Items tagged aeroplane components in MV Collections
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Propeller & Pressure Gauge - RAF SE5a, circa 1918
Together with the Sopwith Camel, the Royal Aircraft Factory SE5a was the most important and numerous British fighter aircraft of the First World War. It was powered by either a Wolseley ...
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Propeller - Basil Watson, 1916
Basil Watson travelled from Melbourne to Britain in May 1914 to learn to fly. He was then employed in the United Kingdom as a pilot with the Sopwith Aviation Company and subsequently at ...
From: South Melbourne, Australia Images: 1 -
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Propeller - De Havilland, Fairey Battle, circa 1940
The Fairey Battle was designed by Fairey Aviation Limited at Stockport near Manchester, UK to British Air Ministry Specification P.27/32 for a three-seat light bomber. The prototype fir ...
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Aeroplane Fuselage Frame Section - De Havilland DH 60M Gipsy Moth, circa 1935
A section of welded tubular steel from the rear fuselage of a De Havilland DH 60M Gipsy Moth biplane made by the Department of Defence at Maribrynong, Victoria in about 1935. Six DH 60M ...
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Propeller - RAF 1A Engine, circa 1914
This four blade propellor was made by the Royal Aircraft Factory at Farnborough in the United Kingdom. It is of wooden construction built up from seven laminations of 3/4 inch planks. E ...
From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 1 -
Propeller - Duigan Biplane, John Fulton, Melbourne, Victoria, 1910
This is the original yellow pine propeller fitted to John Roberson Duigan's biplane, the first Australian-built powered aircraft to fly. The propeller was made by John Fulton, an experi ...
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Propeller - Wright Model A, 1909
Orville and Wilbur Wright designed and flew the first aircraft to achieve controlled, powered flight on 17 December 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The Wright brothers also develope ...
From: Dayton, United States Images: 1 -
Advertisement - A.V. Roe & Co, 'Avro' Machines for Quality, Brownsfield Mills, Manchester, ...
Advertisement published in 'Flight', 23 Sept 1911, p.xiii. From Harold P. Wood Model Aircraft Collection.
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Fuselage Section - Basil Watson, 1916
Wooden wire-braced rear fuselage section of a Sopwith-type biplane built by Basil Watson at his parent's home at Brighton, Victoria in 1916. Watson has formerly been a test pilot with t ...
From: Brighton, Australia Images: 1 -
Wing Tips - Plastic, circa 1941
Two samples of the first plastic aeroplane components produced in Australia during the Second World War. The process was invented and produced by Frederick L. Cooke & Williams Pty Ltd o ...
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