Woodwork by bmac62
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I have always marveled at the obvious effort put into constructing old wooden propellers.
Here is just such a work of "art". This propeller was hand carved in the 1960s by a former Boeing Flight Test Engineer and a few of his friends from a ten foot club of laminated birch.
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Bill:)
Some of you will ask...what's the airplane? It is a Curtiss JN-4D-2 replica of a World War I vintage "Jenny". The builder first flew this airplane in 1969 and donated it to the Combat Air Museum in Topeka, Kansas in 1985. He built the aircraft from the original plans. It has a rip roaring top speed of 62mph :-)
Comments (38)
orig_buggy
beautiful work and detail they put into that!
elfin12u
Almost another lost art, It seems that the days of craftsman is near an end. Even machinists are becoming a rare commodity now days, we have kids coming out of the tech schools that can't even read or get the proper feel of a micrometer. they know how to push a button, I recall grinding my own tooling to cut a radius or hook groove. There is so much that will be lost with the passing of our generation and the one before. Great shot!
dbrv6
Thats so amazing. Does not matter how fast - it looks good standing still.
frankie96
Another work of craftmanship..too bad it's not prevelant anymore...
myrrhluz
I love carved wood and this is beautiful! Great image!
Chipka
This is incredibly crisp and clear and I love the wooden propeller. It's funny that so many aircraft were once built with non-aircraft materials and this brings that point home perfectly! There's such artistry involved in this, as well as engineering and good old fashioned human skill. I love humans for their ingenuity and ability to improvise and this shows all of that gloriously. I also love the rich colors here, the limited palate and such just adds wonderful harmony to the image. Great work.
arlivre
Wonderful capture, so perfect it looks like a render made in a 3D software :)
tennesseecowgirl
what a beauty.. :)