Ride in a Sea Fury...?!
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This one has an R2800 and a Grumman Guardian prop - sadly from the purist point of view - but it sounds brilliant and doesn't half go; and I suspect the R2800 is less troublesome than a Centaurus...
I don't care what kind of engine it has - I would love a ride in one - preferably a twin-stick one. I'm lucky enough to have had a ride in a Spitfire and a Mustang. While the Mustang ride was exhilarating - "Do you want to go for a buzz around the harbour?", it doesn't compare with actually poling a Spitfire around for a few minutes!
In the museum in Calgary, they have a cut-away Centaurus cylinder which is hooked up to a geared electric motor, so that you can watch the sleeve valve in action. I hadn't realized that the sleeve rotates in the cylinder as well as reciprocating! It hurts my head to imagine all that going on at a few thousand RPM!
In the museum in Calgary, they have a cut-away Centaurus cylinder which is hooked up to a geared electric motor, so that you can watch the sleeve valve in action. I hadn't realized that the sleeve rotates in the cylinder as well as reciprocating! It hurts my head to imagine all that going on at a few thousand RPM!
Napier were apparently not shy of adding extra bits - not an aero engine but this one seemed to work very well. The superchargers (pumps) are essential to its operation.
9 and 18 cylinder versions were produced. 3 banks and 6 banks respectively. Assembly and maintenance looks like fun!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3bj47TAYiU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napier_Deltic
9 and 18 cylinder versions were produced. 3 banks and 6 banks respectively. Assembly and maintenance looks like fun!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3bj47TAYiU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napier_Deltic
Napier were apparently not shy of adding extra bits - not an aero engine but this one seemed to work very well. The superchargers (pumps) are essential to its operation.
9 and 18 cylinder versions were produced. 3 banks and 6 banks respectively. Assembly and maintenance looks like fun!
9 and 18 cylinder versions were produced. 3 banks and 6 banks respectively. Assembly and maintenance looks like fun!
On the subject of Napier engines, when I was at London Queen Mary College in the early 1970s we had a Napier Nomad E145 compound turbo-diesel aero engine on the ground floor of the Aero Eng department. A very complex beast - and HUGE!
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There are four Napier Sabre airworthy restorations underway, two Typhoons from parts collections in the UK and Canada, and two Tempest Vs, one by Kermit Weekes in Florida (much of the work has been done by PPS at Booker) and one by Richard Grace at Sywell - if anyone can get one in the air Richard can! The UK Typhoon will incorporate a Tempest II fuselage.
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Back in the 1950s, the RAF used to have a few 'naughty boy' postings. Not as bad as OC GD Flt Machrihanish, but one of them was target towing at Sylt...
...flying the RAF's last Tempest Vs - from a popular German tourist resort island. That must have been pure hell!
...flying the RAF's last Tempest Vs - from a popular German tourist resort island. That must have been pure hell!
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Ah yes and no, the fuselage in question was originally ordered as a Typhoon, after completion, it was modified to a Tempest II standard but was never included in a complete airframe (it was a spare). Eighty odd years later the Tempest II mod kit is to be removed and the first time it’s going to be included in a complete aircraft it will be a Typhoon.
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Cheers Bagheera S!
Looks like it's from Doug Arnold's Indian cache and the rear fuselage will be attached to a Typhoon cockpit section. Hope all of these efforts attain fruition, also the various Tempest II projects around the planet - sure I saw a pic of one of them looking almost complete in a hangar at Tollerton some years ago?
Looks like it's from Doug Arnold's Indian cache and the rear fuselage will be attached to a Typhoon cockpit section. Hope all of these efforts attain fruition, also the various Tempest II projects around the planet - sure I saw a pic of one of them looking almost complete in a hangar at Tollerton some years ago?
