Hawker Sea Fury - Power of the Centaurus
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2016
- This aircraft (construction number 37539) was produced by Hawker's as a Fury ISS (Iraqi Single Seat) for the Iraqi Air Force, as part of contract number 53/1/012 for 60 aircraft, and was numbered 315 within this production batch.
The aircraft was recovered to Orlando, Florida, USA from Iraq in 1979 by Ed Jurist and David C Tallichet. In 1989 the aircraft passed to W.R. Laws/Coleman Warbird Museum, Coleman,Texas where it was rebuilt to airworthy condition, before flying again in April 1991, registered as N36SF.
The Fury was then shipped to the UK in September 1991, passing into the ownership of John Bradshaw at Wroughton until 2009.
During this time the aircraft flew in the hybrid markings of a Dutch Navy and latterly Royal Australian Navy aircraft marked as 361 and
on the UK Civil Register as G-CBEL.
She was then exported to Australia where it was registered as VH-SFW.
Recently imported back into the UK by her new owners, Anglia Aircraft Restorations Ltd, she has been re registered again as G-CBEL.
The aircraft has been refurbished and repainted, by Air Leasing Ltd, in the colours of one of Hawker's Sea Fury prototypes coded SR661, which was a modified Fury Mk.II with a tail hook fitted, but without the folding wings included on subsequent production Sea Fury's.
The aircraft is now registered to Fighter Aviation Engineering, which is a 'sister' company of Anglia Aircraft Restorations. It's operated by Air Leasing, based at Sywell and IWM Duxford.
History:
Delivered to Iraqi AF as 315, 19??.
Ed Jurist & David C. Tallichet, Orlando, FL, 1979.
- Registered as N36SF.
- Recovered from Iraq.
- Stored dismantled in Orlando, FL.
Ed Jurist/Vintage Aircraft International, Nyack, NY, August 1979-1988.
- Restored to airworthy, Coleman, TX.
- First flight, April 1991.
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An old man now, I used to work on the Centaurus when I was an apprentice at Patchway, Bristol. Best days of my life !
Wonderful. I bet if they put you in front of a Centaurus now and said ‘fix that’, you’d do it in no time, provided that you had the right tools?
Ps. ‘Old’ is just another word for experience and wisdom!
@@HighFlight with my eyes closed. Let me loose on a hercules too.
...also got my hands dirty on the Merlin, Gyron junior, orpheus, Olympus, sapphire, M45, pegasus, nimbus, proteus, viper and and and
@@adriftonthelot4692 Without which none of the RAF aircraft of the 40s, 50s and 60s could possibly have flown - a legacy of experience to be proud of.
May 1944 My father was posted to the Centaurus Flight at RAF Filton as an RAF Test Pilot responsible for the development of the new Centaurus engine flying many, Centaurus engined, aircraft.
While the Spitfire is a no doubt one of the most beautiful planes ever to exist, there is some kind of brutal honesty in the Hawker designs, that really appeals to my taste. Nice video and thank you so much for not ruining it with music! (:
Thankyou. I agree with you too regarding the Spitfire, Hawkers and the music, which is of course provided by the sound of that massive Bristol Centaurus!
The elliptical wing shape had to borrowed from the Spitfire.
@@theguitaraholic3951 I wondered too if that distinctive trailing edge was borrowed from the Spitfire, along with bits of the Fw 190; maybe Tank, Mitchell and Camm are all in aviator's heaven now arguing who the father of the baby was :-)
I was lucky enough to see a Sea Fury displayed by Robbie Booth at Dairy Flat New Zealand in the mid nineties. Allways stuck in my mind. He displayed it very well. Making the most of its vertical performance. Had the Centaurus at the time. Amazing sound. Apparently most have been repowered by R2800's due to lack of sleeves. Sad.
Hawker made some incredible aircraft, and everyone although over shadowed by the Spitfire you cannot get past the superb Hurricane, Typhoon, Tempest and Fury. Each one was more than enough to hold its own as fighters, fighter bombers and just bloody brilliant planes
The zenith of piston aircraft fighter design! That engine - the zenith of the internal combustion! Perfection!
martinbayliss and over engineered, complicated, maintainence hungry piece of junk why you do not see many flying today !!!
I sure would like to see the charts on parasitical HP loss sleeve valve VS push rod valve spring type .. Does the sleeve valve flow better?? Do the sleeves seal better?? Hopefully it does something better because a more complicated engine design would be difficult to find.
What a beautiful deadly beast, born in an era when it was essential.
That landing was beyond textbook 🫡
Always a pleasure to hear a Centaurus ! LONG LIVE THE SEA FURY!!!!!!
Both looking and sounding great. What a classic warbird!
The Bristol sleeve valve engines weren’t called “whispering death” for nothing!
I spent 10 years in Canadian naval aviation back in the 1950's. We had about 40 operational Sea furies at the time. Hell of an aircraft. Would give the Corsair and F8F a run for their money.
BOTH families of planes are fantastic, and complemented each other brilliantly. Safe to say North Korea still gets nightmares every time one of them takes to the sky.
I gotta suggest combat between them to the guys who do that rt of thing on you tube.
Sea Fury and Corsair, both fantastic!
P51
Why didn't the British swap engines on the lend-lease Corsair. If they got the airframes without engines,it would've simplified maintenance.
Kurt Tank approves.
The Sea Fury and the F8f Bearcat, those were to the top props in fighters, hands down...last generation before the jets.
Spitfire Mk24??
@@gazza2933 nah warthunder has it wrong
Totally agree. Love both planes! Hope to see a fury in person some day. For now, I can't get enough video footage of this plane. Also, ever hear the sound of a tigercat? Almost brings tears lol
Always brings tears to my eyes the Fury was one of the greats, just a year late to have made the impact it truly deserved..
A beautiful and powerful aircraft. We are fortunate to be able to still see many flying.
Thats got to be the best landing i have ever seen, good job
Agreed. As smooth as grease on silk. ( :
How it is done, 10/10.
The real sleeve valve deal . . . Luv it . Luv it . Luv it. Loud and badass like no Wright R 3350 sounds. Thanks for posting.
Watching this reminds me of my late father taking me to airshows and telling young me about this being the ultimate piston engined fighter.....
I have to hand it to the Brittish. They produced some beautiful, sleek looking, aircraft. I love the looks of the Sea Fury
Fastest military ordered piston engined plane ever..
@@YuriVriesema You'd probably be correct regarding production fighters that saw operational use, however, there is another Hawker design worth noting that not many people aren't aware of.
In 44' the British air ministry and, Hawker likewise, experimented with various exotic engine layouts and powertrains etc, and one of those is what I'd consider the final iteration of the Tempest. It's called the Tempest LA610 (a prototype displayed at Radlett's annual SBAC airshow). This version of the Tempest boasted a 3500hp Napier Sabre 7 powertrain. It's said it was capable of 485mph, or 780ish kph. I'd assume in favourable conditions on War Emergency Power this could have exceeded 800kph, especially considering the superior aerodynamics compared to the Sea Fury as this was not a radial. It was also in the ministties interests not to destroy limited test prototypes as there were only 2 built, so I assume this airframe was never pushed beyond what it was truly capable, however that can always be said for any aircraft.
It would be awesome if I could dig out some pilots notes, however, I couldn't find anything legit, so we'll just have to take those numbers with a pinch of salt.
I'd say other notable mentions could include the German Dornier 335, the H model 51 stang, the Bearcat, probably the late mk 20 Spitfires and Seafire Fr 47 alike. I'd probably also say the Tempest mk II which bears an uncanny resemblance to the Sea Fury, although it was developed in conjunction with the Fury where many of the primary components are the same.
Either way, I'd say most late war piston fighters could all reach into that magic 700+ pocket.
@@YuriVriesema I think the fastest production piston engined aircraft was the De Havilland Hornet
Mr Loominati
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thank you.
Super amazing warbird!!!!!
This is hands down the most impressive piston engined fighter plane ever,superb and incredible.
Certainly it is, of those that made it into production. If only the Martin Baker MB5 had done so, but sadly not!
Sadly many great designs never made it into production.The problem is usually cost, complete lack of foresight and the wrong people making wrong decisions as well as time moving on.
@@posniknelb6114 So true. I think in the case of the MB5 it was the end of WW2 and the appearance of the Jet engine, which also resulted in the Fury/Sea Fury being one of the last piston engine prop driven fighter aircraft.
The ww2 era piston engined fighters and bombers will always be my favourites.I would take a spitfire over a eurofighter typhoon any day of the week.
@@posniknelb6114 Agreed, but maybe I'd take a Hawker Typhoon over a Spitfire?
A fun time can be had looking up the family of Hawker aircraft from the 1930s biplanes, such as the Hawker Demon, Hector, and several others, the smaller biplane fighters that derieved from them, the Hawker Nimrod and Fury, the Fury II and High-Speed Fury. This designwas completely revised as the monoplane Hurricane, which had two 'sister' designs in the Hawker Henley and Hotspur, a turret-fighter, popular at the time.
The Hurricane was to be replaced by a modernised Typhoon,
the Tornado had a number of prototypes with various engines,
which resulted in two parallel designs the Fury and the Tempest.
The Sea Fury, Tempest II and V all went into service,
then the Hawk and Sea Hawk jets replaced the whole series, eventually going through a number of prototypes where the swept wing was introduced, resulting in the Hawker Hunter, a major international success.
More modern designs of interceptors such as the Hawker P.1154 were cancelled and Hawker fell into the mess of the Government's hatred of having more than one designer and builder, from which we have yet to recover.
That fury sounds truly amazing 👏
when it will start and run !!!!
Reasonably good landing.
Dry as a dead dingos donger JG lol
Love this aircraft . Must be the best single engine piston powered aircraft ever.
That engine and prop combination sound beats all comers. There's nothing like a Sea Fury with a Centaurus and a 5 blade prop doing a high speed pass.
What a Beauty!
A genuine beast. Favorite plane in the world.
Just the most awesome thoroughbred.Always loved these since my first Frog kit bought from a steam rally at Ardingly for 10p in 1976.Adore that Centaurus crackle on take off and the beautiful proportions of that airframe.
1976 - now, that was a good year!
Absolutely!
@Baz Bazdad Thanks. I didn't know that was the year that FROG folded - as you say, not so good for them!
@Baz Bazdad FROG=Flies Right of the Ground.
LOVE THAT ENGINE I saw the cu tout unit at Bristol air museum what a beauty that was to watch slowly rotate .
What a beautiful beast with a fantastic pilot that can stick a wheel landing.
What a fantastic sounding beast
Greaser landing to end a great show, thanks for sharing it.
While I'm a tad more partial to the R-3350 and R-2800 (I'm from the U.S. I can't help it!)
I really love the sound of the Centaurus too, wish there was more around!
Probably the best sounding radial engine, noise wise. It's almost like an inline V-series liquid cooled engine.. All in all, TOTALLY BAD ASS!!...GREAT WHEEL landing also..
Here's a recent engine run and walk around of the same aircraft - ua-cam.com/video/kvkIVKaZU1Y/v-deo.html
covertops and how many are left around today ?????
The Brits sure can design beautiful aircraft.
*Why would they design an Obsolete airplane though*
Escape for Mankind is Keith Johnson ever heard of the Douglas Skyraider?? Served with effect in Vietnam, your view is over simplified.
Why thank you, very gracious of you.
Brits were the #1 in design I have to say. But I could not have a favorite, there are many Sexy warplanes that existed and served that is hard to choose...
Escape for Mankind is Keith Johnson tell the pilots of the migs shot down in Korea that this aircraft was obsolete. You shouldn’t let your ignorance of facts show so easily in your UA-cam comments otherwise people will assume you live under a bridge.🙄
Saw one of these at an airshow a number of years ago. Simply breathtaking even in the company of a Spitfire and a Mustang.
We had Furies in our air force during the early days. I don’t think Spitfires or Mustangs, even in later souped-up versions, would have matched them in raw performance. However, they pretty much represented the last gasp of piston-engined fighters
An excellent piston engine aircraft in the dawn of the jet age
Sea Fury is second to none, period.
What a beautiful machine with an awesome engine!
Nice seeing a de Havilland Canada Dash 7 in the background, on the ground near the start.
Yes, that's the British Antarctic Survey's Dash 7, VP-FBO. I'm sure that I have some film of her somewhere? 😊
Beautiful aircraft. Superbly engineered.
Seemingly effortless from take off to landing. Wonderful!
Look up Hawker Fury LA610.
What a great video, thank you very much.
I just love the Fury, just an absolute beautiful air plane.
Thanks, it was a joy to film. Yes, a lovely aeroplane - one of the great's.
Just hearing that engine makes the hair's on my arms stand up
In real life they are even better. IMHO they beat the stuffing out of the Merlin (which have always found rather bland). This is a good recording of it, save for the chatterboxes in the background but the fact you can hear them gives some idea how quiet it is by comparison with other types.
Yeah I also wished he could have straffed the trainspoters
I live in Centaurus road. Renamed in the early '50's evidently by someone who used to like planes. True story. It used to be Port Hills Road.
Hi there from Templeton
My interest was piqued by this, so I did a little research. Christchurch Library have a record that says how Centaurus Road came to be so named. It was named in February 1938 after the Imperial Airways flying-boat 'Centaurus' which made it's first visit to South Island, New Zealand at Lyttelton in January 1938. Here's a link to the record - christchurchcitylibraries.com/Heritage/PlaceNames/ChristchurchStreetNames-C.pdf
and a link to a newspaper report of the time about the renaming of the road - paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19380226.2.88?end_date=26-02-1938&items_per_page=10&phrase=2&query=Centaurus+&snippet=true&start_date=26-02-1938
and also a link to an online article about the event itself - lostchristchurch.wordpress.com/2016/11/11/a-great-pilgrimage-over-the-clouds/
wow that sound is just awesome
That is one beast of an engine...
Beautiful aircraft - what a sound!
Nice Video, i love the Sea Fury and the Centaurus Sound. Saw another Sea Fury at Breitscheid Airshow here in Germany, it's a real beast! I fly a small electric powered RC Model of the Fury, it flies very well! Kind regards from Germany
Thankyou. The one you saw at Breitscheid would have been this one, seen here at Duxford in 2013 - ua-cam.com/video/qD06WZnJhB0/v-deo.html - beauty, power and grace in one. Your RC model sounds very good. Lets hope we get to see more of these beauties flying in the future - our Royal Navy Historic Flight Sea Fury trainer will be back in the air this year with a single seater to follow shortly. Best wishes from England.
To you also from Cornwall.
Absolute beast of an aircraft!
Excellent footage of a terrific aeroplane! Fantastic engine sound and a muscular display... Love it!
Thanks. It was a joy to film and watch. Hopefully see more this year as she's now based at Duxford.
Fourth video tonight watching the Fury. What a majestic beast!!! And its engine acoustics rival the in-line Merlin!!!! Cheers from a Swindon born Yank 👍👍👍👍
Thanks and I'm pleased that you enjoyed the film. 🙃👍
What a beautiful piece of machinery. Nicely shot too. Thanks for posting.
It's a pleasure and thank you.
Beautiful plane..
Hawker during WWII made some badass airplanes. Too bad it was too little too late.
"Sleeve Valve" engine sound so much "throatyer" than the traditional overhead valve engine! 👍
What genius engineering back then! 🇬🇧
👍🇺🇲🇬🇧
Powerful and beautiful. I love this plane.
What a beautiful aircraft, that sound! From the days when Britain could build aircraft like this.
Where did it all go wrong?
these are the kind of airplanes that make me wish jet engines hadnt been invented
Love that Centaurus sound.
Rest in peace, Howard Pardue!
Amazing the difference in sound to a Merlin or Griffon. The radials always sound beefy and angry...like it's spoiling for a fight
That Centaurus sounds great, so many of these have an R-2800 swap.
Damn good camera work of a beautiful air craft English style.
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it and hopefully there will be more just as soon as we can all get out of 'lockdown'?😊👍
Following the terrific Tempest, this 'Hawker Spitfire' would have decimated the opposition had WWII lasted longer. I am a former student apprentice at RAE Farnborough.
A beautiful machine.
This plane was the criterion of the series : it was putting out almost 2,500 HP . A lot of power placed in the hands of well trained dedicate pilots.
Just by sound and looks this aircraft feels strong.
Damn smooth landing!!
You would want to be the enemy hearing that sound coming towards you truly frightening
wouldn't
Amazing.
What a stunner! Britain at it's best!
Another ex-Iraqi Fury, VH SHF 1953 Hawker Sea Fury MKII located at Archerfield, Queensland, Australia, was sold at auction today. In excellent flying condition and with AFTT 366hrs, the Centaurus had 303.16hrs, Prop 247, prob'ly lowest time of any Fury
That's a beautiful looking Sea Fury in naval colours. Do you know who bought it?
Great plane, great video, thanks !
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it.
That centaurus is all the music you will ever need in a video.well done to the guys who brought this beauty back
OOOOOF!!! Whatta beast!! Love it!
I met an old fellow back in the 90's who told me he flew those at sea back in the day. He was surprised to hear me say I'd seen one flying let alone heard of them. He said that for takeoff they started out pointed 45 degrees off the side of the ship and stood on the one brake while firewalling it. There was so much P factor on that huge prop that the technique was what it took to get it rolling straight. He said that takeoff scared hell out of him until he got used to it. Must not have had a catapult I guess.
Love that powerful engine burble as she touches down. Great dvd
Thankyou. I hope to film her again over the next few months, hopefully together with WG655 The Fighter Collection's Sea Fury - now that would be good too!
Gigantic propeller :)
These planes were absolute animals. Listen to the raw power.
Compliments to the camera man/lady :-) Amazing work.
Thankyou
Jolly Good show.
Gorgeous beast.
How is that for a landing !! Sweet.
*Amazing video, keep it up bros!!!*
Thanks, I will.👍
There was a Centaurus powered Sea Fury in New Zealand for a few years, it was a privilege to see it displayed at airshows the Centaurus seemed a smooth an quiet engine compared to a poppet valve motors. I had a friend in the RNZAF who worked on the Bristol Hercules also a sleeve valve engine which were used on the Bristol Freighters. He said when one of the sleeve drive mechanisms failed it was absolute carnage for the engine.
I worked on Hercules engines - no valves to adjust! We never had a sleeve drive mechanism fail. This was in 1968-9. The exhaust was complicated and difficult to repair.
I've had the opportunity to sit in one at Darwin international airport and then hear her start up then beat down the main runway flat out...the sound of her Bristol Centaurus in full song. Her whistle growl was BLOODY amazzzing
For all you "tail draggers", that is how to land an aircraft. No bounce at all. Whisper smooth even the baby didn't wake up.
Absolutely beautiful! ~Ian
One day this will be how good your Typhoon looks!👍🙃
@@HighFlight Working on it! ~Ian
It's probably the best example of a propeller-driven airplane. And beautiful into the bargain.
*Actually it was a useless airplane, which is why so few were made*
Perhaps useless in its time but still beautiful.
''Escape for Mankind is Keith Johnson''............ You sound just like some other ''troll'' by the name of ''soaring tractor'' or is it ''boring factor?'' ...aka Wilbur Finnigan. Who's only seeming aim in life is to poison everything ''British'' on here.
Escape is just a troll. If we just ignore him he may go back under his bridge and go back to sniffing his modelling glue!
@@Ford_Raptor_R_720hp_V8 the only useless person in the world is you 🤡
What a powerful monster. Has a bit of the whine of the F4U Corsair, another radial monster of the air. Love it.
There is something majestic about a radial engine fighter!
That is a wonderful airplane. It looks a little bit like the big brother of the FW 190 A.
What a majestic bird !
Totally. And one of my favourites!
Mine as well among many,
Our Royal Navy Historic Flights Sea Fury T20 returned home to her base at Yeovilton today after a 2 year rebuild, following a forced wheels up landing with a dead engine. Another beautiful piece of history back in the air where she belongs!
AWESOME! Shutter Speed Perfect!
Thanks. Filmed at 1/50!👍
@@HighFlight You're welcome.
superb. what an engine! what an aeroplane. Ho does the pilot see when taxing and taking off? the fuselage angle seems to preclude forward vision?
Due to the poor view from the cockpit while ground taxiing the pilot has to 'snake' the aircraft left and right to get a view. The landing run will have been checked before touchdown but to ensure good visibility an angled approach would first be made.
Its one hell of aircraft . I hope that a hawker typhoon or tempest gets airworthy some day .
Hawker Tempest Mk.II MW763/G-TEMT has been restored, is also owned by the owner of this Sea Fury and is awaiting its first flight, which will hopefully be very soon and during this coming year. Typhoon RB396 is currently being rebuilt by Airframe Assemblies on the Isle of Wight, but is some years from completion.
@@HighFlight thanks for the information 👍
I was blessed to attend Oshkosh 2000
Saw Getchel's Centaurus powered Sea Fury
and
Odegaard's race 57 Super Corsair.Great stuff!
Got pictures,and a Corsair tee shirt, but the thing that has stayed with this old man,
is the sound, the very unique sound, of these two aircraft running up,taxiing,
and low altitude passes.
If 100/130 and 100LL is so bad,
why does it smell so good?
:D
What an amazing experience. One day I intend to get to Oshkosh...🙃👍
Where is Ellsworth Getchell’s Fury nowadays? I used to see him with it often on the West Coast in the 1980s.
@@88SC He has got to be in his mid eighties at this point,if he is even still with us
@@88SC It was de-registered with the FAA in 2018, but part of his obituary of 30 Dec 2020 says - 'It was Ellsworth's desire that his worldly resources be dedicated toward the continued maintenance and operation of his Hawker Sea Fury as well as the support of promising students in aviation and the sciences. The Ellsworth Hovey Getchell Foundation was created to ensure his legacy lives on.'
@@HighFlight sad to hear of his passing, but thanks for the update. Hopefully it means 105 will take to the air again, Centaurus and all. With all due care.
Awesome plane. You don't see many with the Centaurus any longer.
bernardtheforth they were junk engines, a maintainence nightmare !!!!
@@wilburfinnigan2142 I just like the 5 blade prop really. Makes the plane for me.
What's it like keeping that sleeve-valved engine running? I heard it was a tricky engine type even back in the day, when dedicated machine equipment, not to mention factory spare parts, were available.
Great video! Incredible engine and aircraft. I was hoping to see a max performance roll as it could roll at 100°/second. Thanks for this video..real history on view!
Thank you and I'm glad that you enjoyed this. I didn't know that they had that sort of a roll rate. Impressive. I don't recall ever seeing one do that at an airshow but it would be good to see!👍
What a monster !!
I absolutely LOVE the Sea Fury. She is stunning in both sound and performance, never mind looks. This and the P-51D - the most beautiful piston-powered aircraft ever built as far as I’m concerned. They tug my heartstrings whenever I see and hear either. Simply gorgeous!❤️
Thankyou. I certainly agree with you on both counts. This Sea Fury is undoubtedly one of my all time favourites!
Sea Fury and Corsair for me! Can't beat those radial engines! Okay, I'll give you the P-51D but only if you take the Spitfire MKXIV with the bubble canopy!
So very true. Its just a shame that the Sabre powered Fury never flew out of prototype thanks to the jet age, it was Both the fastest (nearly 500mph) and arguably the most beautiful of the Furies and thats saying something in this company. I agree too about the Spit, the last of the Spitfires (Mk22/ 23/24) for me were the most stunningly beautiful of them all.