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EFL6065 Hawker Sea Fury 480 ARF

The Hawker Sea Fury is constructed from Z-Foam™ resulting in a lightweight, durable and easily repairable model.

The model features a host of scale detail such as accurately moulded panel lines, painted pilot figure, cockpit detail and canopy, and additional scale details include pre-painted dummy under-wing rockets and the option to fit retractable landing gear. All of the parts are included for either of the landing gear options.

Out of the box the Sea Fury can be flown with throttle, ailerons and elevator control, or with the optional use of rudder and steerable tail-wheel.

The Sea Fury has a semi-elliptical shaped wing and features pre-installed spars, hinges and control horns and offers gentle flight characteristics with the lightly loaded wing providing great slow speed handling and smooth flight. The bolt-on wing is easily removed for transport and access to on-board electronics, and the other electronics are easily accessible through the magnetic battery hatch.

The Sea Fury has a factory installed stick motor mount and can be powered with either E-flite's 370-400 size gearboxes or Park 400-450-480 brushless outrunner motors, coupled with a 3-cell 11.1V 1800-2200mah LiPo battery pack the model has excellent scale performance and superb flight duration.

EFL6065 Hawker Sea Fury

The Hawker Sea Fury was a fighter aircraft developed for the British Fleet Air Arm and was the last propeller-driven fighter to serve with the Royal Navy. Too late for service in World War Two it was nonetheless a very competent aircraft and represented the ultimate in piston-engine aircraft development, being among the fastest piston-engine aircraft ever built.

Designed in 1942 by Sidney Camm, the famous Hawker designer, the original design was modified in 1943 to meet a Royal Navy request for a carrier-based fighter. Boulton-Paul Aircraft were to make the conversion while the Hawker factory continued work on the Royal Air Force design.

The first Sea Fury prototype flew on February 21, 1945 powered by a Bristol Centaurus XII radial engine and although equipped with a tail hook for arrested carrier landings, lacked folding wings. The second prototype was powered by a Centaurus XV engine and did have folding wings, however while both prototypes were still undergoing aircraft-carrier landing trials, the Japanese surrendered in 1945.

The end of the war also marked the end of development of the land-based Fury whilst the Royal Navy subsequently reduced the number of aircraft in their contract to 100.

Approved for carrier landings in the spring of 1947, the Sea Fury remained the Fleet Air Arm's (FAA) primary fighter-bomber until 1953. In the Korean War the Fury served with distinction as a ground-attack aircraft, and notably on the 8th August 1952 in a rare "prop verses jet dogfight" FAA pilot Lieutenant Peter "Hoagy" Carmichael RN shot down a MiG-15 jet powered aircraft; no mean achievement!

The last squadron of Royal Navy Sea Fury's was deactivated in 1955, though dozens were exported to other countries, including Canada, the Netherlands, Iraq, Egypt, Burma, and Cuba. The final production figures for all marks reached around 860 aircraft.