Grandma was out walking near the village at the time and heard an explosion, then saw the falling debris. The accident was blamed on a propeller blade coming through the side of the cockpit, all the crew were killed. A monument to the crew was erected a few years back, PA474 put on a stunning low level display, a fitting tribute.

Mastermind, don’t tell me – ‘Anoraks from Fourteen Fifty to Nineteen Ninety-Nine’. 🙂

Mark

Ahh…So you saw it.:D

Don’t know how this ended up in Oz. 109 Sqdn are the only folk to use them operationally, (6 months in all) so what happened to them after July 1942 is a bit of a mystery.

Any Wimpy (no..not the burgers) experts out there?

Been there, done that…but as a question setter, not a contestant. Anyway I’d need a crib sheet which I think is against the rules.

Anne

Mastermind, don’t tell me – ‘Anoraks from Fourteen Fifty to Nineteen Ninety-Nine’. 🙂

Mark

Anne

You need to go on Mastermind

Paul

Been there, done that…but as a question setter, not a contestant. Anyway I’d need a crib sheet which I think is against the rules.

Anne

Now that IS a rare beast.

DR.942 blade used on Rotol R1/4B5/1 Propellers fitted to the Merlin 60 powered Wellington VI.

Yup, a four bladed, merlin engined, pressurized Wellington with only 63 production models produced.

Do you have any hens teeth in that store?

Anne

Many thanks Anne.

I wonder what it is doing in Australia?

Does that link with the service of these aircraft?

Mark

Anne

You need to go on Mastermind with propellars as your specialist subject, however, though popular here… I can see tv’s being switched over to other sides all over Britain now….

Paul

Now that IS a rare beast.

DR.942 blade used on Rotol R1/4B5/1 Propellers fitted to the Merlin 60 powered Wellington VI.

Yup, a four bladed, merlin engined, pressurized Wellington with only 63 production models produced.

Do you have any hens teeth in that store?

Anne

As previously fitted to an Aussie Spitfire by any chance?

Just curious

Cheers

Cees