Hawker Sea Fury

[The Inspector]

I did indeed mean to mention the CAA in my post rather than a broad, generalized statement, but it still is puzzling considering that as badly hosed up our FAA is you can still manage to STC some pretty serious modifications to an airplane along a fairly straight line path, of course a great deal depends on the local FSDO Office. Some are fairly common sense and others wouldn't let God ride on a cloud.

[lovevintageaviation]

Sea Fury 308 ex-HFG is a wonderful aircraft had the pleasure of seeing it fly at Aus airshows a couple of times and was there when she was readied for transport. Absolute beauty.

below is an image of a Fury FB II one of two Centaurus powered Fury's/Sea fury's in Aus.

[Chappie]

Man. Now that's pretty!!


Chappie

[Steve T]

Ah, the Fury: my very favourite...

Here are four that were Centaurus-powered when photographed. Two still are, being the two static display airframes which are in Canadian museums. Of the other two, one crashed fatally three months after the pic was taken, and the other later became the 2006 Reno Gold champ "September Fury" with an R3350 up front.

TG119, Canada Aviation Museum (then--now Canada Aviation & Space Museum), Ottawa, Ontario...


WG565, Naval Museum of Alberta, Calgary, Alberta...


N56SF/"TF987", ex-Iraqi AF, seen at Waterloo, Ontario, in April 2001 when owned by Carey Moore, who was killed in this Fury on 8 July that year at Sarnia...


N232J/VR919/TG114 (composite airframe), ex-RCN (both IDs), seen June 1982 at Mt.Hope, Ontario when owned by Bill Sims...now N232MB "September Fury"


Two other Furies with RCN links survive, BTW: the Sanders family's "Argonaut" incorporates some other parts of TG114 which is one of the two IDs quoted for N232/N232J/N232MB; and WG567 became the racer N878M "Miss Merced". I've never seen "Argonaut", and have only seen N878M with an R3350 installed, so haven't posted either of those...nor Sandy Thomson's Wright-powered N1324/C-FGAT which was based for a time at CWH.

S.

[Dave Hadfield]

We sent our Pegasus from the Swordfish over to Deltair in England for overhaul, and it didn't come back for 4 1/2 years. 4 1/2 years! They got all tied up in paperwork concerning the exhaust valves. What should have been a simple little thing, by my personal judgement, got turned into a issue of glacier proportions, and got fixed about as fast.

Based on that, and 2 other experiences with other items, you can imagine how likely it is that we'll send more items over there for overhaul....

Dave

[me109g4]

Bureaucracy,, taking the fun out of life one stupid rule at a time,,,,

[Chappie]

Bureaucracy,, taking the fun out of life one stupid rule at a time,,,,

I love that one!!!


Chappie

[jschillereff]

The Sanders family "924" is slowly getting rebuilt and has the freshly overhauled Centaurus ready.
http://www.sandersaircraft.com/restorat ... ry-924.asp
Jason

Jason, is that the Buick behind 924??

Hey Lynn,
Sorry for the late reply, I believe those are early on shots of Furias during the rebuild.
Jason

[Dan K]

Two other Furies with RCN links survive, BTW: the Sanders family's "Argonaut" incorporates some other parts of TG114 which is one of the two IDs quoted for N232/N232J/N232MB; and WG567 became the racer N878M "Miss Merced". I've never seen "Argonaut", and have only seen N878M with an R3350 installed...

Interesting to note still another engine change for Argonaut and others--this time to R-2800.

http://www.sandersaircraft.com/restorat ... -r2800.asp

http://www.sandersaircraft.com/restorat ... roject.asp

http://www.sandersaircraft.com/restorat ... 7-1024.jpg

[Eric Rogers]

Oshkosh 2006 when it was owned by Chuck Greenhill

[Roger Cain]

Side tracking slightly from the Centaurus engine question, anyone know where the Sea Fury NX878M painted as Miss Merced several years ago is?

[steve dickey]

Still with Eric:
Not sure which airport its based at though.

http://www.warbirdregistry.org/furyregistry/fury-wg567.html


http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=878M

[mlenoch]

Miss Merced is at Kenosha.
VL

[Roger Cain]

thanks.

[WallyB]

BUMP:

NX1954H has departed CYYR for BGBW (Goose to Narsarsuaq)
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N1954H

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