Hawker Fury II ISS - Duxford Battle of Britain Airshow 2023
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2023
- Fighter Aviation Engineering's ex Iraqi Air Force Hawker Fury II/ISS (Iraqi Single Seat), G-CBEL, SR661, at Imperial War Museum, Duxford on the first day of the Battle of Britain Airshow 2023. The pilot is Steve Jones.
This is one of the few surviving airworthy Sea Fury/Fury's that still retains an original Bristol Centaurus engine, and is currently the only one in the UK to do so.
This Fury, construction number 37539 was produced by Hawker’s in 1953 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. Although 10 of the single seat aircraft for this contract were actually former Royal Navy Sea Fury FB.10 or FB.11s that were converted, this airframe was built by Hawkers as a new production model, without any of the navalised features of the Sea Fury. Amongst other things both the tail hook and folding wings were deleted.
The aircraft was bought to Orlando, Florida, USA from Iraq in 1979 by Ed Jurist and David Tallichet.
In 1989 it passed to Laws/Coleman Warbird Museum, Coleman, Texas where it was rebuilt to airworthy condition, before flying again in April 1991, registered as N36SF. It 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 markings of a Dutch Navy and latterly Royal Australian Navy aircraft marked as 361 and it was on the UK Civil Register as G-CBEL.
It was then exported to Australia where it was registered as VH-SFW. In June 2016 it was imported back into the UK by its new owners, Anglia Aircraft Restorations Ltd and re-registered again as G-CBEL.
The aircraft was 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 powered by a Bristol Centaurus 18 engine as originally fitted to production aircraft. These engines are no longer produced, very few survive and they are increasingly rare.
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Great stuff 😎👍.
A really excellent smooth display with this wonderful Hawker Fury, it looks very nice in the prototype colour scheme, and nice to see it still has it's proper engine, I hope this aeroplane goes on for many years as an example of excellence! Many thanks for posting this one Steve! Chris B.
Beast of an aeroplane! What a noise from that Centuras
Thanks for a super display, I love this aircraft, in my opinion v important as it was Camms last piston yet still deemed worthy of development and ultimately service .
We also have of course his superb Hurricanes the first monoplane fighter , now we have also a proper Tempest 2 , hopefully down the line a Tiffy and a Tempest 5, a full set
How great would it be to have them fly together ?
One day - soon hopefully. Another Tempest II close to flying in Canada and at least 2 more hopefully in the UK (although that may take a decade or so), plus Typhoon RB396 before then! My next up film will be a static walk around of Tempest II MW763 G-TEMT...tomorrow.
@@HighFlight Thankyou for the heads up looking forward to seeing it👍
@@johncrispin2118 Here's the tempest 'walk around' - th-cam.com/video/tRY5yyha8_g/w-d-xo.htmlsi=p4-dRjsdCQdg6OhK
wow what a noise