Inside the Hawker Sea Fury with Paul Bennet

Watch on as Paul Bennet gives you an in-depth look at the latest addition to the Paul Bennet Airshows fleet - the 3050hp, 18cyl radial-powered Hawker Sea Fury.
The Sea Fury is the fastest and most powerful single-engined piston-powered fighter ever built, you can see the Sea Fury in action at the 2024 @centralcoastairshow - May 25 and 26!
Paul Bennet Airshows prudly uses and is endorsed by Icom Australia, Aero Refuellers, Tempest, Bose Aviation, Trojan Freight, AVPlan, Aerohunter Adventure Flights, Ly-Con Aircraft Engines, Luskintyre Aircraft Restoration, Whelen Aerospace Technologies, Concorde Battery Corporation, Dynon Avionics
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[@brushitoff503]

Fricken Awesome, cheers.

[@cs512tr]

beautiful my fav piston warbird , love to be up in such a beast!

[@tonywolters1269]

Paul I love the giant Sawbones decal on the garbage can in the background!! @3:20

[@Kneedragon1962]

Awesome. Thanks mate. I figured it had the P&W R2800 conversion because of the 4 blade prop. I understand almost all of them have had this conversion. Parts for a Bristol Centaurus are getting a bit like unicorn droppings, and people who know and are familiar with and have experience working on radial engines with sleeve valves ~ In the war and for 10 ~ 20 years after, there were quite a few of them. Beaufighters and Blenheims both flew with radial engines and sleeve valves. Nowhere near as powerful as a Centaurus, but the same basic arrangement. But you won't find many people today who've even seen a sleeve valve engine, let alone know how to work on one. I've seen them in books and on youtube, but never seen one in real life, let alone touched one. I'm told the hydraulics on the original Sea Fury were a little bit odd, but when you do the Pratt & Whitney conversion they get possessed by the spirit of Satan and you need to sacrifice a whole goat before each flight so the wheels will retract. They weren't great in the original, but with the conversion, they're a nightmare. Having worked a little bit on 1960s British cars (and errors like the Morris Minor) I have roughly the same opinion of British hydraulics as I do of British Electrics, by Lucas ~ Prince of Darkness. They're a crime against humanity.

[@hughfraser1547]

Such a rare beauty, shame about the music on the engine run sequence the exhaust note is the only sound needed

[@paulkrapp]

F-104 Starfighter, the F-102 was the Delta Dagger.