New Sea Fury on East Coast USA?
Fri Jul 22, 2005 11:59 am
Looks like Fighter Factory just picked up a new toy. Anyone have any information on this. Look like a beauty, I just can’t get an Numbers off the pictures to ID her.
http://www.fighterfactory.net/airworthy ... a-fury.php
http://www.fighterfactory.net/airworthy ... a-fury.php
Fury
Fri Jul 22, 2005 1:05 pm
Oh YEAH...
Mon Jul 25, 2005 12:10 pm
Tim et al--
This at least looks like the ex-Don Crowe Fury N60SF "Simply Magnificent". I'm astonished and delighted to see that Rotol five-blader up front...thought Mr C had replaced the Bristol with an R3350 way back when. Jerry Yagen continues to prove he has impeccable taste in airplanes.
Two RCN-marked Furies at Gennie sometime...? Ahhhh...
S. (really really pleased)
This at least looks like the ex-Don Crowe Fury N60SF "Simply Magnificent". I'm astonished and delighted to see that Rotol five-blader up front...thought Mr C had replaced the Bristol with an R3350 way back when. Jerry Yagen continues to prove he has impeccable taste in airplanes.
Two RCN-marked Furies at Gennie sometime...? Ahhhh...
S. (really really pleased)
Mon Jul 25, 2005 12:53 pm
I would say that it's N60SF, see http://www.amsaviation.com/photos.htm The Sea Fury was still in the big old WWII hangar at Boundary Bay a few months ago.
Sorry Steve, can't say I'm thrilled to see it head east, the warbird scene in BC is getting a bit thin.
On the up side, hopefully we'll see the Sea Fury fly more now that it's in new hands, it's been a bit of a hangar queen for a while.
Brian....
Sorry Steve, can't say I'm thrilled to see it head east, the warbird scene in BC is getting a bit thin.
On the up side, hopefully we'll see the Sea Fury fly more now that it's in new hands, it's been a bit of a hangar queen for a while.
Brian....
Tue Jul 26, 2005 6:35 pm
Hi Brian--
One of those pix (the head-on/wings folded view) seems to be the same one as on FF's site, so presumably Jerry Y's "new" Fury is indeed N60SF.
Re your dwindling warbird scene...being from southern Ontario I know the feeling: between 1990 and about 2000 we "lost" two Mustangs, a Seafire and an A-26; the Hurricane, Spitfire and TBM in the Mt.Hope fire; and a Corsair. For about a year there were no piston fighters flying in eastern Canada at all, unless one includes CWH's Firefly AS6 subhunter as being a variant of a fighter design. Now, of course, things have turned around, with the emergence of the Russell and Potter collections and FF's as well being fairly near "as the crow flies". And the Thomson Fury is now frequently seen on the circuit as well.
These things are always cyclical...so hang in there, stuff will start heading westward again before too long!
S.
One of those pix (the head-on/wings folded view) seems to be the same one as on FF's site, so presumably Jerry Y's "new" Fury is indeed N60SF.
Re your dwindling warbird scene...being from southern Ontario I know the feeling: between 1990 and about 2000 we "lost" two Mustangs, a Seafire and an A-26; the Hurricane, Spitfire and TBM in the Mt.Hope fire; and a Corsair. For about a year there were no piston fighters flying in eastern Canada at all, unless one includes CWH's Firefly AS6 subhunter as being a variant of a fighter design. Now, of course, things have turned around, with the emergence of the Russell and Potter collections and FF's as well being fairly near "as the crow flies". And the Thomson Fury is now frequently seen on the circuit as well.
These things are always cyclical...so hang in there, stuff will start heading westward again before too long!
S.
Tue Jul 26, 2005 7:40 pm
I like the man's taste, he knows the best looking paintscheme!
Tue Jul 26, 2005 8:20 pm
Hear, hear!
S.
S.