Hawker Sea Fury Runway Requirements

[Guptar]

Just curious after watching some videos, on the length & width for a runway required to operate a warbird as a home base. Assumptions are asphalt, day only with clear approaches. It seems that many of the fields these are operated out of are around 1100m.

Sea Fury
A1 Skraider
Mustang

[Stickshift3000]

Found an empty asphalt highway?

[chimbu warrior]

The Sea Fury was capable of deck landings; with strings attached...........

[Lead Balloon]

If you watch the warbird ops at YTEM, many of the single engined aircraft use the grass...

[drpixie]

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/639x467/7829211102_94bc2c1e02_z_1a896ccb42f7ef0b5b59d8e3a5e8d40202cb 975a.jpg

About 210m in Australia.

[Tee Emm]

Pilots Notes Sea Fury A.P. 4018A May 1950. The only takeoff performance chart is for rocket-assisted take-off. RAF and RAAF Pilots Notes Mustang and other military types do not have take-off and landing distance charts. You simply 'eye-ball' the length and hope it's enough to get airborne.

[Momoe]

Quick google brought up North American's own data sheet on the P-51D

North American P-51D performance figures (http://www.wwiiaircraftperformance.org/mustang/p-51d-na-46-130.html)

1040ft to get airborne at gross is pretty respectable, though 1720ft to clear a 50ft obstacle shows how the laminar wing didn't work well at lower speeds

[TBM-Legend]

Sea Fury and A-1 both did 'free deck" takeoffs with about a 20 knot headwind from carriers using 500-600 ft deck runs. P-51 also did carrier trials too..

[27/09]

I'd have thought a well prepared grass runway would be quite suitable unless the aircraft model in question was quite heavy. After all the Mustang was operated of grass airfields very successfully during WWII.

[PDR1]

though 1720ft to clear a 50ft obstacle shows how the laminar wing didn't work well at lower speeds

No, it just shows low acceleration. Rate of climb is an "available excess thrust over drag" issue, not a lift coefficient issue.

PDR