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

[Rose & Herb Shanker]

Re: B-17 props. If this is any help, they were Hamilton 23 E 50's.  Herb 
Shanker
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith Hastie" <kehastie at yahoo.com>
To: "303rd Bomb Group Talk Forum" <303rd-talk at 303rdBG.com>
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 1:22 PM
Subject: Re: [303rd-Talk] Question about B-17 propellers


>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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