The planes with the 5 blade left turning props were original Centaurus, the 4 blade right turning were American right turning Pw R28800 or Wright R3350...
Not the last propeller driven aircraft operated by the Royal Navy. The Westland Wyvern and the Fairey Gannet followed the Fury. However, it may have been the last piston engine powered aircraft operated by the Royal Navy.
The Centaurus engine is an absolute beast of an engine, it also no matter how much care and money you pour into it has a habit of destroying itself mid-flight, the handling characteristics of a fury with a massive lump of dead engine on the front are far from good
Sadly, these aircraft had a bad rep as pilot killers, as the engined would seize up mid flight. The Royal Australian Navy lost more than a few of these, and several on the British civil register have been wrecked due to this.
@@foxstrangler the Royal Navy historic flight gave up with them, although one was lost due to undercarriage failure and the pilot bailed out which is the proper procedure, wheels up landing is not advised due to the big heavy lump at the front, one did survive an undercarriage collapse and was repaired, I have the dented spinner cone from it, it then was repaired, then utterly destroyed after the engine got fed up of life.
Hans Werner Lerche was a German testpilot in WW2 and he tested several allied aircraft, if they were still good enough to fly. A near death experience was a seized engine in a Hawker Tempest. The 4 large propeller blades were stuck in fine pitch, hence were the airbrakes. He dive angle to keep speed was close to 45 degrees, he stated. One pull on the stick and luck was with him, he stood.
I'm always hearing this but the data doesn't support it. I have a record of 25 incidents or accidents involving Furies or Sea Furies dating back to 1971. Of these, 11 were caused by engine failure, the rest just being other issues e.g. ground looping, runway excursion and nose-over, stall/loss of control or in the case of TF956 hydraulic failure and bail-out. Of the 11 incidents caused by engine failure, 5 were a Bristol Centaurus. 2 of them were the same aircraft twice (VX281/G-RNHF of the RNHF). The other 6 were American radials; N51SF in 2008, N13HP in 2014, F-AZXN in 2015 (failed on the ground, no damage to rest of aircraft), and N254SF in 2017 were caused by Wright R-3350 failures. WG655/G-INVN was re-engined from Centaurus to Pratt & Whitney R-2800 to improve reliability and was destroyed in 2020 when the R-2800 grenaded itself shortly after takeoff from Duxford, and N20SF "Dreadnought" suffered an inflight failure of its P&W R-4360 during a race at Reno, although I think we should cut racing engines some slack.
Besides the Wright 3350 conversions, some are flying with a P&W R-2800 conversion. Sanders Aeronautics in California has a "kit". Sanders also built the P&W R-4360 powered Sea Fury "Dreadnought".
Propeller rotation is always viewed from the cockpit, the Bristol engines were all 'left arc' as was the RR Griffon as the Poms were standardising on this when jets came along and made them obsolete. USA engines were all 'right arc' as was the RR Merlin, the Germans were 'right arc' as well and the Russian did both, the Klimov V12 was 'left arc'.
The planes with the 5 blade left turning props were original Centaurus, the 4 blade right turning were American right turning Pw R28800 or Wright R3350...
it's a beast of a plane , I love it ! thanks for sharing , my dad was ex FAA .
They stink insane!
Centaurus sounds a lot crisper than the P&W"s.
Not the last propeller driven aircraft operated by the Royal Navy. The Westland Wyvern and the Fairey Gannet followed the Fury. However, it may have been the last piston engine powered aircraft operated by the Royal Navy.
Excellent pedantry. However I think the last piston-engined aircraft operated by the RN would be the Chipmunk.
Great video!!!
Notice the variations in propellier blades.
Some have an original Bristol Centaurus engine (5 blade) and some are fitted with the Pratt and Whitney Double Wasp engine (4 blade).
Love the sound of those engines! How about doing a video with takeoffs!
Wirrrrr...bang...clatter....knock knock...buzz...bang..brmmmmmmmm
I don’t know, anything that is that hard to start concerns me. I wouldn’t want to back to far off the throttle after take off!
The Centaurus engine is an absolute beast of an engine, it also no matter how much care and money you pour into it has a habit of destroying itself mid-flight, the handling characteristics of a fury with a massive lump of dead engine on the front are far from good
Sadly, these aircraft had a bad rep as pilot killers, as the engined would seize up mid flight. The Royal Australian Navy lost more than a few of these, and several on the British civil register have been wrecked due to this.
@@foxstrangler the Royal Navy historic flight gave up with them, although one was lost due to undercarriage failure and the pilot bailed out which is the proper procedure, wheels up landing is not advised due to the big heavy lump at the front, one did survive an undercarriage collapse and was repaired, I have the dented spinner cone from it, it then was repaired, then utterly destroyed after the engine got fed up of life.
Hans Werner Lerche was a German testpilot in WW2 and he tested several allied aircraft, if they were still good enough to fly. A near death experience was a seized engine in a Hawker Tempest. The 4 large propeller blades were stuck in fine pitch, hence were the airbrakes. He dive angle to keep speed was close to 45 degrees, he stated. One pull on the stick and luck was with him, he stood.
I'm always hearing this but the data doesn't support it. I have a record of 25 incidents or accidents involving Furies or Sea Furies dating back to 1971. Of these, 11 were caused by engine failure, the rest just being other issues e.g. ground looping, runway excursion and nose-over, stall/loss of control or in the case of TF956 hydraulic failure and bail-out. Of the 11 incidents caused by engine failure, 5 were a Bristol Centaurus. 2 of them were the same aircraft twice (VX281/G-RNHF of the RNHF). The other 6 were American radials; N51SF in 2008, N13HP in 2014, F-AZXN in 2015 (failed on the ground, no damage to rest of aircraft), and N254SF in 2017 were caused by Wright R-3350 failures. WG655/G-INVN was re-engined from Centaurus to Pratt & Whitney R-2800 to improve reliability and was destroyed in 2020 when the R-2800 grenaded itself shortly after takeoff from Duxford, and N20SF "Dreadnought" suffered an inflight failure of its P&W R-4360 during a race at Reno, although I think we should cut racing engines some slack.
Why do the planes with 4 bladed props rotate counter clockwise and the 5 bladed ones rotate clockwise?
The 4-bladed prop versions have a Wright 3350 (US engine)... the five-bladed are Bristol sleeve-valve radials (British engine)
Besides the Wright 3350 conversions, some are flying with a P&W R-2800 conversion. Sanders Aeronautics in California has a "kit". Sanders also built the P&W R-4360 powered Sea Fury "Dreadnought".
The Bristol engines are pretty much gone and unobtainable now.
Propeller rotation is always viewed from the cockpit, the Bristol engines were all 'left arc' as was the RR Griffon as the Poms were standardising on this when jets came along and made them obsolete. USA engines were all 'right arc' as was the RR Merlin, the Germans were 'right arc' as well and the Russian did both, the Klimov V12 was 'left arc'.
Former radial engine operator..Is nice to catch the start and mixture perfectly..rather than three or four "tries"..run into a stable warm up, asap..
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Sleave valve engines are problematic . Not worth the effort and not as reliable as regular radials.