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So my boater wife didn't like the previous post as all she could see was that damn seaweed that fouls up propellers......
I want my walls painted in this colour........
Detail of the massive propellers that the Airbus A-400M is using.
Captured during the 2023 Melsbroek Open Door, Belgium.
3 blade propeller ...
Pic in my Industrialscape Album ...
Pic taken Jul 11, 2022
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This is a close-up HDR photo of a ship propeller that is a 'public sculpture' on Granville Island in Vancouver. The framing of the light and shadow patterning creates a nicely balanced abstract composition.
Die 15.600 kg schwere Schiffsschraube steht vor dem Maritimen Museum in Hamburg. Sie ist 6 x 6 Meter groß und wurde als Ersatzteil für einen Tanker gefertigt. Seit 2012 steht sie als Geschenk vor dem Museum ist ein wirklicher Eyecatcher.
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The propeller weighing 15,600 kg stands in front of the Maritime Museum in Hamburg. It measures 6 x 6 meters and was manufactured as a spare part for a tanker. It has been standing in front of the museum as a gift since 2012 and is a real eye-catcher.
Here's an image I captured of the Commemorative Air Force P40 Warhawk flying alongside the "Tuskegee Airmen" Commemorative Air Force Red Tail Squadron P-51C Mustang. While the P40 Warhawk is painted in the colors of the famous AVG (American Volunteer Group) Flying Tiger WWII Ace David Lee “Tex” Hill and the Tuskegee Airmen has it's trademark red tail, I like the look of the black & white image against the cloudy background because it better reflects how these WWII fighters would have been captured back in the day.
A propeller (colloquially often called a screw if on a ship or an airscrew if on an aircraft) is a device with a rotating hub and radiating blades that are set at a pitch to form a helical spiral which, when rotated, exerts linear thrust upon a working fluid such as water or air
If you look closely you can see some fine wires running from the tips of the tail planes to the mid-rear fuselage on each side. These were an early form of 'friend or foe' detection; a radio signal from them helped differentiate defending RAF aircraft from others on the crude radar screens of the time.
This aircraft has a 'c' type wing, sometimes called the 'universal' wing which had provision for up to four 20mm cannon and four 0.303 Browning machine guns, although because of weight restrictions, not all could be carried at the same time without seriously degrading the aircraft performance. It is not uncommon to see two of the cannons capped off, as here. The red tape over the machine gun ports was to prevent debris from muddy airfields being blown back into the guns from the propeller while the engine was running on the ground. Wet mud could jam the guns. Of course, the first shots would go straight through the tape.
The outer machine guns were often considered to be not all that effective - the wings would vibrate when they were firing, so an ever widening cone of bullets would issue forth reducing the effectiveness on the target. The 'e' wing, which many later Spitfires sported, was a simplified 'c' wing, had the outer four machine guns bays deleted and could carry heavier machine guns and/or cannon in the four inner bays.
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Taronga Western Plains Zoo, Dubbo.
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