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l (Peter Stickney) wrote:

In article ,
Joachim Schmid writes:
Sander van Doormaal wrote:

Recently I have inherited a beautiful wooden propellor
Burnt in is the following information

110 PS
Rhone
D 260
H 230
Heine
N29018

110 PS Rhone indicates that it was once fitted to a 110 hp Gnome Rhone
engine
which was used on fighters of either the German AF or Austria-Hungary AF
Heine was Germans leading propeller factory until 1945
The thing is 2,6 metres in length so that's what D 260 is possibly
referring to

Yes, D could mean "Durchmesser" (diameter).

H is most likely the pitch - as in the putative didtance trravelled
forward by hte propeller if there was no "slip".


But I would really like to know what specific type of fighter it was used
on
and perhaps even squadron and pilot info.

N29018 obviously is the factory serial # ("Nummer"). But I doubt there
were ever any records to which plane it had been fitted.

It would simple be a matter of contacting the Imperial Records Office
for the German Empire, or the Records Office of teh
Austro-Hungarian...
Oh, well. Never mind.
(Is anybody archiving the day-to-day records of defunct empires?)


Often during WWI the well-to-do would buy/have built their own
propellors and take them from aircraft to aircraft. We have an original
here in a Toronto museum that the pilot's family donated.

The reason we were told was balance and long lasting (that is if you
weren't shot down).

bill