Hawker sea fury
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Beauty, it looks like a child from mommy spitfire and daddy FW 190.
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@ZeekWolfe1 The Sea fury Hercules engine was so powerful it required a 5 bladed prop to absorb the horsepower.
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I was at HMAS Albatross in the late 1950s when the last Sea Furies were withdrawn from service. To mark the occasion two senior pilots in Sea Furies 'beat-up' the airfield for about 10 minutes. I can tell you it was a very impressive display of action-packed flying. The RAN used them during the Korean War flying from the carrier HMAS Sydney; using rockets and 20mm cannons they could pack quite a punch.
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Peter Carmichael in a Sea Fury shot down a Mig jet in Korea!
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My grandad made the engines for these in the second world war if i recall correctly. Funny thing is taht until recently he thought that the engines he was making turned out to be no good!
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The aeroplane is fabuous.
The sound is magnificent!.
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@petrucci973 Turbo prop?? I don't think so. Dem's proper pistons in cylinders, laddie...
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@zeekwolfe perhaps if you could read you'd realise it wasn't my comment - if you have to dish out petty vitriol at least have the courtesy to direct it at the offending poster!
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I was a kid in the 1950's in Nowra, close to HMAS Albatross, the home of the Fleet Air Arm. Sea Furies were a common sight, along with Fairey Fireflies and Gannets and de Havilland Sea Venoms. My parents were friends with some of the pilots - my regret now is that I never asked them about the planes and their flying experiences, although I would have been pretty precocious to have done so!
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awesome
Magnificent! You can keep your jets that Fury is the pinnicle of perfection of piston engined flying.
Wanobi99 2 years ago 19
I fucking LOVE this plane. Have seen this same one many times at Oshkosh as a kid
WakeUpDummies 2 years ago 7