WW1 propellor

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).

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.

Regards

Joachim

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?)


--
Pete Stickney
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many
bad measures. -- Daniel Webster

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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

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In article ,
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".

Engine, PS, Heine prop, diameter, and pitch firmly indicate this prop
came from a Fokker Dr.I. Exact match on all info except N... which is
almost impossible to look up.
I thought at first it might have come from a Albatros D.Va (which also
used Heine along with Axial props) but the numbers and engine don't
match. Only the Fokker DR.I fits this profile exactly.

Rob