Hawker Fury MK II Persian Export Version – Radial Engine Equipped
The Hawker Fury Mk I, which was not a sales success, entered service in 1931 and was the first RAF fighter to exceed 200 m.p.h. in level flight. The Mark II, with a cleaned up airframe and reduced drag, was even faster and had a better rate of climb. Aesthetically it was one of the most elegant biplanes to enter service with the RAF.
Perhaps the more interesting Mk II Furies were the Persian export versions. The Persian Furies had Pratt & Whitney Hornet radials. Grafting a high drag radial engine onto an airplane originally designed with a sleek aerodynamic nose was not a trivial engineering task. Revised center of gravity, tail weighting, wing angle of incidence, etc all come into play, resulting in an airplane with different flight handling characteristics.
Semi scale flight performance somewhat based on parameters of the real life full sized airplane.
A fairly decent flier.
The Hawker Fury Mk I, which was not a sales success, entered service in 1931 and was the first RAF fighter to exceed 200 m.p.h. in level flight. The Mark II, with a cleaned up airframe and reduced drag, was even faster and had a better rate of climb. Aesthetically it was one of the most elegant biplanes to enter service with the RAF.
Perhaps the more interesting Mk II Furies were the Persian export versions. The Persian Furies had Pratt & Whitney Hornet radials. Grafting a high drag radial engine onto an airplane originally designed with a sleek aerodynamic nose was not a trivial engineering task. Revised center of gravity, tail weighting, wing angle of incidence, etc all come into play, resulting in an airplane with different flight handling characteristics.
Semi scale flight performance somewhat based on parameters of the real life full sized airplane.
A fairly decent flier.