The Duxford Year 2024 - Airshow Season Recap

[@planestv]

The full two hour version of this programme is available here: watch.planestv.com/programs/the-duxford-year-2024

[@johnseymour5399]

Brilliant to look back at a great season at Duxford, I really enjoyed the season finale 👍😀Thank you PlanesTV, great commentary Adam 👍

[@andrewwaller5913]

An excellent varied season at Duxford in 2024

[@Bradleygdyjh02]

I loved this year so much! the dc-6 & the rafale! oh i loved it so fuggin much oh & don't forget moggy! sadly i forgot to add Duxford to my reaction video but it was still a great year!

[@swg6664]

Love the formation ❤

[@paulshirley6383]

The Duxford Year 2024 - Airshow Season Recap A short film looking back at the highlights of IWM Duxford's 2024 airshow season, with highlights from thei Planes love louis shirley

[@joanne-hollydevrew3823]

When will we see the Tempest II doing a display?

[@harryspeakup8452]

when they rediscover the lost art of making a large sleeve-valve engine run reliably. Ever since the Centaurus left military and airline service it has had a terrible reliability record, and there are just not enough examples in use to provide the economic critical mass needed for a viable support industry. If you want to run a big radial in the modern world then it's a world of pain outside the P&W world and the smaller Wright engines, simply because those are where the parts supply and engineering know-how are concentrated. For the big liquid-cooled aero engines then Allisons, Merlins and Griffons are still practicable propositions, but not much else

[@andrewwaller5913]

​@harryspeakup8452Not completely correct. There are several Furies flying with Centaurus engines worldwide. The one at Duxford in the video for example hasn't had any major issues. The Tempest will fly when it's ready and safe, and not before.

[@harryspeakup8452]

@@andrewwaller5913 As far as I can count them, the total world population of currently or recently & prospectively Centaurus-powered aircraft is just four. Tempest II G-TEMT, originally MW763; G-CBEL, originally Iraqi AF 315; T.20 N924G, originally VX300, with Dennis Sanders in California; and FB.11 F-AYSF, originally WJ298, Italian-owned and French-registered. That is not a sufficient worldwide population to maintain the technical support required for an engine which was only ever made it small numbers and even during its military heyday somewhat problematic - bear in mind that the Royal Australian Navy lost more Sea Furies to engine failure than any other cause, including carrier ops. In-service Centaurus engine failures in recent years have included: G-INVN / WG665 in 1990 (airframe severely damaged); G-RNHF in 2015 (airframe severely damaged) ; G-RHNF again in 2021 (airframe effectively destroyed). In proportion to the very limited hours flown on the display circuit you surely can't claim this as anything approaching an acceptable record. All the other remaining airworthy Iraqi Furies and Sea Furies are running the R-3350 or R-2800, which themselves are not perfect, as we saw in 2020, with the restored G-INVN crashing again following the failure of its R-2800 transplant. But at least the R-2800, as the most-produced aircraft piston engine in history, with 50 manufactured for every Centaurus made, remains in service in reasonable numbers worldwide and therefore is still able to sustain the reasonable level of parts supply, engineering experience and technical support that are available for it

[@TornadoLuigi]

​@@andrewwaller5913 Thanks. I wanted to say the same thing but you have worded it better than I would have.