73.2" Propellers

Wood propellers used to be replaced as often as tires. Old ones were usually taken home, completed with a clock, and hung over the mantel. Mechanics, pilots, flight-crew. They wore propeller tiepins and badges and transformed propellers into memorabilia...

Wood propellers used to be replaced as often as tires. Old ones were usually taken home, completed with a clock, and hung over the mantel. Mechanics, pilots, flight-crew. They wore propeller tiepins and badges and transformed propellers into memorabilia...

THE SOPWITH WAS THE MAINSTAY FIGHTER-PLANE OF THE BRITISH AND USA AIR FORCES IN THE EARLY 1900S. BRIGHTLY PAINTED IN VARIOUS NATIONAL COLORS, IT RULED THE SKIES FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS. SOME OF THE PROPELLERS WERE LATER SUPPLED BY AN AMERICAN PROPELLER...