identité de cette Hélice Spitfire?

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53B

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Bonjour, quelqu'un sait il me dire ci c'est bien une pale d'hélice de Spitfire ?
Mc IX ? ou un autre modèle ?
La peinture à été retirée pour faire apparaitre la beauté du bois.
Des Marquages en partie basse de l'hélice.
Quelqu'un serait me renseigner ?
merci cordialement
 

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désolé pour les fautes de frappes je voulais dire un MK IX ou un autre modèle ??
Voici les références au pied de l'hélice : VKC 32911 / 108 RA 9731
 
Definitely a Rotol blade, but difficult to state which model of Spitfire as there was no direct linking of prop and blade serials to airframes.
 
Merci pour votre réponse. Y avait-il plus d'un fabricant d'hélices pour les Spitfires ?
La forme ressemble à une lame de 1944 ?
J'aurais dit un MK IX.
Je ne trouve pas les codes sous l'hélice ?
Est-ce que quelqu'un pourrait me le dire ?
Est-ce que quelqu'un connaît la variété de bois utilisée pour les pales d'hélice Spitfire ?
Merci
 
As long as the image has not been reversed, that is a left hand rotation blade. The blade with that rotation would not be used on a Merlin engine Spitfire. The direction of rotation would be suitable for a Griffin engine, and other engine models.
 
Re-bonjour, merci pour ta réponse, oui tu as raison le sens de rotation n'est pas le même donc ça pourrait être un Spitfire équipé d'un griffon ?
La personne qui me l'a vendue m'avait confirmé qu'il s'agissait d'une lame Spitfire qu'il avait achetée aux enchères.
Donc cette pale d'hélice doit appartenir à une version : du MK XII au MK XXI ?
 

Supermarine Spitfire (Griffon-powered variants) - Wikipedia

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Pour moi il y avait un enduit sur le bois qui devait être du bouleau, du pin ou de l'acajou ? comme un revêtement en filaments tissés pour protéger la lame ?
je vais continuer à chercher ?
 
For me there was a coating over the wood which must be birch, pine or mahogany? like a woven filament covering to protect the blade?
I'll keep looking?
sorry my translator is messing up it seems.
 
Hello again, thanks for your reply, yes you are right the direction of rotation is not the same so it could be a Spitfire with a griffin?
The person who sold it to me had confirmed that it was a Spitfire blade that he had bought at auction.
So this propeller blade must belong to a version: from MK XII to MK XXI?
Here are the references at the foot of the propeller: VKC 32911 / 108 RA 9731
 

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53B said:
For me there was a coating over the wood which must be birch, pine or mahogany? like a woven filament covering to protect the blade?
I'll keep looking?
sorry my translator is messing up it seems.
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OK. Now is much better.

The material used for thr wooden prop blades was named Hydulignum. It was a high strength compressed birchwood laminate and was the main wooden material used. Rotol bought in the compressed wooden blade blanks and machined them into propellers. This saved valuable metal for the war effort and had the advantage that a wooden propeller that struck the ground transmitted less shock load to the engine than metal.
At the root of the blade, the birch laminate gave way to mahogany and this construction method continues to this day including the four and five-bladed propellers fitted to Spitfires from the MkVIII to Mk24.


The info ... Spitfire Propellers | Fly a Spitfire | Biggin Hill Heritage Hanagar
 
Thank you very much for your reply, I am mainly looking for the model of Spitfire and the year that carried that variety of propeller blade. There would have been 13 different varieties of blades for the Spitfires.
With the codes I can't find much?
Difficult to find a specialist in France.
Thanks to you.
 
Strange that nothing is found with the markings?
then I will also register for master 194.
thank you steph 40
I'm struggling to identify this Spitfire blade I have.
 
Thanks
So maybe a Seafire XV?
So a griffin has 4 blades, not 5?
Interesting.
 

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53B said:
So maybe a Seafire XV?
So a griffin has 4 blades, not 5?
Interesting.
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That's exactly waht I said in my post above.

53B said:
Strange that nothing is found with the markings?
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IMHO the VKC 32911 / 108 RA 9731 numbers aren't for the prop blade ( these were printed on the black skin at the blade root slightly above ). The numbers seems to be of the metal hub.
 
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