The Hawker Sea Fury designed by Sydney Camm and manufactured by Hawker is a British naval fighter-bomber aircraft developed from the Hawker Tempest. The Hawker Sea Fury was one of the fastest production single piston-engine aircraft ever built. The Hawker Sea Fury saw its action during the Korean War in the early 1950s and as well as against the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba. The maiden flight of the Hawker Sea Fury took place on the 21st of February 1945 and it went into service on October 1945. Primary users were the Royal Navy, Royal Australian Navy, Royal Canadian Navy and the Pakistan Air Force. There were approx. 864 Hawker Sea Fury produced between 1945 and 1955. The Hawker Sea Fury has retired from active service.
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Clip 1: RAN Hawker Sea Fury Nos 106, 101 and 108 taxi and then take off and Low level display of formation flying over airfield New South Wales 1953
Clip 2: Hawker Sea Fury Nos 105, 114, 118 Landings on the aircraft carrier HMAS Sydney 1949
Source: Australian War Memorial
Film1: Air shows and RAN Sea Furies Nowra circa 1953
Film2: HMAS Sydney deck landings 19 August 1949
Music: Huma Huma - Cielos
Type: Standard You Tube License
Video consists of edited silent film clips from the AWM home collection ID: F04944 and F04978. Aircraft and music sound has been added.
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