LORRY LOAD OF PROPELLORS!!!

hehehe at least now u’ll have a place to seat & s*it on your pants! 😉
They should have a release tube too matey, feel free to try it lol

Alex

I dont care – now have seats so I’m a happy bunny 🙂 🙂

TT

unfeathered props?! That’s a big no no!! 😀

Alex

Definitely J41

See http://jetstream-club.org and compare.

(they’re bloody heavy too!)

looks like a lorry load of propellers to me 😀

Still think it looks like a wind farm though!

Love how they’ve strapped them on the truck with ropes btw….Right across the blades!
Good effort!

Thanks chaps….I feel thoroughly enriched by superior knowledge!!!, now finished the flypastie…….onto the victory roll!!

Regards

John.

FMK – the propellors are taken apart – inspected – repaired as necessary and then reassembled and balanced. They are then that physical size and cannot be taken apart for transport. You are very limited in how you can transport them and obviously laying them flat has the risk of them being clipped.

Looks like they are going for a service to me. Notice the leading edges have all the paint eroded away? I’ve only ever seen props transported like that before or at least variable pitch props. The internals are quite complex with the pitch change and feathering mechanisms so I would think they would be assembled and disassembled at the manufacturers overhaul shop and not at the airport / airfield.

Chris

They were going west-bound so thinking about it they very well could have been coming from Humberside Airport.

What direction down the M180 – East or West-bound? If J41 props, perhaps going to/from Eastern Airways at Humberside??

I remember props from Viscounts & Heralds always leaving BAF at Southend in the same manner, ( 1980`s ), they were off for refurbishment at Dowty Rotal, which was in the West Country somewhere, possibly Wales.

I thought they might be something modern but it does look a very historic way of transporting them so this is why I thought this would be the best place to start.

My first thought was that they have been picked up from one of the main ports on the Humber Bank and are being transported to the Doncaster Airport, If this is so then one would asume that they could be ‘flat packed’ for transport and assembled on site.

Seems to me a very fragile and risky way of transporting propellors but there must be a reason for it.

Regards

John.

P.S. The in car dust buster took care of the flypastie crumbs!!.

99% certain they’re J41 McCauley props.

J man

Jetstream 41`s ????

( The P.S had me chuckling John! )

Flypastie ingredient mincers?

I had the wind farm after the flypastie!!!!! 😀 😀 😀 😀

Wind Farm? 😀