Hello New here so hi to all
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Are There Any Aviation Experts
Hello all need some help here,
I was given this propeller today I believe it could be from a WW1 plane but what?
Any aviation Experts out there??
Picture Bellow It measures 48 inches By 8 inches wide in old Money!!
By: GRACELAND - 16th November 2006 at 14:33
Well Thanks all I was given it as i was quite intrested in it and so asked here for some info ,
Thanks all
So we will say it dates around the First world war time !
Ta
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By: JonathanF - 16th November 2006 at 10:45
I asked for help on woodenprops re a blade of very similar profile (but apparently a fair bit longer than yours) – they suggested it was from a scout, perhaps a BE.2 – it seems to match the photos I can find of BE.2 props. But as I say, yours looks more…stumpy than mine. But as it’s a similar profile and has the same green tip and green paint on the root as yours, this might help you narrow down what yours could be.
A definitive answer is going to be nigh on impossible as folk have said – you typically need the hub for that.
By: TEXANTOMCAT - 16th November 2006 at 09:48
Its not a 504 prop…. i know cos I measured mine and have two!
TT
By: Rocketeer - 15th November 2006 at 22:00
the flat leading edge may help…I have wot i think is a 1 1/2 strutter or pup which looks like it
By: Melvyn Hiscock - 15th November 2006 at 21:53
It is wrong shape for Vimy and far more likely to be Pup or similar.
By: Yara - 15th November 2006 at 20:54
You can try it here too..
By: Jamie-Southend - 15th November 2006 at 19:47
Welcome to the forum – hopefully someone can shed some light on it.
( Elvis has left the building )
By: The Blue Max - 15th November 2006 at 19:07
Certainly looks right for Sopwith Pup, Avro 504 era. But as already said need some info off the missing hub really.
By: robmac - 15th November 2006 at 19:04
It could be anything really, but it certainly looks early design. Maybe 1930’s. Vickers Vimy comes too my head for some reason but who knows.
Like Melv said, we need info that would be on the hub of the prob.
Sorry, can’t be any more help than that…….
RM
By: GRACELAND - 15th November 2006 at 18:51
Nothing else on it at all sorry ,Black paint one end and small green painted area other end !! thanks
By: Melvyn Hiscock - 15th November 2006 at 18:16
Certainly looks right but with the hub missing it is hard to work out exactly what it is from. Drawing numbers, which can be cross-referenced with the aircraft type, and sometimes engine type and power are stamped on the hubs. There appears to be no makers name but 48 in would make it almost nine feet in diameter in total. Could be Sopwith Pup or a number of things.
Need any identification marks really.
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November 15, 2006 at 5:58 pm