Picture of the day

[Dark Alley Dan]

Speaking of experimental types, what's wrong with this Hawker Fury?

 

[Sharps '63]

Not a damn thing! Beautiful aircraft! Engine refit?

 

[shredder]

Speaking of experimental types, what's wrong with this Hawker Fury?

That airplane looks like a P-51D and a Spitfire had a child!!!! Great looking machine!!!!

 

[Ganderite]

Speaking of experimental types, what's wrong with this Hawker Fury?

What a beauty!

 

[Ganderite]

200+ pictures found. Taken by a WW1 soldier in the trenches.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-chiefs-secret-photographs-life-trenches.html

 

[gaff]

Speaking of experimental types, what's wrong with this Hawker Fury?

wrong engine for a sea fury.

 

[gareez]

Speaking of experimental types, what's wrong with this Hawker Fury?

LA610 was an experimental, originally ordered as a Tempest MKIII but finished as a Fury.
One of three using a Merlin engine instead of a Radial

It is prettier than either a Tempest, Typhoon or Sea Fury
I love the retractable tail wheel, It really cleans up the airframe.

 

[diopter]

Wasn't jet powered, so at a disadvantage for use by RAF in the postwar.
Piston engines at that time did not suffer as did the period jet engines from rpm lag,
so piston engines were preferred for carrier duty until the jet engine technology improved.

 

[grelmar]

If these soldiers knew then, what we know now:

 

[MarkCNP]

200+ pictures found. Taken by a WW1 soldier in the trenches.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-chiefs-secret-photographs-life-trenches.html

Great pictures . . . nice rifle cozy

 

[MarkCNP]

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Great for plinking.

 

[kjohn]

^^ This is a real large ring Mauser....

 

[mr.e moose]

That's not a gun, this is a gun. Possibly quoted by Archibald Dundee South Australian Light Horse, grandfather to Mick Dundee. All kidding aside, You sure wouldn't want to dig your toes in if you fired that bad boy!

 

[purple]

My father used to talk about firing the Boyes .55 cal anti-tank rifle which featured an integral muzzle brake, recoil pad and bipod. In spite of all that you still got one helluva shove.

 

[collector67]

I've heard that operating the 1918 Mauser T Gewher could result in a broken collarbone. No recoil pad on that baby!

 

[Donny Fenn1]

Speaking of experimental types, what's wrong with this Hawker Fury?

Power by a Napier Sabre engine in this pic, it also had a RR Griffon with contra-rotating props at one point.
With the Napier this particular aircraft may have been the fastest piston plane that Hawker ever made.
When the decision was made to use the sleeve valve radial Bristol Centaurus in the Fury/Sea Fury development of this model ended. Too bad really but as mentioned the Jets were on the way.

 

[Santoneski]

"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

If these soldiers knew then, what we know now:

 

[fraserdw]

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Great for plinking.

There is one of these in the Barrack Green Officers Mess in SJ, NB. Another in the Saint John Mens Club, Byng Boys Room. Neither has the pistol grip though. Those are some old looking Lts!

 

[Donny Fenn1]

Speaking of experimental types, what's wrong with this Hawker Fury?

Power by a Napier Sabre engine in this pic, it also had a RR Griffon with contra-rotating props at one point.
With the Napier this particular aircraft may have been the fastest piston plane that Hawker ever made.
When the decision was made to use the sleeve valve radial Bristol Centaurus in the Fury/Sea Fury development of this model ended. Too bad really but as mentioned the Jets were on the way.

 

[Sharps '63]

"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

I wonder how many suffered the effects of gama radiation?