A Hawker Sea Fury FB.11 fighter (s/n VR943) of No. 804 Squadron, Fleet Air Arm, is catapulted from the British light fleet aircraft carrier HMS Glory (R62) circa June 1951.
The Hawker Sea Fury was a British fighter aircraft designed and manufactured by Hawker. It was the last propeller-driven fighter to serve with the Royal Navy, and also one of the fastest production single piston-engined aircraft ever built. The Sea Fury served in the latter part of World War 2, most notably in the Battle of the South China Sea.
The Sea Fury has many design similarities to Hawker's preceding Tempest fighter, but the Sea Fury was a considerably lighter aircraft; both the Sea Fury's wings and fuselage originate from the Tempest but were significantly modified and redesigned. Production Sea Furies were fitted with the powerful Bristol Centaurus engine, and armed with four wing-mounted Hispano V cannons. While originally developed as a pure aerial fighter aircraft, the definitive Sea Fury FB11 was a fighter-bomber, the design having been found suitable for this mission as well.
Users[]
Australia
Brazil
British Empire
- Canada
- Cuba
- Egypt
- France
- Germany
- India
- Iraq
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Republic of China
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Comparable Aircraft[]
- Bethpage AF F-8/45
- CAC CA-15 Kangaroo
- Farmingdale AF F-47/42
- Focke-Wulf Fw190A-9
- Hartford AF F-5/41
- Kawanishi N1K2-J Kyofu
- Kawasaki Ki-100
- Lavochkin La-9
- Martin-Baker MB5
- Mitsubishi A7M
- Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate
- Supermarine Seafang
