rdd@ukc.ac.uk (Rudnei Dias da Cunha) (07/31/90)
From: Rudnei Dias da Cunha <rdd@ukc.ac.uk> >From: ran el-Yaniv <yaniv%mush.huji.ac.il@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU> >The original Mk. I Spitfire had a two blade, fixed propeller. All war variants >had 3 blade propellers with variable pitch. Late model (post-war) Griffon >engined Spitfires may have had more blades. The late Spitfire versions powered by Rolls-Royce Griffon engines, which were used in WW2, had propellers with 4 and 5 blades. Post-war versions had propellers with seven blades and the F.Mk22 had contra-rotating propellers, each one with 5 blades. Also, the Spitfire HF.MkVIII, designed for high-altitude service (only a few were developed, possibly twelve), had a four blade propeller. It was introduced in 1942. Rudnei Dias da Cunha rdd@ukc.ac.uk Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury