Originally Posted by
NutLoose
Not really when it comes down to it, design, metallurgy, tooling, manufacturing, testing, and the all important airworthiness release, I believe the MK1 spitfire props that had to be manufactured came in close to 1 mil per prop.
A long long time back I think I read that the each blade for a MkIX (Dowty Rotol?) was £25k so I can well imagine that price being authentic. As the article said, in an accident the prop is almost always a casualty.
With the Lanc, there are several other potential fliers such as Kermit Weeks' kit of parts (mainly the ex Strathallan/Charles Church KB976 plus parts from several other airframes) if his team can ever get around to them into a whole, and FM104 is potentially going to be restored to fly in Canada (it says here...! ) so spreading the cost a bit more could happen...