The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
German Aircraft Propeller for 220HP Mercedes Engine. 3300 mm (10 feet 9 inches) in length, blades 300 mm (12 inches) in width. Wooden laminated construction, with a dark brown appearance. The wooden plies are laminated vertically. The propeller is marked 'ETA no 601 3,300 3.50 ST 220 ps Mercedes'. A spill of khaki gloss paint covers much of one of the blades. The manufacturer's decal is applied to the front surface of the propeller. The decal is circular, with a triangle in the middle of the circle. ETA is located in the centre of the triangle. Although partly obscured by paint, text on the three sides of the triangle reads:
D.A.P.
Ausl P[obscured]te
eingetr Warenz[obscured]nen.
Painted midway along the length of one of the blades is a cream coloured circle, in the middle of which is stencilled '642'.
ETA propellers were unique in being constructed from vertical laminations of timber. As far as is known every other manufacturer used horizontal laminations. This blade is marked with the manufacturer's decal, as well as information on the type of engine to which it was fitted, the diameter and the pitch.
German aircraft propeller for 200hp Benz engine. Light coloured laminated wood, 9 feet X 9 inches in length with steel hub fitting. Stamped on hub is the following: 'no 3831 200 P.S Benz D.297 stq.'
Propeller from the Pfalz D.XII single engine biplane scout/fighter aircraft, serial no. 2600/18. The propeller bears a silver decal showing a three ringed logo applied to the forward face of each blad
Wooden Propeller (500 mm diameter with blades 110 mm wide at deepest part.) Used to drive generators on German aircraft by wind power. The generators powered the radio and heated flying suits where ap
Wooden laminated twin bladed propeller fitted to a German multi-engined R plane. Fabricated from 16 laminations, each lamination 12mm thick. Possibly from the same aircraft as RELAWM11639. Stamped
Wooden two bladed propeller, made from nine x 20 mm-thick laminations glued together and shaped. Massive central hub with 12 cm diameter hole and eight mounting holes drilled through for attaching the
Fragment of timber from Baron Manfred von Richthofen's Fokker Dr 1 propeller. The facing surface shows traces of an AXIAL propeller-maker's decal. This fragment is comprised of birch, but retains a
