Essex Aviation Group are alive and well, still researching. Detail from our database gives the following.

20.02.1944 1558 hrs Consolidated B-24J-95-CO 42-100340 :Q 392nd BG 578th BS Crash landed, on return from operations, at Paglesham near
Southed Essex.
2nd Lt R K Goodwin (pilot) and crew (10) RTD. S/Sgt L H Brent seriously
wounded

The Supplement to the Merlin II Handbook for the Series III, IV & X Engines Revised and printed in March 1940 by RR gives the following options for propellers.
Fixed pitch Airscrew
Two-pitch Airscrew
Variable Pitch Airscrew, Rotol Internal Cylinder
Variable Pitch Airscrew, De Havilland with centrifugal weights
Variable Pitch Airscrew, Rotol External Cylinder, feathering & non feathering types.
Variable Pitch Airscrew, De Havilland Hydromatic, feathering type.

From a table of airscrew types in another publication the early Spitfires were fitted with the following Dowty props. as follows:-
Spitfire I RX5/4 magnesium blades
Spitfire II RX5/1 magnesium blades
Spitfire II RX5/3 Jablo or Hydulignum
These were all constant speed peopellers.

Mention is also made of Spitfire D being fitted with both RX and RS props with Weybridge blades.

BWB you are a naughty boy, in front of teacher in the morning!

I’ve said it before, but I need to remind myself.

Thought it would be clever, in the ’50s, to feather the 2 Shackleton engines nearest the spectators.

As we were in the middle of a very low pass, No3 failed.

Count the number of hands going for the switches!!

Not to out do you but I witnessed a Shack at a Changi air display come through on his wind screen wipers. As he feathered his last engine he started the inboard on the other side. Would have been 1962/63.
The commentator actually said, “Here he comes on his wind screen wipers”! They were going like mad.

CAA

What really annoyed me, and it may have been TV editing, I don’t know, but when I watched the BBC coverage of LB landing the other day, someone was pointing out to Don Brooks and Co where the restaurants were at DX, nice one, you fly all that way and you’re expected to pay for your own lunch and queu with everyone else, wierd.

Pete, that was me. They asked, I answered, in fun. In the tower were snacks and a welcoming cake as they were not stopping. Ask first, criticise with knowledge.