G’ day again 🙂 Some good link’s have now been added below
I’ve been digging this one for a while, WHY, I don’t really know!! :rolleyes: .
Just how big where some of the biggest wooden propeller’s, and not blooody ship’s.
And the hand carved job’s, must have been work’s of art!.
The one on the Avro Aldershot, look’s huge, and that is one BIG single engine job 😮 .
So Fair Dinkem, what can you find that was big in wooden prop’s.
Single blade I guess. and can they still be made easly now by machine?
By: QldSpitty - 20th August 2006 at 09:19
The british used wooden props on the higher powered Merlins and Griffons I think.I know the real early ones were wood.Something about being able to absorb the harmonics of the engines better than metal.
By: STORMBIRD262 - 20th August 2006 at 07:24
The all important PROP!
G’ day Jag mate! 😉
Wood prop’s in WW2? :confused: , were still a few I think here and there, a lot on moth’s and trainer’s.
Biggest metal job’s?, well the P-47’s was mighty BIG! 😮
But there may have been bigger?, ever after WW2
The XX were metal from memory 🙂
Anyone on here ever had a go a making a wooded prop? :confused: 😉
By: JägerMarty - 11th August 2006 at 14:30
Thinking of WW2 fighters, the wide paddle blades on the Ta152 looked mint 🙂
What about the props on the Dornier DO-X? not sure what their construction was…
By: STORMBIRD262 - 9th August 2006 at 05:41
Wooden Prop site’s
Some Wooden Prop site’s for those interested in it’s history 😉 ,
I think the Prop maker’s don’t get enough of a following, without these people where would we be!
Way back then and now :rolleyes:
Some of them are just work’s of Art.
http://www.woodenpropeller.com/
http://www.goldenessays.com/free_essays/1/aviation/aircraft-propeller.shtml
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/pao/History/SP-468/contents.htm
WHY NOT WOOD! pdf file http://www.casa.gov.au/fsa/1998/jul/34-35.pdf
All pretty interesting I reckon
Ciao 😉
By: STORMBIRD262 - 7th August 2006 at 02:07
far out!!! now that is BIG!
Thank’s guy’s 😀
Man that Linke Hoffman job is a monster 😮 , his other R .1 was a strange set up too!
Bugggered if I can find any real net pic’s of it! 🙁 .
Now who the hell carved a prop that BIG! 😮 and how, the giant’s from Jack’s bean stalk or what! 😀 .
Great score G-as mate 😉 , Is it light enough to hang over the mantle peice, and If taken to airshow’s, do you chopper it in! 🙂
Doe’s anyone know a good site, with history on historic prop making? :confused:
And what was almost as big as that Hoff, were there more BIG wooden prop’s, and were there machine’s to make em?
Did they ever make a bigger metal blade job!
Ciao for now
By: MrBlueSky - 6th August 2006 at 09:45
Hmmm… I always thought it belonged to this beast…
http://www.wingsovereverest.com/west.html
But then I’m rarely right in anything… Ha!
By: JDK - 6th August 2006 at 09:23
Bit here with a photo of the beast under construction.
By: Malcolm McKay - 6th August 2006 at 08:03
My source, the Guinness Book of Records 1985 edition, says the Linke-Hoffman R II flew in 1919 at Wroclaw, Poland as an airliner, with 4 x 260 hp Mercedes piston engines driving 22 ft 7.5 in. dia. propellers at 545 rpm.
Actually those 4 engines were geared to drive only one propellor – no wonder it was so big.
If the photos of this aircraft didn’t have people in them to give the scale – it’d look like a generic WW1 two seater observation aircraft – the thing is huge.
By: Papa Lima - 6th August 2006 at 02:58
My source, the Guinness Book of Records 1985 edition, says the Linke-Hoffman R II flew in 1919 at Wroclaw, Poland as an airliner, with 4 x 260 hp Mercedes piston engines driving 22 ft 7.5 in. dia. propellers at 545 rpm.
By: Malcolm McKay - 6th August 2006 at 02:38
Largest IMHO is the propellor of the Linke-Hoffman R.II, a WW1 German bomber. Diameter was 23 feet.
This aircraft actually flew in 1919.
By: G-ASEA - 5th August 2006 at 23:51
I have a wooden prop of a Short Singapore 111, which is 12ft 6ins long. But i belive their are bigger props!
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