Do you know by now any machine not by human beings? If so you must have been either: 1 abducted by aliens 2 be a time traveler Btw Tools does not count!😉😉😉
I was a Sea Cadet, in the Navy League in 1952. I had been given to have leave from school to go away with the HMAS Cootamundra for a week. Before we anchored in Jervis Bay, a Sea Fury flew over, real close and the pilot gave us a wave. I actually thought he was waving at me personally!
Yes - but this has a better chance of staying in the air due to the higher reliability of the R-2800. Just look at how many Centaurus’ have had in flight failures in recent years.@@michaelgray7847
Saw one the Australian Navy Sea Fury flying around HMAS Cerberus in Victoria, Australia during the 1960/70's, towing a drone which was used for Gunnery practice at the Navy establishment training depot. An absolutely awesome sound. I will never forget it.
A few years ago I was lucky to pull into Yeoviltons (HMS Heron) museum car park just as they were starting to put their Fury through its paces. As I climbed out of the car that engine note hit me and I froze in sheer awe watching the pilot, presumably, practising his airshow routine. I think that if a fire breathing dragon had appeared and started flying around I couldn't have been more awestruck. Hmm... well I suppose some may say that's what it is ;)
Several years ago I took my father to RNAS Yoevilton to the FAA museum. He walked up to Carmichaels Sea Fury, stroked it and said, "I used to work on this Aeroplane." RIP Dad.
Always an impressive performer of their era, so graceful to watch. The sound is also equally evocative of piston engined aircraft at their peak of development. What more could you want! Simply fabulous.😉👍
Bristol Centaurus is an entirely different kind of radial than the Pratts. It is a sleeve valve engine as opposed to the Pratt, which is a poppet valve engine.
Benny Hill - This Fury is NOT powered by its original 54l engine. For ease of maintenance, it's packing a Pratt & Whitney R2800, an equally legendary engine, but quite a bit smaller at ~46l.
@@Jack-bs6zb I just like Benny Hill so using his name. Nothing else behind it. May change it one day to Ducky Duck to match the name with the picture, hehe.
Saw a Sea Fury at an early Wanaka show - its speed and vertical power were stunning. One of the best shows, with the Hanna’s flying their BF109 and Spitfire and an unpainted freshly restored Kittyhawk being flown hard among the many highlights.
I had the pleasure of seeing a Sea Fury regularly, when I was in the RAAF, in Darwin, it lived in the hangar and was taken out regularly by the owner for flights. Occasionally, when civillian air trafic was low he did low level passes up the strip, never a better sound or sight.
Yep that was Guido Zuccoli who had a huge workshop in Winnellie next to the airport where he employed specialist engineers to restore ww2 aircraft and sold them all over the world. Guido had many gifts, among them a mathematical skill which was legendary. He was a great cook and loved experimenting with exotic dishes, preserves and making genuine Italian salamis. He had a love of Opera, but above everything a love of life itself. His view on life was summed up with his oft used quote ... “If I die tomorrow, I can say I have done everything I have dreamt of doing. I have a wonderful life.” Sadly, that wonderful life ended in 1997. The WW II Harvard aircraft he was flying had a catastrophic engine failure on take-off from Tindal (the RAAF and Civilian airport at Katherine, NT).
The plane is Christophe Jacquard's one. The pilot is Bruno Ducreux the boss of Aero Restauration Service in France. He was my boss in 2005/2007. A great and pationate person and a wonderfull aerobatic pilot!
That's a pretty fantastic sounding bird for sure. I always listen for the higher pitch supercharger preceding the engine growl during low fly dive passes.
This is one beautiful fighter , It almost looks like a spitfire with the end of the wings squared off and a little longer nose that’s rounded which gives it a really nice look.
I disagree completely. Seeing the smoke join into rings and curl into fantastic geometric shapes was fascinating. I kinda wish there was a second camera watching the planes wash effect on the smoke.
It’s correct engine was significantly more efficient per CC than the P&W installed, the engine had significantly more development potential which wasn’t pursued due to the advent of the jet age.
@@VellaCharles thanks for the reply, I'm in New Zealand. So sorry, wont be making purchase, postage would be more than the model. Lol thumbs up with your build though
Ich weiß noch das display 2013 von der hahnweide, das hab ich heute noch als legendär in erinnerung, wie dieser flieger mit einem affenzahn in riesigen kreisen hin und her flog.
Ummm... Are you sure that's got a Bristol Centaurus in it? Many Sea Furies got converted to the Wright R-3350. The two external tells for that, the original Centaurus cowling is slightly shorter and thicker, and the Centaurus engines usually swung a 5 bladed prop. So you could easily bolt on a simpler 4 blade prop, right? Um, ... it's not that simple. There's something about the torsional flex in the crankshaft and the size and weight and design of the prop, I don't pretend to understand, but going from a 5 blade to a 4 blade would require some pretty significant internal modifications to the engine. Secondly, as an Australian and an enthusiast, that aircraft was sold by the Australian Navy a couple of years before I was born, and it ended up in Europe, in the original Australian Navy colours, and I understand they did the Wright R-3350 swap to it. Now perhaps I'm wrong and there are two of them or something, but I'd be 80% confident that is the same aircraft and it now has an American engine in it. 60 or 70 years later, it's much simpler and easier to keep the R-3350 running than the sleeve-valve Centaurus. It's not that it's a bad engine or anything, it's just that nobody today works with or has any familiarity with sleeve valve engines. It was not exactly a common design in 1946 ~ 48, but today it's a unique freak-show.
@@lapisredux ~ LOL, I'm sorry. I should have done a bit more reading. I've been arguing on a motorcycle forum with an Australian Trump supporter who's screaming at me about the hatred that's coming from the Left, and ... I came over here to get away from that, because he was getting under my skin. Yes, I am guilty of prejudice. I don't like morons....
@@lapisredux Anybody know of any Centaurus engined planes (Sea Fury or others) still flying? We are lucky that the P & W engines match the Centaurus so closely and mean that the Sea Fury can keep flying - all Centaurus engines must now be out of service and no spares available.
I would rather give them to Hugh Dowding and say 'I have an idea, lets give this to Mr. Hawker and Mr A.V. Roe'. Besides, the FW.190 did not have a radial engine, it just looked like it had a radial engine. One can see the design influences of the Hawker Tempest in the wing and fuselage profile.
Its was built to compete with the FW-190D. The Sea Fury is a beautiful aircraft with a nasty bite. I can say my grandfather flew that plane in the early 60s, he said the Sea Fury was one of the best aircraft he ever flew. Great Video thank you. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
@@conorf8091 Sadly my life is too busy for that (and those games are too addictive) But I have 2 games on my phone, one with tanks and one with planes, my Me 262 and Bf 109 G6 are painted black/blue actually (with some yellow markings) and they look great, this plane reminded me of them
When did the RAN have this colour scheme - I have tracked video back to 1951 when the Sea Fury had the dark grey over light grey (green) scheme. The first Sea Furies were delievered to HMAS Sydney in the UK in 1949 two years earlier so is this Blue actually a British colour already on the delivered aircraft and changed when the aircraft got back to Australia in late 1949.
Looking at the side profile when I read your comment. Definitely saw the resemblance. If what is said is true about it being designed and based on a captured 190....that make sense it would look similar lol. However the other dude says it isn't true. Guess I'll just have to go do the reading myself lol.
Never seemed to working at the edge of the envelope at anytime,no stress, not even breathing hard. Looked like Dobermann going for quick lope in the park. The smoke was a bit overdone, a quarter of that volume would have been the right effect.
Ranks top in my Warbirds list, the Bristol Centaur is simply the best sounding radial, that deep and powerful sound projects what the plane is capable of. Stunning display, and amazing too how long the wingtip vortexes stayed intact, it must have been a wind still day.
The Wright Cyclone R-3350 also powered our 4 engine Martin Mars fire fighting flying boats (now inactive). Cool to see and hear a single R-3350 engine at full power and high speed unlike the larger slower multi engine planes like the Mars.
@@justaskmeiknow5584 Nah, I was more thinking about visible changes in lift when pulling up, and how the trails connect into rings when touching. But they do show the tip vortices, which are connected to induced drag. So, yeah, that's there, too.
@@HotelPapa100 I see a lot of turbulence within the vortices themselves probably due to the rounded wingtips... laminar flow back then was probably something that wasn't being applied to air foils
@@justaskmeiknow5584 The Sea Fury has a shortened Tempest wing, which differed from the predecessor, the Typhoon, in that it actually DID employ a laminar flow airfoil. But forget laminar flow at the wingtip. It's just not going to happen, certainly not over a wide range of lift coefficients. But what you see in these smoke trails isn't the boundary layer vorticity anyway, it's larger scale macroscopic turbulence, caused, among other influences, by the turbulence already present in the atmosphere.
its special when u see a plane with exactly the same paintjob u have in war thunder, but then u wonder whos that lucky guy who gets to fly the real thing
Think this is the Pratt and Whitney version - 4 bladed prop, not the Bristol centaurus. Beautiful aircraft, wish I had the dollars and skill to fly one
