propeller indetification

i need info for this:

http://www.worldwar2.ro/forum/index.php?sh...255&#entry82221

URA!

avia b33

This post has been edited by seeker on September 30, 2011 09:15 am

It can not possibly be from a I.A.R. because of the direction of rotation of the airscrew. (the I.A.R. airscrew turned counter-clockwise when viewed from the cockpit - you can see that in the photos actually). Furthermore, the airscrews used on the I.A.R. were made by VDM, were painted black-green and were marked with the VDM logo.

In fact, I am almost 100% certain that it is not a German propeller because of the thread at the root. In fact, that threaded hub mount is quite unusual and that may be of some help.

Radu

This post has been edited by Radub on September 06, 2011 01:52 pm

Most probably is from a modern aircraft (not ww2). I saw the advertise and talked at the phone with the owner ( he wanted 100 Ron)

The markings of the IAR are definitely not of VVS and seems to be
those of post WWII Hungarian AF, possibly left behind by the AAR
at the Western Front, however I doubt that HUAF ever used IAR's.

The pilot near the right main lng.gear wearing the standard issue
Luftwaffe pilot boots, but the shadded photo hardly can let some one
identify his uniform.Strangely that hangar looks pretty much the same
like the war time IAR repair station at Cotroceni......but that facility
was bombed and wipped out on one of the 15th AF day light
bombings

This post has been edited by yugit on September 06, 2011 09:51 pm

The markings are obviously of the Communist-era Rumanian air force's.

Gen. Dénes

Thanks for the intervention Radu! Good point with the rotation, i didn't know that. I excluded the IAR from list not to generate useless talk

Looking further at it, I also seriously doubt that the blade is from a deHavilland airscrew of the type used on the Hurricane. The hub mount (the "root") of the deHavilalnd blade was smooth with a "collar" at the bottom (it was a Hamilton licence), not threaded like this prop. Also, deHavilland props wore a logo on the front as well as a data panel with the pitch settings. In any case, this may not be a blade from a Romanian Hurricane because the Romanian Hurricanes were also decorated with two other stripes, one white and one red, below the yellow tip.
I agree with Cantacuzino, it looks modern.
HTH
Radu

Ok...anyway i'm glad to have it and it loos grat next to some other stuff

i had some time today and took some more pictures that i share with you guys.





by shape i think is for counter-clockwise rotation.

@ Radub : you forgot also that Hurricanes were equiped with "Hamilton Standard" propeller? HS had on one face a simple decal.

Hurricanes were also fitted with Rotol and Watts propellers.

BUT, the Romanian Hurricanes were only fitted with DeHavilland propellers.

In as far as I know, the Hamilton Standard propellers were used only on Canadian Hurricanes powered by Packard-built Merlins.

BUT the thread at the root of the blade does not look like any Hamilton Standard prop I know.

I doubt that what you have there has anything to do with Hurricanes.

HTH
Radu

i'm just trying to find out the model of aircaft. i looked at AN2 but is different model, at other Antonov aircraft that i found on net....nothing similar. maybe AVIA? i'm still looking becouse i'm making now a room in the house and i want to make a display, so the propeller will stay next to some other stuff

I would love to be able to help, but there is very little to go by.
I do not know everything about every plane, but as it happens, I know the Hurricane quite well.
Radu

Looks like a russian propeller, but with latin caracter could be from an AVIA (IL-10). Best regards!

Finnaly i found out my propeller origin..... this is the answer from aviation museum in PRAG:

Dear Mr. Serban,

Your propeller blade is from Czechoslovak propeller Avia V-42 for Avia B-33 ground attack plane, which is Ilyushin Il-10 build in the licence in Czehoslovakia by Avia Company at Prague. Original Russian designation of the propeller is AV-5 (avtomatičeskij vint).

Regards

Ing. J. S.
Aviation Museum
Curator

a pic from net