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SeaFire vs SeaFury?
propboy44256
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Posted: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 04:26 AM UTC
Ive done a 1/48 Sea fury..Now I see a Seafire..they look very similar,,Can anybody enlighten us on the differences and similarities?
brandydoguk
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Posted: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 04:59 AM UTC
Hi propboy44256, I suppose the most obvious difference is the seafire had an inline engine whist the sea fury had a radial. The seafire's undercarriage retracted outwards and the sea fury's retracted inwards. Both had a form of elliptical wing, the sea fury had a radiator in the wing leading edge, the spitfire radiators were under the wing. The sea fury is widely regarded as the best piston engined naval fighter ever but by the time it came into service it was obsolete as the jet fighter was becoming widespread. However the sea fury did see combat during the Korean war.


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Posted: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 05:15 AM UTC
To augment what Martin said, the Sea Fury was the last in the line of Sydney Camm-designed piston Hawker fighters. You can see the family resemblance to the radial-engined Tempests. The Seafire was developed from the Spitfire, although it had few actual components in common with the land variants.
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