VICKERS’S DENIAL
SPARE PROPELLER WAS NOT SMALLER (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 11 a.m. LONDON, Tuesday. The Vickers firm stated officially that there is no truth whatsoever in the report that the Vellore was furnished with a propeller of smaller diameter than usual or otherwise experimental. Moir carried two, one on the engine and the other aboard the airplane. These were identical in diameter and all other respects, with the exception of the fact that the spare, which was used in the last stages of the flight, had one degree more pitch, for the reason that it had heen proved that propellers of a pitch which was suitable to temperate conditions would revolve too fast in the tropics.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 669, 22 May 1929, Page 9
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