Paragon Curtiss HS-1 1917 US NAVY World War 1 Flying Boat Wooden Airplane Propeller

Paragon HS-1 Wood Airplane Propeller Made by the most famous propeller manufacturer of World War 1 (The American Propeller Company of Baltimore, Maryland) This original airplane propeller was used on the Curtiss HS-1 US NAVY Flying Boat Airplane during World War 1.    In late 1916, the Curtiss Aeroplane Company produced a new twin-engined flying boat, which was smaller than both the current Curtiss H-12 being built for Britain's Royal Naval Air Service and the earlier Curtiss H-4, with the new design given the factory designation Model H-14, although its design was unrelated to earlier Model H variants. The H-14 was a conventional unequal-span, unstaggered biplane, powered by two 100 hp (75 kW) pusher Curtiss OXX engines mounted between the wings. An order for 16 was placed by the United States Army before the prototype flew, but the prototype was disappointing and the US Army cancelled its order for H-14s.The prototype was converted to a single-engined aircraft powered by a 200 hp (14