Hawker Fury II, SR661, G-CBEL - Flown by Paul Bonhomme

[@timdrums1]

My late dad flew these and absolutely adored them. The stories he told me as a kid will stay with me for life.

[@robertcook2572]

Perhaps you could share some with us?

[@simonbird1973]

The pinnacle of piston powered fighter aircraft. What a beast!!

[@Tom-Lahaye]

The proper sounds, no P&W inside but the only engine that makes it a real Fury, a Centaurus, lots of mythology in this plane.

[@RWBHere]

The sound of that Centaurus is something rather special.

[@reggierico]

An amazing example of a Fury. Probably in better than new condition. Great engine, prop and paint! Well done.

[@bluarcher5941]

truly one of my favorite big radial aircraft. Nothing compares, except for the F-8. Great stuff.

[@jameslynch165]

Met Paul at the old buckenham air show last year, such a nice guy and a super talented pilot. Thanks for posting this video.

[@globalawakeningproject]

That Hurricane parked in the grass as the Fury taxied by was sweet....

[@backpackerthrulife8497]

What a wonderful sounding engine- like balm to my soul.

[@TyphoonLegacyCoLtd]

Wonderful sound! ~Ian

[@MrTallpoppy58]

War is a terrible evil but it does create some wonderful machines.

[@Firespectrum122]

Necessity is the mother of invention ;)

[@tomthx5804]

Aahhh...it aint that bad.

[@christopherpardell4418]

Phil Cadey well, still and all, a bicycle is a machine, too... but no one ever used one to kill 50 people at a concert. Some machines are built expressly to facilitate the killing of people. Others make you a cup of coffee.

[@normalizedinsanity4873]

War is totally unecessary, those who suggest otherwise are just brainwashed by a system born from geonocide and maintained by genoide run by a hanfdul of pyschopaths who benifit from our ignorance, and who make sure we remain ignorant.

[@johnhunter8192]

Ï o kMI 8th grade school

[@453421abcdefg12345]

A wonderful video, it is just so nice to see this aeroplane flying with a proper engine, so many take the easy way out and fit a pratt engine, which completely destroys the point. Many thanks for posting this!

[@HighFlight]

Many thanks and I'm glad that you enjoyed this. Hopefully I'll get some more film of this beauty as well as the Navy Wings Sea Fury during 2019?

[@billpayne6936]

What engine does it correctly use, please. Thanks again.

[@453421abcdefg12345]

@@billpayne6936 This Fury is fitted with it's correct Bristol Centaurus engine, but due to lack of spares, and to a certain lack of understanding in foreign countries, Pratt and Whitney engines are sometimes fitted, the aircraft does fly, but not as good performance as the original Centaurus engine gave it. Stay safe ! Chris B.

[@benters3509]

Been in love with the SF ever since the mid seventies, when I saw my first one in the RNAS museum at Yeovilton. It just sat there looking mean, but somehow beautiful. A year or so later I was at an airshow and heard an airplane start up with the sound of a Coffman starter (though I did not know what that was then). I walked over, and there was a SF running and getting ready to taxi out. I could hardly contain my excitement! I swear I was jumping up and down on the spot! I miss those days.

[@colinmartin2921]

My favourite aircraft, so sleek, and the sound from that Centaurus!

[@benters3509]

What a beautiful airplane the Fury/Sea Fury was. Still my favorite to this day.

[@peterlee4682]

Magnificent! This, the Bearcat and the TA 152 were the last great propeller aircraft developed for WWII...

[@davidjohnireland4]

You forgot the D H Hornet

[@billstewart4839]

I grew up near RNAS LOSSIEMOUTH and watched these beautiful aircraft for hours..

[@evannorth5397]

A few years ago I took a walk up glastonbury tor and suddenly there was a beautiful sound. It was a 2 seater sea fury (from the royal navy historic flight at nearby yeovilton) flying overhead. What a sound!

[@zabaleta66]

Didn't realize it was so big! Five blades, huge engine, beast!

[@RWBHere]

At least one was tested to over 3,000 bhp in a factory.

[@woooster17]

Such a big prop arc.. which I can attest to it creating quite the breeze. My wife and I were stood directly behind it a few weeks ago at the Duxford evening air show!💨😄

[@HighFlight]

The more blades and the bigger the props, the more powerful the engine. I bet she was a delight to see at the evening airshow, which sadly I did not go to!

[@woooster17]

@@HighFlight She really did enjoy it, but she did mention wearing a summery dress might have been a mistake…given the prop wash 😄

[@patgould2586]

The Bristol Centaurus......total eargasm!

[@MikeBrown-ex9nh]

Love the sound of round. Powerful growl.

something about 4 and 5 blade props.. I LOVE um.. Beautiful sound..

[@MisteriosGloriosos922]

*Nice!!. Thanks for informative vid !!!*

[@HighFlight]

Thanks. I'm glad that you liked it. 👍

[@okrajoe]

A beautiful plane!

[@scottgorman7166]

What a beauty........sweet

[@maksicar]

Watched these beautiful planes for many hours ,taking off and landing st RNAS Lossiemouth,when I was a young lad.

[@toddcanipe1190]

Beautiful Bird!!

[@joshstanton267]

gorgeous aircraft from any angle.. love the fury!

[@peterkirgan2921]

Great video! The RAN flew these in Korea from HMAS Sydney and a few of these downed enemy Mig 15s

[@gcm747]

Love to know how many aircraft Paul B is type rated in.

[@nigelterry9299]

Lovely sounds!

[@vecchiogufo4863]

The Powerful Beauty !

[@georgecharleston2597]

Now come on who can't just fall in love with these old war birds from a time long gone past

[@scottgorman7166]

Everyone can who loves aircraft.....wonderful time for aircraft design.......I think the best

[@gruntabro1]

Wonderful Bristol Centauras sleeve valve 18 cylinder Radial engine 2500hp

[@britsh_weather_has_bipolar8199]

These aircraft shot down Mig jets in Korea, incredible bit of kit!

[@kubanskiloewe]

pfff....yeah when the mig fly with parachute and flaps down ...LOL

[@vascoribeiro69]

@@kubanskiloewe head to head. 4x20mm cannon were enough!

[@kubanskiloewe]

@@vascoribeiro69 head to head ? a mig with over mach 1 and this with near 700km/h ?....you have only 1-2 sec or less for aim, trigger and pull away ! completely bullshit talk

[@vascoribeiro69]

@@kubanskiloewe even A-1 Skyriders shot down 2 Mig-17 in Vietnam!

[@kubanskiloewe]

@@vascoribeiro69 sure when they had to slow down while these slow noobs flow in circles ...lol

[@richardsilva-spokane3436]

...a majestic beast of a machine ♥️👍

[@thethirdman225]

Does anyone know if the Centaurus is a total loss lubrication system? I believe that is common in sleeve valve engines.

[@HighFlight]

Dry sump and pressure pumped system - see pages 59 and 60 of the following AAIB Accident Report describing the oil system on the Royal Navy Historic Flights Centaurus powered Sea Fury G-RNHF - assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/628cd96cd3bf7f1f47c65ebc/Hawker_Sea_Fury_T_Mk_20_G-RNHF_07-22.pdf

[@thethirdman225]

@@HighFlight Thanks. So consumption is between 12 and 20 pints per hour. Total loss system then, like the Sabre. Shame to hear about the loss of the T20. At least those on board got out, which, considering the rate of descent, is pretty remarkable.

[@stevedeep_creek_walla916]

As VH-SFW this Fury lived at my local airport in Moree Australia. It was owned, maintained, and flown by a local crop duster pilot. It flew almost weekly and often "beat up" the airfield in spectacular fashion, with low low high speed passes, and aerobatics. And that Bristol radial had a sound all it's own! I live next to the airport and only needed to walk to my side fence to see the fun. Our loss is the UK's gain....

[@lolzzz8304]

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[@CraigMarshall_HDvideo4K]

How come we lost it? The POMs pinch back all our good stuff like the world's first Garratt, the K1 from Tasmania. Are we Aussies too stupid to see what we have until it's too late?

[@anitadolan6417]

This may be the same Fury that was owned by an earth-moving contractor from Mackay for a short time, before being sold to the late Guido Zuccoli.

[@michaelodwyer4442]

I love aircraft, but I never heard of the Hawker, fury I before, but it looks great.

[@megatwingo]

An amazing aircaft well filmed. Thumbs up! :)

[@benters3509]

My favorite airplane of all time. I remember back in the seventies I saw a SF on static display in the Yeovilton museum and fell in love with the look of the thing. A few years later I was at an air display, heard a big "CHUFF" and a big engine running. I went over to look, and it was a Sea Fury actually running. I nearly pissed myself in sheer delight. The only thing that could ever surpass that would be to hear a Typhoon or Tempest with a Napier Saber running. There is a possibility, thanks to a group in the UK restoring a Typhoon, but at my age, I am running out of time.

[@HighFlight]

Let's hope that you do get to see and hear the Hawker Typhoon again. The plan is for it to be flying for the 80th anniversary of D-Day on 6/6/2024 and the Aircraft Restoration Company at Duxford have been engaged to help achieve that - if anybody can do it, then they can. The Napier Sabre they have is pristine with zero hours. hawkertyphoon.com

[@guaporeturns9472]

@@HighFlightHow’s that coming along?

[@HighFlight]

@@guaporeturns9472 I don’t know but here’s a link to their website hawkertyphoon.com/

[@bernardthefourth]

I love that this one still has the five blade prop.

[@lookinatu5096]

I was stationed on the Baltic in the late 1960's and one of the 5-bladed prop versions was used to pull a target sock for the ak-ak gunners to shoot at. One of the pilots was a hot shot and after dropping the target would dive and buzz our chow hall, just for fun. He would be so low on his pass that the windows and plates would rattle and the water in glasses would ripple from the engine roar and compressed air under his wings. This same pilot was one of a very few pilots to ever "cart-wheel" this plane - some trick. It has been a delight to once again hear the roar of the engine and scream of the prop of this beast.

[@gruntabro1]

5 blades to harness all that hp

[@pauldavidson6321]

That still has a Bristol Centaurus engine,a 4 blade usually means a big Pratt & Whitney R3350 has been fitted .

[@shaneallen4501]

Floats gracefully off the tarmac, nice!

[@mikelyon5595]

It's a beast; I love the fury!

[@danzervos7606]

A Sea Fury did take out a Mig 15 in the Korean war. A Vought Corsair also accomplished the feat flown by Jesse G. Folmar off the USS Bataan, a light aircraft carrier (a WWII ship decommissioned and eventually scrapped in 1961) . In Vietnam two Mig 17s were downed by prop driven Skyraiders and possibly a 3rd with another Mig suffering significant damage. The Skyraider was about 100 mph slower than the Sea Fury but had similar cannon armament. One of the Skyraiders was flying from Intrepid, a museum ship in NY Harbor and the other flying from the Midway a museum ship in San Diego harbor. I have had the opportunity to visit both museum ships which I recommend visiting.

[@rattywoof5259]

Lovely definition on the video - so many seem to have been filmed through the bottom of a beer bottle.

[@HighFlight]

Thanks. I never seem to be able to find any beer bottles handy when I'm filming! :)

[@michaelnaisbitt1590]

definition of STRESS to look in your mirror and see it full of sea fury coming at at full chat cannons blazing thats stress

[@TheOgle420]

I live somewhat close Reno Nv. the other day we saw two SF mock dog fighting above us "it was a lot of fun to watch".....................

[@HighFlight]

Now that is entertainment!

[@phillydelphia8760]

Man, I wish the "Baby gorilla" and her owner were still around and flying in Dorset.. Amazing soundtrack and performance.

[@EleanorPeterson]

Don't appreciate what a monster prop that is till you see a guy grab a blade and turn the engine over. Sheesh!

[@marksellers4875]

With the wing profile, the Fury/ Sea Fury looks like the love child of a P47 and an FW 190. Pretty pretty pretty. But I still think the FW 190 A is the prettiest thing to ever spin a prop.

[@fredtedstedman]

Now that's what I call a fighter plane . It's testosterone -with wings -on steroids ! It's a monster and it's voice is a snarl ! Wales UK.

[@josipvrandecic2472]

What a story !...from Iraqi via USA to UK....a solid warbird.

[@airailimages]

Nice sight and sound. Too bad about the people talking and laughing during part of it, but I understand how difficult it can be to get clean audio at an air show. Thumbs up for a decent job.

[@HighFlight]

Thankyou. The fact that I'm filming always seems to attract people making noise, even when it's not an airshow, as here, and I've tried to chose an apparently quiet spot!

[@tsu8003]

Wow, just wow! The Sea Fury is my all time favourite prop fighter but to see an actual Fury is just... wow! A great plane flown by a great pilot!

[@HighFlight]

Thanks, it certainly is. I have other films of this Fury and other Sea Furies on the channel if you are interested and some more coming soon. If you 'subscribe' (its free!) you should get an email when each new film appears.

[@tsu8003]

Already subscribed!

[@hudsonriverlee]

Loved the video, period. What a great sound. Like a sharp chisel on a piece of oak.

[@HighFlight]

Thanks and very nice of you to say.

[@mickkennedy1344]

Centaurus majesty

[@andyroper1613]

Built to a Specification issued after detailed analysis of captured FW 190A's during the war. What a wonderful aeroplane.. ♥️

[@christopherbeckford3102]

Sir glad that you say that, a lot of forget that kinda base of the fw-190 a3

[@iamgod6464]

It was infact the other way round. The FW190 was based on the the Tempest M2 from plans taken by Nazi Spies.

[@MegaBoilermaker]

The Centaurus was the peak of Sleeve Valve design by an amazing company that were eventually given as a gift to Rolls-Royce.

[@SvenTviking]

Lord, but the country was run by some idiots in the 50’s!

[@vmutuma]

Imagine building an RC plane like this of the same size.That would be awesome.

[@tucowept]

Wow, what a beauty.

[@joeriley3721]

Nice!!

[@theralphster8492]

Thanks from me also, fabulous...so jealous of Mr Bonhomme...Dave.

[@tsu8003]

Not jealous of Paul, just proud as hell of our world beating pilot!

[@Yosemite-George-61]

nice clean start...good camera work with high quality sound, I really "hear" the diference with the Pratts, I really like the deep rumble at idle and the absence of walve train noise from the front. is like a "snoring giant"...

[@HighFlight]

Thank you. A 'snoring giant' it is indeed and the Centaurus engine brings music to the ears!

[@claretollerton9715]

The sea fury was it a modified hurricane or the spitfire I would lean to it being a spitfire than the hurricane because of the slender fuselage and engine?

[@HighFlight]

The Hawker Hurricane was made by the same company as the later Sea Fury. About 10 years separates each design. It was initially called the Fury II and was to have been for the Royal Air Force, who didn't want or need it as a result of jet aircraft such as the Gloster Meteor, replacing piston engined propellor driven aircraft. It was renamed the Sea Fury and 'navalised' for use by the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm by adding folding wings, a tail hook, strengthened undercarriage and other equipment so that it could be operated from aircraft carriers. It was a design development of the earlier Hawker Typhoon and Tempest. The Spitfire was also a much earlier design built by Supermarine. Both the Spitfire and Hurricane were powered by inline engines, principally the Rolls Royce Merlin or the Rolls Royce Griffon. The Sea Fury has a sleeve valved radial engine - the Bristol Centaurus - which gives it a larger and wider front end profile compared to the Hurricane or Spitfire.

[@claretollerton9715]

@@HighFlight yeah I did know they were made by hawker Sidley but I haven't seen any world war 2 navel aircraft to date more the American navel war planes and mostly raf roles in the war . I think we also imported alot of American carrier planes early on before America got involved corsair and wildcats and p51 mustang it wasn't much long after they came over when Hitler made threats to them and claimed America has an enemy and target after pearl harbour revenge attacks. Growing up the f4 phantom was impressive one of my faves at airshows as I kid the smoky vortex trail from the after burners most of these engineering figures and science terms are abit baffling but that's because of being dyslexic with maths unfortunately .

[@anthonywinkler6666]

No words needed! Carry on!

[@stephengardiner9867]

To be precise (and pedantic...yadda, yadda...) that is a "Sea Fury". There were a couple of "Furies" produced by Hawker over the years. One was a biplane predecessor to the Hurricane while a later Fury (and this aircraft's immediate ancestor) was basically a centaurus radial-engined Tempest with some aerodynamic refinements. It wasn't to go into production and service with the RAF but the Fleet Air Arm adopted a further refinement and adaptation of that design for carrier use. A beautiful aircraft.

[@HighFlight]

Following which Hawkers received a large order from the Iraqi Air Force for 'Sea Furies' without any naval components, including folding wings. Some of these aircraft were converted Sea Fury FB.11s, but most were newly built from scratch and were officially designated by Hawkers 'Fury ISS' the ISS standing for 'Iraqi Single Seat'. Coloquially they were known as 'Baghdad Furies'. This was one of those new build airframes. In addition its current colour scheme is that of one of the 2 original Hawker Sea Fury prototypes, SR661, that were themselves produced from the original Hawker Fury II design for the RAF before becoming 'Sea Fury' prototypes. The real prototype SR661 also lacked folding wings and some of the other naval requirements.

[@paulshirley6383]

Hawker Fury II, SR661, G-CBEL - Flown by Paul Bonhomme High Flight love louis louis shirley

[@marcdemmon208]

There is one in a Canada navy museum in Calgary Alberta

[@roopher2]

Saw her fly at the Warbirds airshow, Duxford in July., what an awesome machine!

[@colinmiles1052]

Nice!

[@jamesbottger5894]

The Centaurus engine has slide valves, as opposed to the more traditional poppet valves found on most ICE engines. It's a very interesting technology. An entire video could be done just on the differences between these two types of engines...

[@boboala1]

Nice! Damn, she sounds solid!

[@lorrainebracewell9830]

The ultimate prop driven warplane in my view and the best.

[@Glen.Danielsen]

All that power and only four gun ports? Beautiful beast though. 💛🙏🏼

[@HighFlight]

But at least it would have had 4 x 20mm Cannons rather than lower calibre machine guns, plus could carry 16 x 3 inch rockets and 2000lbs of bombs externally.

[@Glen.Danielsen]

@@HighFlight Ah, that’s true, High. Four 20 mm canons would be huge punch. And that’s a lot of rockets!

[@MrDaiseymay]

MONSTER ! TAKE OFF STARTS AT 5.05

[@marcdemmon208]

What was the purpose of 5 blade propler

[@HighFlight]

The prop is 5 bladed because of the amount of power produced by the engine. It needs 5 blades to pull the aircraft through the air at the greater speed that the engine power permits. That's why you get different propellor blade configurations - the greater the power produced by the engine the more blades that are needed to take full advantage. e.g. Spitfire's have 3, 4 or 5 propellors, the engine with a 4 bladed prop produces more power than the one with a 3 bladed prop and the 5 bladed prop more power than the others.

[@steve5825]

Flown...eventually! Would be better described as taking off. Damn we built some great planes back then.

[@barrierodliffe4155]

@Jim Barrows Not as good or translated to English much better than anything from USA.

[@MC-nb6jx]

Jim Barrows .... Oh dear... Typical American arrogance.. “We’re better than you”🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ Steve 58 didn’t say the Americans didn’t build great things, just “we built” some great planes back then.. This was just one of them.. You probably won’t admit some of the things built by other countries were/are better than what the US build.. That’s not saying the US haven’t built some fantastic machines, but they’ve never built the best of everything (& they’ve built some real lemons) no matter how patriotic you want to be🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️ Why did you have to make such a stupid comment?? You just make yourself look like an arse😉😉

[@lufwaffeaircraft]

Thats a damn Super Prop right there boys.

[@adrianlarkins7259]

Magnificent. She just throbs with elegant power. I wonder if her nickname isn't Gesebell. ie. G CBEL.!!

[@adrianlarkins7259]

Thanks for the highlight

[@u.s.patriot3415]

Cool!

[@mikenottis6252]

Did that propeller turn the wrong way?

[@HighFlight]

That all depends on what you're used too? The main thing is that it turned!🙃

[@donaldparlettjr3295]

I'm amazed that from the rear it looks like an overgrown Fw190

[@dalegirard8453]

Very good airplane

[@jeanbiel301]

Супер! Даже.шасси складывается !

[@joshjack6127]

Forgive my ignorance, is this not a Sea Fury? I didn't think any straight Fury's were ever produced?

[@HighFlight]

Josh, It's official type title is Hawker Fury ISS - The ISS stands for 'Iraqi Single Seat' and these were also known as 'Baghdad Furys'. They were part of an export order produced by Hawker for Iraq. Some were converted/adapted ex Royal Navy Sea Fury FB.11 airframes, but the majority were new build aircraft. They were built without folding wings and tail hooks or any other requirements for carrier operations, as Iraq only needed them for land based operations. Fighter Aviation Engineering, who now own the aircraft, instead of keeping the original Iraqi paint scheme, restored it as one of the Sea Fury prototypes - SR661 - which itself was created from the early prototype production batch of the Fury II which would have been destined for the RAF had they not been more interested in the new jet powered fighter aircraft. The Fury II was cancelled and became the Sea Fury for the Royal Navy. The original Sea Fury prototype SR661, didn't have folding wings etc either, so this aircrafts depiction of it is rather appropriate.

[@joshjack6127]

@@HighFlight Fantastic, thanks very much for the info, much appreciated 👍 Every day's a schoolday as they say!

[@HighFlight]

@@joshjack6127 👍😊

[@1063ghost]

Wahnsinns Maschine ! :-)

[@nicholasforman1195]

There is a very slight resemblence to the Fock Wulf...What a girl! I bet she could have given Tiger tanks' arses a splitting headache.

[@user-141s]

Танк "Тигр" сделан на заклепках, и 100% это дерьмо перед сверхтехнологическим ИС-2.

[@mrrolandlawrence]

Wow the origional fury II not the Sea Fury and with the original engine! What a treat :)

[@HighFlight]

Yes, it's pretty special! Thanks for enjoying.

[@LCMNUNES1962]

VERY GOOD SOUND RADIALs, FRON BRASIL.

[@britsh_weather_has_bipolar8199]

A Bristol Centaurus sleeve valved 18 cylinder double row radial, hugely powerful.

[@paulfharris175]

@@britsh_weather_has_bipolar8199 I think that this engine is much better than the Napier Saber engine

[@eddieg4320]

Is this plane A hawker tempest évolution,with radial engine 🤔

[@HighFlight]

Yes, it was initially developed as the 'Tempest light fighter (Centaurus)' designed to be much lighter than the Typhoon and Tempest with the Bristol Centaurus engine that also powered the Tempest F II and FB II. It started life as an RAF requirement but this was cancelled and development and production continued for the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm.

[@bryanhawk6052]

Let's get ready to rumbleeeee

[@msmeyersmd8]

I love the Bristol sleeve valve engineering. And the sound. However, on KZbin, in the last week I watched video of 2 crashes in the past resulting from engine failure and hydraulic failure destroying 2 beautiful Sea Fury’s. It could have happened with a P&W engine just as easily. The Bristol sleeve valve is a fairly complex engine that had its problems. Kind of like the Wright 3350. One American and one British. I second the comment about the Merlin powered P-51 as being the best Anglo-American aviation collaboration achievement ever.

[@leneanderthalien]

reliability from the Bristol engines was better as the US radials: whe known good this sleeve valve engines in France because the Bristol Hercules (14cyl) was built under licence in France by SNECMA up to 1964 to fit the Nord 2501 Noratlas.This engines are less complicated as you think with less parts in movement as a conventional engine...and the fuel econopmy is much better because able to run lean (blue flames at exhauts), this is not possible with the R3350's because overheats and detonation (always orange flames= rich)

[@PorscheGTRSWeissach]

I saw this clip too with the crashed 2 silver Sea Furies! I also saw the start procedure is a bit different. Engine starts sounded like done with air pressure or a shell! Anyway, sounded different to this Fury here! ;-)

[@msmeyersmd8]

leneanderthalien Thanks for that information. I had no idea these engines were manufactured that far after the War. As an engineer, I always thought the sleeve valve was a much more elegant solution. I like the sound of both but the Bristol sleeve valve is much smoother sounding. I hadn’t really noticed the blue “lean” flames before you mentioned it. That’s better from every engineering standpoint. Joke: Do you mean to say that the big P&W/Wright radials spewing fuel and flames on startup and take off isn’t as good? Obviously it less efficient. I grew up around them so I do love their sound. I flew in Twin Beeches with R-985s and loved them. Watching an R-4360, let alone 4 of them come to life while standing under the plane by the nose gear on a Guppy was a once in a lifetime experience for me. My Dad flew a few thousand hours in the B-36 so he gave me a lot of information on how the R-4360 functioned in practice. Most B-36s carried a pod that fit in the bomb bay that carried a brand new stored and pickled R-4360 so that an engine swap could occur almost anywhere with minimal down time in case of a problem. Just a quick engine swap. Back to the sleeve valve Bristol’s. Do you think the 14 cylinder Hercules engine was much more durable than the Centaurus and that, like the big American radials, the peak power output and development had been reached or exceeded, leaving the somewhat smaller engines to live longer lives in commercial and private use? I’ve not read a lot about the details of Bristol sleeve valve engine performance or longevity. I do remember reading that they had very high oil consumption. However, the American W-1320 and 3350 and the P&W-1340, 2800 and 4360s didn’t exactly sip oil. The tanks were gigantic. I always thought we would have moved beyond poppet valve technology in modern internal combustion engines by now. But they just won’t seem to die. Atkinson cycle, direct gasoline injection, variable compression, variable valve timing and other “gimmicks” seem to keep them alive. The rotary engine was a great idea but it was an oil burner and couldn’t pass emissions testing. Not that these are bad, but I had hoped automotive technology would have had a breakthrough improvement. We’re still using poppet valves. Wow. I love what they’re doing in Formula One but it seems like very complicated and expensive “gimmicks” that aren’t going to last 150,000+ miles on a daily driver. What do you think?

[@msmeyersmd8]

Irgendjemand Irgendwo I believe those were shell starts.i think I’ve seen a couple of those myself. The only pneumatic start radials I’m aware of are Russian/Soviet. Pneumatic works great in low temps in Russia vs electrical/batteries which can degrade a lot or freeze at super low temps. I think a lot of Russian planes used pneumatic brakes and flaps for the same reason. But I could certainly be incorrect. So don’t quote me. LOL.

[@fredtedstedman]

It's got a real GROWL to it compared to P & W > Love this plane Wales UK

[@MrSkyskooter]

Sydney Camm learnt well from Kurt Tank’s Fw 190.

[@leemerison5575]

Yes please!!!!!🛩🚀

[@dalegirard8453]

I'm always amazed they take time warm engine in war time you didn't have time do that

[@meatheadjose2856]

Now that's a hell airplane

[@gone547]

One lucky pilot.

[@kkiwi54]

Would love to see/hear a Napier Sabre one fly.

[@HighFlight]

Unfortunately that will never happen. I think that there were only 2 prototypes that were fitted with the Napier Sabre VII. Hopefully though there will be a Napier Sabre back in the air once the restoration of Hawker Typhoon RB396 is completed - hawkertyphoon.com/project

[@tomkrayg8102]

What a beautiful beast. How would these have stacked up against a later FW-190? I don't believe they fought each other. Anyone know?

[@dambuster6387]

I think the tempest from what I heard on KZbin from ex tempest pilots have said if the FW 190 went in to a dive that was a bad move because the tempest could out dive it. don,t know about the fury.but the fury was later production.