Product Details

• Paperback: 104 pages
• Publisher: Specialty Press (December 19, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580070639
• ISBN-13: 978-1580070638
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds

Product Description

The Hawker Sea Fury is a bit of a mystery to most aircraft enthusiasts. If they're familiar with Hawker and Sydney Camm's designs, this plane--the Royal Navy's last prop-driven fighter--is known to them, though not with much detail. Reno racing fanatics also know the Fury and the Sea Fury, but to air race fans the Hawker design is just an airframe on which to hang the most powerful piston engine and biggest propeller possible.

Yet this last great piston design from the Hawker Aircraft Company is much more. In this volume the author tracts the interwinded development of Hawker and the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm, a relationship that would culminate in the Sea Fury. The story is told with words and a large collection of photographs--rare vintage shots of the Sea Fury in action and on the flight line, along with newer images of restored warbirds retired from the Fleet Air Arm and other air forces.