The Hawker Sea Fury is a British
fighter aircraft designed and manufactured by Hawker Aircraft.
It was the last propeller-driven fighter to serve with the
Royal Navy, and one of the fastest production single
reciprocating engine aircraft ever built. Developed during
the Second World War, the Sea Fury entered service two years
after the war ended.
The Hawker
Fury was an evolutionary successor to the successful Hawker
Typhoon and Tempest fighters and fighter-bombers of the Second
World War. With the end of the War in Europe in sight, the RAF
began cancelling many aircraft orders. Thus, the RAF's order
for the Fury was cancelled before any production examples were
built because the RAF already had excessive numbers of late
mark Spitfires and Tempests and viewed the Fury as an
additional overlap with these aircraft.
By March
1947, production Sea Furies were already being produced for
the Fleet Air Arm. The fourth and sixth production aircraft
were used in further trials with Illustrious, and the main
change from the earlier aircraft was the adoption of a longer,
stiffer arrestor hook.
The Sea
Fury pictured here at Dunsfold Airshow 2018 is part of The
Fighter Collection based at Duxford, and was photographed
using a Canon 7dmkii and a Sigma 150-600c lens at an aperture
of F9 and a shutter speed of 1/320. |
