Propellor Collection

Ships Screw on a Railway Truck (watercolour over graphite, on paper)
1217573 Ships Screw on a Railway Truck (watercolour over graphite, on paper) by Ravilious, Eric (1903-42); 42.7x54 cm; Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, UK; eAshmolean Museum; English

Maldivian Air Taxi flying above island, Maldives, Indian Ocean, Asia

A wing walker performs on the Cadburys Crunchie Boeing-Stearman Model 75 biplane at the Sunderland International Airshow. 06/08/1995

Supermarine Spitfire Mk Vb, 1941. Artist: Chas Brown
Supermarine Spitfire Mk Vb, 1941. The iconic British Second World War fighter was designed by Reginald Mitchell

Two Short Sunderlands rescuing crew, 1940
An artists impression of two Short Sunderlands rescuing the crew of the torpedoed merchant ship Kensington Court, 1940

Cartoon, pilot flying green open-topped aeroplane among clouds and waving, his scarf rustling in wind, side view

The Short-Mayo Composite Aircraft, c1937 (c1937)

Airco Dh-5 War Plane
A pilot stands in front of the propellor of his Airco DH-5, a biplane fighter which had improved vision due to the the upper wing being closer to the rear of the cockpit. Date: circa 1917

Propellor of R. M. S. Queen Mary, September 1934
Photograph of one of the propellors of R.M.S. Queen Mary, then nearing completion in the John Brown Shipyard, Clydebank. The ship was christened and launched by Queen Mary on 26 September 1934

Imperial Airways Handley-Page HP 42 biplane Hanno, Gwadar, Baluchistan, c1931-c1940 (1946). By 1929, Imperial Airways Ltd. had pushed their regular weekly service from Great Britain to India

Wind turbine on the shores of Kluane Lake with Ruby Range in the background in Yukon
Lone windmill spins creating electricity on the shores of Kluane Lake with the Ruby Range on the background; Yukon, Canada

Caricatures of the Salon des Refuses of 1864 (litho)
CHT468173 Caricatures of the Salon des Refuses of 1864 (litho) by Darjoy, Alfred (1832-74); Musee de la Ville de Paris, Musee Carnavalet, Paris

Wing walker, Tanya Gaze, and pilot Mike Dentith pictured with the Cadburys Crunchie Boeing-Stearman Model 75 biplane at Elvington 01/09/1998

Wing walker, Tanya Gaze, performs on the Cadburys Crunchie Boeing-Stearman Model 75 biplane at Elvington. 01/09/1998

A Fairey Swordfish torpedo bomber aircraft flying in the Sunderland International Airshow. 04/08/1996

The Rothmans aerobactics team, in their Pitts Special aircraft, were due to perform in the last of their shows of 1980

The de Havilland Tiger Moth, based at Sunderland Airport, which developed engine trouble while taking off

The RAF Supermarine Spitfire (TD135) which stood in the grounds of 346 ATC squadron, Tynemouth. 27th January 1962

A de Havilland DH 82 Tiger Moth, based at Sunderland Airport, is dusted down by ATC air cadets for a fly past. 30th May, 1980

Princes Aerial Ship. Star of the East!, 19th century. 19th century
Princes Aerial Ship. Star of the East!, 19th century

Earle Ovington & wife, 1911. Creator: Bain News Service
Earle Ovington & wife, 1911. Shows aviator Earle Lewis Ovington (1877-1839) with his wife Adelaide. Possibly taken in New York at start of the Hearst Transcontinental Flight

Army aeroplane - war games Lt. Geiger, 8/10/12, 1912. Creator: Bain News Service
Army aeroplane - war games Lt. Geiger, 8/10/12, 1912. Shows Lieutenant Harold E. Geiger, a pioneer aviator

Erecting aeroplanes, illustration from The Western Front
STC400467 Erecting aeroplanes, illustration from The Western Front, pub. by Country Life Ltd, 1917 (litho) by Bone, David Muirhead (1876-1953); Private Collection; The Stapleton Collection

An aeroplane on the stocks, illustration from The Western Front
STC400468 An aeroplane on the stocks, illustration from The Western Front, pub. by Country Life Ltd, 1917 (litho) by Bone, David Muirhead (1876-1953); Private Collection; The Stapleton Collection

Marines movie men, 11 June 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Marines movie men, 11 June 1918 (date created or published later). Men in uniform with a movie camera at the Marine Flying Field, Miami, Florida during World War I

Fokker's parasol monoplane. No tension wires: great styg [?] capacity, 1919-1945

Langley Field, Va. - French Nieuport Plane
Langley Field, Virginia - French Nieuport Plane, Type 17, with Captain J.C. Bartolf (or possibly Capt. W.T. Boatwright) And Lt.E. Lemaitre, 1917

Langley Field, Va. - Curtis Jn4D Plane
Langley Field, Virginia - Curtis Jn4D Plane, with Olmstead Propeller And Ackerman Wheels, 1917

Model airplane, between 1910 and 1920. USA. Scientific apparatus with propellers

Flight, Seattle, 1938. Creator: Unknown
Flight, Seattle, 1938. Settle Children's Theatre - Flight - A Living Newspaper Play'. The Federal Theatre Project, created by the U.S

Robert Willis Jr. 1st Lieutenant, between 1909 and 1923. American airman in leather flying jacket, posing in front of the propeller of a biplane

Allied Aircraft - Demonstration At Polo Grounds; Col. Charles E. Lee, British Aviator, with Avro Training Plane Designed By A.V. Roe of England, 1917

Aerosleds on the Ob, 1880. Creator: GP Putintsev
Aerosleds on the Ob, 1880

Ocean liner propellor, possibly RMS Majestic

Postcard celebrating Anglo-French aviator Robert Esnault-Pelterie
3847173 Postcard celebrating Anglo-French aviator Robert Esnault-Pelterie, early 1900s (chromolitho) by French School

The careful hands of women are trained in precise aircraft engine installation duties at Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif

Women at work on C-47 Douglas cargo transport, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif

Lieutenant "Mike"Hunter
Lieutenant " Mike" Hunter, Army pilot assigned to Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif

Flexible performance of C-47 transport planes is due in part to their two 1, 200 horsepower radial engines and to their three-blade variable-pitch propellers, Long Beach, Calif

Marine lieutenant with the towing plane for the gliders at Page Field, Parris Island, S.C

Marine lieutenant, pilot with the power towplane for the training gliders at Page Field, Parris Island, S.C

Marine lieutenant by the power plane which tows the training gliders at Page Field, Parris, Island, S.C

Marine lieutenants, pilots, by the power tow-plane for the training gliders at Page Field, Parris Island, S.C

One of Americas new warships of the air, a mighty YB-17 bomber, is pulled up at a bombardment squadron hangar, Langley Field, Va. It is all set to taxi out to a runway and take off

Heres our mission... Langley Field, Va. 1942. Creator: Alfred T Palmer
Heres our mission. A combat crew receives final instructions just before taking off in a mighty YB-17 bomber from a bombardment squadron base at the field, Langley Field, Va

Students at Washington High School at class, training for specific contributions to the war effort, Los Angeles, Calif

Servicing [an] A-20 bomber, Langley Field, Va. 1942. Creator: Alfred T Palmer
Servicing [an] A-20 bomber, Langley Field, Va

Aviation cadets at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942. Creator: Howard Hollem
Aviation cadets at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Sailor mechanic fueling a plane at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Plane at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942. Creator: Howard Hollem
Plane at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Aviation cadet in training at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Bowen and Olsen, a riveter and her supervisor, in the Assembly and Repair Dept. at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Starting a propeller at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Bowen, a riveter, and Olsen, her supervisor, in the Assembly and Repair Dept. at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

A sailor mechanic refueling a plane at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Working on a plane at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

This sailor mechanic is inspecting a PBY plane at the Naval Air Base in Corpus Christi, Texas

Av. Cadet Thanas at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Instructor and students studying a map, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Texas

Student pilots, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Tex. 1942. Creator: Arthur Rothstein
Student pilots, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Texas

Low flying planes from which dust or insecticide is spread onto crops by men who " follow the season" up the east coast, Seabrook Farm, Bridgeton, N.J

German poster for an exhibition of English Graphics for the Board of Trade and the British Museum
1770027 German poster for an exhibition of English Graphics for the Board of Trade and the British Museum, 1923, 1923 (colour lithograph) by Wadsworth

North Sea, 1928 (tempera on panel)
657834 North Sea, 1928 (tempera on panel) by Wadsworth, Edward Alexander (1889-1949); Private Collection; (add.info.: North Sea. Edward Wadsworth (1889-1949). Tempera on panel. Painted in 1928

Frank Stanton & "Prince of Princeton", c. 1915-20 (b / w photo)
5848196 Frank Stanton & " Prince of Princeton", c.1915-20 (b/w photo) by Bain

General Hap Arnold visits AERL, Cleveland, Ohio, November 9, 1944. V Creator: NASA
General Hap Arnold visits AERL, Cleveland, Ohio, November 9, 1944. Visit by General H. H

Curtiss Ely Propeller, fixed-pitch, two-blade, wood and metal, 1911
This propeller is from a Curtiss Model D pusher biplane flown by Eugene B

Atwood-Wright Propeller, fixed-pitch, two-blade, wood, 1911
In mid-1911, Harry Atwood and Charles Hamilton flew a Burgess Model F Moth aircraft from Boston to Washington, setting a 737.9 km (461.2 miles) flight distance record

Curtiss R3C-2, 1925. Creator: Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
Curtiss V-1400 Engine:; Type: V-type, 12 cylinders, water-cooled; Mfg. No

Michigan Aero-Engine Corporation Rover L-267, In-line 4 Engine, ca. 1930
Designed by Harold E. Morehouse, a preeminent light aircraft engine designer, this was the first successful U.S. inverted air-cooled engine designed for that aircraft type

MS B 2173, folio 74v: Study for a flying machine, 1487-1490 (pen & ink on paper)
XJF308754 MS B 2173, folio 74v: Study for a flying machine, 1487-1490 (pen & ink on paper) by Vinci, Leonardo da (1452-1519); 23.2x16.5 cm; Bibliotheque de l Institut de France, Paris

Flying at Hendon, an advertising poster, 1914 (colour lithograph)
1769949 Flying at Hendon, an advertising poster, 1914 (colour lithograph) by Cuneo, Cyrus (1879-1916); 102x64 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: Flying at Hendon, an advertising poster)

One-man destroyer of the air, c. 1935 (photogravure)
STC398773 One-man destroyer of the air, c.1935 (photogravure) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Fairey Fantome)

Zhou Enlai Premier of the Peoples Republic of China, seen here arriving at Khartoum Airport. 1st February 1964

A Canadair Argonaut of Oversea Aviation seen here taxi-ing on to the apron at Gatwick Airport 15th May 1961

The general cargo ship Fernside seen here in dry dock at Genoa. Circa 1955

Flight engineers work on the Rolls Royce Merlin engines of a BOAC Lancastrian at Hurn Airport North-Northeast of Bournemouth, in southern England. Now called Bournemouth Airport. Circa 1946

Hugh and Herbert Spencer and their ground crew seen here preparing the Spencer Airship for flight, image is believed to have been taken near Croydon Circa May 1908

A Polish Air Force PZL Turbo Orlik trainer aircraft taxis before take off for the Sunderland International Airshow. 02/08/1998

A Royal Navy Fairey Firefly carrier-borne fighter aircraft and anti-submarine aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm at the Sunderland International Airshow. 04/08/1996

The Cadburys Crunchie Boeing-Stearman Model 75 biplane pictured at Elvington 01/09/1998

A Supermarine Spitfire at the Sunderland International Airshow. 06 / 08 / 1995
A Supermarine Spitfire at the Sunderland International Airshow. 06/08/1995

A Vickers Vanguard turboprop airliner in flight. 05 / 04 / 1960
A Vickers Vanguard turboprop airliner in flight. 05/04/1960

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"Propelling Through Time: A Journey of Aviation and Maritime Marvels" Maldivian Air Taxi soars above the breathtaking islands of the Maldives, showcasing the power of its propeller in the vast Indian Ocean. The Supermarine Spitfire Mk Vb, a legendary aircraft from 1941, captivates with its sleek design and iconic propeller, as captured by artist Chas Brown. In a whimsical cartoon scene, a daring pilot flies his green open-topped plane among fluffy clouds, his scarf fluttering in the wind thanks to the trusty propeller. Two Short Sunderlands come to rescue stranded crew members in 1940, their powerful propellers slicing through turbulent waters with unwavering determination. Witness an awe-inspiring wing walker performing death-defying stunts on the Cadburys Crunchie Boeing-Stearman Model 75 biplane – a true testament to both skill and propeller strength. Delve into maritime history as you admire "Ships Screw on a Railway Truck, " where watercolor brings to life this vital component that propelled mighty vessels across oceans. Step back into wartime aviation with the Airco Dh-5 War Plane's formidable presence and its spinning propeller that symbolizes courage amidst chaos. Behold September 1934 when R. M. S Queen Mary's majestic journey was made possible by her colossal propellers cutting through ocean waves with grace and precision. The Supermarine Spitfire from 1940 showcases not only its prowess in aerial combat but also how its powerful engine and rotating blades became synonymous with heroism during World War II. Glimpse at an intriguing postcard celebrating aviator Robert Esnault-Pelterie from early 1900s France; it highlights his pioneering spirit alongside an aircraft propelled by sheer ingenuity.