[303rd-Talk] Question about B-17 propellers

[Keith Hastie]

I don't have any of my MACRs in front of me now, but I think prop serial numbers may be listed on them to help identify crash sites.

Keith

John Mcenaney <j4cubguy at yahoo.com> wrote: Hi all, the blade shows the part # ,ser # ,high pitch blade angle, and low pitch blade angle. There will be a (should be) a record of what plane it was put on. where that record is , i am guessing: try Boeing, if it was never replaced, but if it was, try Hartzell propellors, i think they made them. best of luck. john McEnaney Dir of maint, FIT Aviation

Bill Jones  wrote:  Hi
I received an EMAIL from a man in Belgium, who found a propeller near 
Frankfurt Germany. He said that he searched the 303rdbg.com site, and found 
that at least 2 planes went down near where it was found, so he thought that 
it might be a B-17 prop, however he said that his research showed that B-24 
props were similar, so he wanted to know if there was any way to identify it. 

He sent 2 pictures of the prop, one of which shows what seem to be some serial 
numbers that might help to identify it. The pictures are at:

http://www.303rdbg.com/303rd-talk/303rd-talk-photos/IMG_5942.jpg 
and
http://www.303rdbg.com/303rd-talk/303rd-talk-photos/IMG_5943.jpg

Anyway, if anyone can tell whether or not this is a B-17 prop, you can either 
email the man directly at
"DE PRETER Simon" 
or post back here, and I'll forward the info to him.

Thanks. 

Bill Jones N3JLQ
Sweden Maine
wejones at megalink.net
http://www.megalink.net/~wejones 



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