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4 Sea Fury's in the air....lovely!

Sun Nov 05, 2023 8:51 am

Shameless repost from Vintage Aviation News!

https://warbirdsnews.com/warbird-articles/a-good-day-the-sea-fury-four-ship-air-to-air-video.html?fbclid=IwAR2vC5wbHErwDU_CduSGeMAyOwnjag6e8vGS4ipI5E1325a0Q1J7E2GhZM0
https://youtu.be/b1lRGCUHMAo

Re: 4 Sea Fury's in the air....lovely!

Sun Nov 05, 2023 8:59 am

No shame in reposting that michel. :D
Four Furies with three different powerplants!

Andy

Re: 4 Sea Fury's in the air....lovely!

Sun Nov 05, 2023 10:16 am

There's only one powerplant for the Sea Fury. Apologies to Mr Pratt and Mr Whitney but if it doesn't have sleeve valves it's not the real deal.

Re: 4 Sea Fury's in the air....lovely!

Sun Nov 05, 2023 2:10 pm

DH82EH wrote:No shame in reposting that michel. :D
Four Furies with three different powerplants!

Andy


Andy it's actually 4 different engines...
Silver Sea Fury = R3350
"924" = Centarus
Argonaught = R2800
Dreadnought = R4360

Re: 4 Sea Fury's in the air....lovely!

Sun Nov 05, 2023 2:50 pm

Many years ago, I met Frank Sanders in Boise.
He pulled up in a Sea Fury so it wasn't difficult to figure out who he was!
Seemed a nice guy and was surprised I knew of him.

I can't imagine a 4360 in a fighter...
Too bad they never built the F8B in quantity.. A few of them mixed in with Sea Furys at Reno would have been fun to see.

Re: 4 Sea Fury's in the air....lovely!

Sun Nov 05, 2023 3:12 pm

Was watching the film and couldn't figure out what type of the aircraft was used for the photo ship. It looked tight inside and the door and window placements reminded me of the Dick Foote FM-2 Wildcat that had three seats in the interior with the door in the same location.

Re: 4 Sea Fury's in the air....lovely!

Sun Nov 05, 2023 5:20 pm

marine air wrote:Was watching the film and couldn't figure out what type of the aircraft was used for the photo ship.


It's the Sanders' TBM Avenger (N73642).

Re: 4 Sea Fury's in the air....lovely!

Sun Nov 05, 2023 6:12 pm

MKD1966 wrote:
DH82EH wrote:No shame in reposting that michel. :D
Four Furies with three different powerplants!

Andy


Andy it's actually 4 different engines...
Silver Sea Fury = R3350
"924" = Centarus
Argonaught = R2800
Dreadnought = R4360

Thanks for the correction :drink3:
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