. . .and Spitfire relic trawled from the Channel

Item is now described as being from a Tempest on e-Bay. I

The fisherman doesn’t get his bonus, no bids on this item. Bruce gets a credit mention. 🙂

Lightning!

B^gger, I was desperately trying to recognise that fat belly with the spindly main gear in the background.

Blo^dy obvious now.

Thanks.

WA$.

Photo was taken earlier this year at East Fortune (Frightning in background).

Best wishes
Steve P

Here’s a post-war Hercules:

Best wishes
Steve P

Where was this picture taken?

Regards,

John.

The hub was trawled up off of the coast in east sussex – just off of a place called peacehaven – which is between brighton and newhaven – near a place called portobello – quite near the sewage outlet pipe (apparently according to the fisherment, there is an unidentified aircraft wreck there which has been dived on quite a lot – from information provided on a previous thread – ie bolt counting – it would appear that it was originally attached to a centaurus radial.
with regard to other artefacts being dredged up – quite right – number of aircraft engines have been found – have seen a pratt and whiitney locally which some one (not me) id as coming out of a corsair – no idea how that was worked out.
have spoken with fisherman finder recokons that its unlikely to have come all the way down from portland – so unlikely to have come off of the Bristol freighter – however nothings impossible.

Item is now described as being from a Tempest on e-Bay. It was trawled up in the Newhaven area evidently. Lots of this stuff comes out of the sea on a regular basis along the South Coast and speculation as to specific history of aeroplane concerned is usually futile. Andy Saunders

Try this:

http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19490506-0&lang=en

Anyone know exactly where this item was found?

William

Just speculating but, couldn’t the prop be from Bristol Freighter G-AIFF?

Care to supply any more details.

Excellent picture; if it had wooden blades I’d say that was bang-on.

Where was it taken?

WA$.

Just speculating but, couldn’t the prop be from Bristol Freighter G-AIFF?

Best wishes
Steve P

Where does “confirmed by RAF Duxford” come from then?

Here’s a post-war Hercules:

Best wishes
Steve P

everyone is assuming its british……

The Farman reduction gear made me think Bristol too.

The ratio looks more like Centaurus than Hercules (but I could be wrong).

Centaurus and four bladed prop…possibly Tempest II, Buckingham, Buckmaster or Brigand. Did any of these have wooden props?

WA$.

No, it`s from a radial engine, looks like a Bristol, and most likely a Hercules or Centaurus. I have seen some Halifaxes with 4 blade Rotol props on Merlins, but not sure if it was done with the Hercules version.
I would be interested to know what it is off, as a 4 blade Rotol hub on a radial engine is quite a rarity, whereas the same on a Spitfire isnt! :rolleyes:

Incidentally, I`m talking a rarity in terms of WW2 and wooden blades, Rotol mass produced these for Bristol engines post-war, mostly with alloy blades.

Is it from a Spitfire ??????

Hi Andy

Yes this latest episode of ebay delusions has been mentioned on the thread below

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=63669

Mind you there is an even bigger delusion on there !