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

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. Powered by a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine

The Short-Mayo Composite Aircraft, c1937 (c1937). The Short Mayo Composite was a long-range seaplane combination produced by Short Brothers to provide a reliable long-range air transport service to

Two Short Sunderlands rescuing crew, 1940
An artists impression of two Short Sunderlands rescuing the crew of the torpedoed merchant ship Kensington Court, 1940. On 18th September 1939 Kensington Court was stopped by U-32 with 13 shots of

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

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

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

Erecting aeroplanes, illustration from 'The Western Front', pub. by Country Life Ltd, 1917 (litho)
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', pub. by Country Life Ltd, 1917 (litho)
STC400468 An aeroplane on the stocks, illustration from 'The Western Front', pub. by Country Life Ltd, 1917 (litho) by Bone

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

Langley Field, Va. - French Nieuport Plane, Type 17, with Capt. J.C. Bartolf And Lt.E... 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
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, with Olmstead Propeller And Ackerman Wheels, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Langley Field, Virginia - Curtis Jn4D Plane, with Olmstead Propeller And Ackerman Wheels, 1917

Model airplane, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Model airplane, between 1910 and 1920
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. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Robert Willis Jr
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... 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
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. From a collection of 153 photographs and documents held in the Berdsk Historical Art Museum, drawn from the personal archives of people who lived in the town of Berdsk in

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

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

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

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

Saunders motor launch on slipway ready for launching, 1908. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes
Saunders motor launch on slipway ready for launching, 1908

London-Paris Air Race: the winner, Mr WL Brock, the American racing pilot, 1914, (1934). Artist: Flight Photo
London-Paris Air Race: the winner, Mr WL Brock, the American racing pilot, 1914, (1934). The London to Paris Air Race 1914, ran from Hendon to Buc and back with a total distance of 508 miles

Hawker Hurricane Fighter, 1938. The Hawker Hurricane is a British single-seat fighter aircraft that was designed and predominantly produced by Hawker Aircraft Ltd. for the Royal Air Force

Ocean liner propellor, possibly RMS Majestic

Postcard celebrating Anglo-French aviator Robert Esnault-Pelterie, early 1900s (chromolitho)
3847173 Postcard celebrating Anglo-French aviator Robert Esnault-Pelterie, early 1900s (chromolitho) by French School, (20th century); (add.info)

The careful hands of women are trained in... Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. 1942
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. 1942
Women at work on C-47 Douglas cargo transport, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif

Lieutenant "Mike"Hunter, Army pilot assigned to Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. 1942
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... Long Beach, Calif. 1942
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. 1942
Marine lieutenant with the towing plane for the gliders at Page Field, Parris Island, S.C

Marine lieutenant, pilot with the power towplane... Page Field, Parris Island, S.C. 1942. Creator: Alfred T Palmer
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... at Page Field, Parris, Island, S.C. 1942. Creator: Alfred T Palmer
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... Page Field, Parris Island, S.C. 1942
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... Langley Field, Va. 1942. Creator: Alfred T Palmer
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... to the war effort, Los Angeles, Calif
Students at Washington High School at class, training for specific contributions to the war effort, Los Angeles, Calif. Ralph Angar, instructor

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

Bowen and Olsen, a riveter and her supervisor, in the... Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942
Bowen and Olsen, a riveter and her supervisor, in the Assembly and Repair Dept. at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

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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.