Propeller for Mosquito or Lancaster ???

[Rem10]

Hello everybody,

this propeller is for ???

Size: 195cm

Thanks in advance

 

[Rem10]

Hello, up !

 

[Snautzer01]

Any markings ?

 

[Rem10]

may be under the rust, it is not mine, i want to know what it is before i buy it.

Its for a bomber ?

 

[Rem10]

I'm waiting for other photos for the dimensions

 

[Rem10]

Total length: 1m95 for 33cm of width.

An idea ???

 

[Crimea_River]

Without visible part numbers it's hard to tell. If you are an interested buyer, then the seller should be able to give you some kind of assurance on the provenance of the artifact including pictures of part numbers or documentation confirming the wreck location where it was taken from.

 

[Michael Hope]

The blade appears to possibly be a hollow steel blade, based on the damage to the leading edge. It also appears to be a right hand rotation blade. It is NOT a Hamilton Standard or De Havilland "Aluminum" blade as they did not use a nut the hold the blade to the hub. The shank has some similarities to what Curtis used. If it is Curtis, then it is similar in shape and size to a P-47 blade, but dot not take that to the bank, uneducated thought.

 

[Rem10]

Without visible part numbers it's hard to tell. If you are an interested buyer, then the seller should be able to give you some kind of assurance on the provenance of the artifact including pictures of part numbers or documentation confirming the wreck location where it was taken from.

The part has traveled, the seller is in Brittany and the propeller blade would come from Rouen.

Is it already a pale military propeller and not civilian? so it's not for Mosquito, Lancaster and other bombers?

 

[Rem10]

The blade appears to possibly be a hollow steel blade, based on the damage to the leading edge. It also appears to be a right hand rotation blade. It is NOT a Hamilton Standard or De Havilland "Aluminum" blade as they did not use a nut the hold the blade to the hub. The shank has some similarities to what Curtis used. If it is Curtis, then it is similar in shape and size to a P-47 blade, but dot not take that to the bank, uneducated thought.

indeed it looks like a pale P-47 propeller.
Is a p-47 propeller blade 1m95 long and 33cm wide?

What information would you need to be sure to identify it correctly?

 

[Rem10]

Looks the same here

Recherche de France-Crashes 39-45

 

[Michael Hope]

indeed it looks like a pale P-47 propeller.
Is a p-47 propeller blade 1m95 long and 33cm wide?

What information would you need to be sure to identify it correctly?

Is the blade material actually steel magnetic, or aluminum non magnetic? If the blade is steel then it could be P-47; but the P-47 blades used a cuff on the inner portion, which is missing from these blades.
The P-47 Curtis propeller both a basic 12 foot diameter on early aircraft and then 13 foot in diameter, so 195 cm is close to correct for a single blade.

 

[Rem10]

ok, most informations tomorrow

 

[pbehn]

The part has traveled, the seller is in Brittany and the propeller blade would come from Rouen.

Is it already a pale military propeller and not civilian? so it's not for Mosquito, Lancaster and other bombers?

A prop coming from Rouen could be from any allied fighter at almost any time in the war.

 

[Rem10]

others photos

an idea ?

 

[MiTasol]

The retaining nut is classic Curtiss as is the pitch change gear as are the folds in the blade so I would also support it being a Curtiss but there were a multitude of other aircraft with Curtiss hollow steel blades so you would need to find more details like numbers.
Off the top of my head I am fairly sure the C-46 and some DC-6s and some Constellations had them.
Nothing in the wreckage behind rings any bells but if the vendor can provide photos of a couple of part numbers from the wreckage that would lock in the aircraft type, if it all comes from one site.

 

[Rem10]

Hello,
Length: 195cm
Width: 32cm
Circumference at bottom: 42cm

 

[Michael Hope]

From a different thread, this is a P47 blade still with its cuff.
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