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Title: Anyone know what this is
Post by: dkff49 on June 11, 2008, 05:12:40 PM: I and a fellow AHer met at WWII weekend in Reading, PA and saw this plane there. There was no sign around to tell us what it was and that cover over the canopy did not come off the entire time we were there. I believe that the fellow AHer said that he thought it was a bearkat but neither of us is sure. We also could find anyone there that knew for sure what it was. This is the best picture I have of it too.

(http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm146/dkff49/Untitled_0001_0001.jpg)

Thanks
Title: Re: Anyone know what this is
Post by: Lusche on June 11, 2008, 05:15:17 PM: Looks like a Hawker Sea Fury to me.

(http://www.bredow-web.de/Museum_Duxford/Hawker_Sea_Fury/Sea_Fury-3.JPG)
Title: Re: Anyone know what this is
Post by: dkff49 on June 11, 2008, 05:26:29 PM: thanks lusche

right after you posted i searched the bearcat and found that it could not be that.

That pic you posted looks just like it

:salute

you are king
Title: Re: Anyone know what this is
Post by: Motherland on June 11, 2008, 05:28:31 PM: I was going to go to that, but I forgot :furious
Title: Re: Anyone know what this is
Post by: Serenity on June 11, 2008, 11:38:18 PM: I dont know... it still looks a little 'off' from all of the Sea Furies I've seen... especailly the spinner and canopy... modified perhaps?
Title: Re: Anyone know what this is
Post by: Noir on June 12, 2008, 02:51:09 AM: Looks like the propeller has got 2 blades on dkff49's picture, is that normal also ?
Title: Re: Anyone know what this is
Post by: wantok on June 12, 2008, 03:15:55 AM: Quote from: Noir on June 12, 2008, 02:51:09 AM
Looks like the propeller has got 2 blades on dkff49's picture, is that normal also ?
I think it's 4... if you take a close look you can see one blade facing directly toward the camera.
Title: Re: Anyone know what this is
Post by: Noir on June 12, 2008, 03:26:08 AM: Quote from: wantok on June 12, 2008, 03:15:55 AM
I think it's 4... if you take a close look you can see one blade facing directly toward the camera.

ok the perspective got me, its most likely its a sea fury then and it may be under restoration still, that would explain the strange canopy.
Title: Re: Anyone know what this is
Post by: gripen on June 12, 2008, 04:02:33 AM: Some of surviving Sea Furys have been modified for race flying; the P&W R-4360 instead Centaurus and the canopy might be different as well.
Title: Re: Anyone know what this is
Post by: KD303 on June 12, 2008, 05:22:54 AM: LOL, it's not a "strange canopy" - it's a protective cover.

It's a Fury - look at the slightly cranked wing and the tail.
Title: Re: Anyone know what this is
Post by: Noir on June 12, 2008, 07:15:37 AM: Quote from: KD303 on June 12, 2008, 05:22:54 AM
LOL, it's not a "strange canopy" - it's a protective cover.

I thougt so, I just couldn't word it :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Anyone know what this is
Post by: redman555 on June 12, 2008, 05:33:36 PM: Quote from: Noir on June 12, 2008, 02:51:09 AM
Looks like the propeller has got 2 blades on dkff49's picture, is that normal also ?

yea noticed that to

-BigBOBCH
Title: Re: Anyone know what this is
Post by: MiloMorai on June 12, 2008, 06:38:55 PM: Another pic of the Sea Fury from Thunder over Michigan 2006

(http://www.far148.com/TOM06_Chuck%20Greenhill%20Hawker%20Sea%20Fury%20T%2020.jpg)
http://www.far148.com/tom06.htm

C-FGAT (cn 41H/623282) On display at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum
(http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/middle/4/3/8/1016834.jpg)
Title: Re: Anyone know what this is
Post by: Serenity on June 12, 2008, 06:54:35 PM: Quote from: KD303 on June 12, 2008, 05:22:54 AM
LOL, it's not a "strange canopy" - it's a protective cover.

I was referring to the size/shape of the canopy, not the cover ;)
Title: Re: Anyone know what this is
Post by: Helm on June 19, 2008, 09:15:38 AM: Beautiful plane!

Helm ...out
Title: Re: Anyone know what this is
Post by: Rino on June 19, 2008, 12:18:33 PM: Quote from: Serenity on June 11, 2008, 11:38:18 PM
I dont know... it still looks a little 'off' from all of the Sea Furies I've seen... especailly the spinner and canopy... modified perhaps?

If it's the same sea fury that usually shows at Reading, it's got a Skyraider engine
and prop on it.
Title: Re: Anyone know what this is
Post by: Charge on June 27, 2008, 08:23:25 AM: That cover could be actually a "tent". I.e. it does not touch the canopy so that any dirt left between the canopy and cover would not scratch it.

-C+
Title: Re: Anyone know what this is
Post by: Furball on July 03, 2008, 06:54:59 PM: Quote from: Serenity on June 12, 2008, 06:54:35 PM
I was referring to the size/shape of the canopy, not the cover ;)

looks like it has been modified for 2 seats.