Oooooooh…Trolley Accs…Anne crawls into darkened room with wet suit on!

Anne:D

Oops…forgot.

Here is an advert from the 1950s.

http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/1950/1950%20-%201226.html?search=weyroc

Anne

I should know better than to try and take Mk.12 on when it comes to Spitfires.

Sure enough, prior to 1944, Jablo blades with Rotoloid coverings would have white disks while all other Jablo blades used the pink/red disk. After March 1944 Rotoloid covered Jablo blades fell into line with the rest and went pink while Aluminium blades took over the white disks.

I’d always thought that black and white photos of Spitfires with light coloured disks were fitted with Weybridge blades. Not so. In the case of Mk.Vs it shows they are fitted with RA.690RS or RA.10049/R Jablo blades.

As for Weybridge blades, they did make their way onto a few Spitfires. The type D (PR.III) used DR.291 blades when a RX5/2 propeller was fitted and RA10120 Weybridge blades were tested on the Mk.21.

I’ve see a number of any colour photos of Spitfire with red disks but I’d still love to see any with pink or white ones.

Anne.

Anne,

Repeating my adjacent post.

For the Basic R-/5F5-…..

Dowty-Rotol white disc indicates:- Material Jablo Wood, Covering Rotoloid or Rotoloid thin, Sheath either none , brass or steel, being respectively R, RS, RTS and RA blades,

Mark

Not according to the APs I’m looking at. Both AP3082 and AP1538E list Pink for Jablo, Yellow for Weybridge, Green for Hydulignum and White for Aluminium Alloy.

Anne

While We’re At It, Here’s Another Spitfire Prop Question

RWhincop’s rather nice Rotol blade has got me thinking (dangerous I know).

Mk.V Spitfires fitted with Rotol props would have used RX5/10, RX5/14 or RS/24 Propellers all of which used RA.690 or RA.10049 Blades. Both these blades used the Jablo construction method which means that all Rotol Blades fitted to Mk.Vs should have a pink (actually more like brick red) disk towards the root end of the blade.

If you look at RWhincop’s prop, http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=77470
it would appear to have a faded yellow disk suggesting that it’s a Weybridge prop. Now I’m happy that this is a Spitfire V / Seafire I/II blade but I’m wondering if anyone has a period colour photograph of the above aircraft with either a yellow disked Weybridge prop or a Jablo blade with a pink, and not dull red, disk. If Jablo blades did originally use a more pink colour it could explain why many black and white photos appear to show Mk.Vs with Weybridge blades.

Thank you.

Anne

Prestwick in “A Yank in the RAF” (1941)

Tyrone Power helps us Brits out while chasing after Betty Grable. The real stars of the film are 602 Sqdn who provided the Spitfires. A short scene where the pilots rush form the old mill at Prestwick to their waiting Spitfires frequently appears on TV news and documentary programmes to this day.

Anne

Is this the article? Found it reproduced on the aeroclocks website – fascinating reading.

That’s the one! The main difference these days is that Spitfire RW393 has returned and Ken Hunter has now retired.

On a related topic have a look here.

http://www.raf.mod.uk/news/index.cfm?storyid=D88A2BFE-1143-EC82-2E262D23483986BD

Anne.

Anne shuffles into the tread looking rather embarrassed.

“Fantastic looking Mk.Ia. Well done everyone involved…emm…err…Anybody got more shots of that rather unusual Trolley Acc?”

Dives for cover awaiting flak.

Anne:o