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I patterned my Hawker Sea Fury after Robin Crandall’s beautiful “Sawbones”. A complete write-up follows the video's & pictures. |
Sawbones Video’s |
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Robin Crandall’s Hawker Sea Fury Sawbones |
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The Hawker Sea Fury was a British fighter aircraft developed for the Royal Navy by Hawker during the Second World War. The last piston-driven fighter to serve with the Royal Navy, it was also one of the fastest production single engine piston driven aircraft ever built reaching a speed of 485 mph. A demilitarized Sea Fury holds the unofficial speed-record for a piston-engined aircraft in level flight at 547 mph. I will patterned my Hawker Sea Fury after Robin Crandall’s beautiful “Sawbones” which started life as Sea Fury FB.11, N71GB & was originally delivered to the Iraqi AF as 325, November, 1953. N71GB was originally brought over from Iraq by Talichet and Jurist in the 1980's. The fuselage was "used" but the wings and tail section were "new" according to logbooks. The aircraft was originally an FB-11, but has the slightly larger MK-20 horizontal stabilizer and was built up by George Baker who retained it as his personal airshow aircraft calling it "Sky Fury". As were most of these aircraft from Iraq, the original Bristol-Centaurus engine was removed and replaced with the Wright "Cyclone" R-3350-26, basically a Skyraider engine. The aircraft passed through several owners and has been raced at Reno several times. It is a competitive aircraft taking second place in the unlimited silver when last raced in 2009. The oil cooling system has been reworked by Nelson Ezell. The fuel system on N71GB has been simplified to incorporate one large newly installed fuselage tank of 140 gallons and only one reserve integral wing tank. Two 90 gallon drop tanks can be used for longer range flights. The other wing tanks have been converted to spray bar cooling water on the left side, and ADI fluid on the right. The instrument panel has been modernized with recent digital nav/coms, GPS, HSI, fuel flow meter and other safety features. Owner & Pilot, Robin Crandall is a practicing Orthopedist (hence the name Sawbones) as well as an accomplished pilot. He can often be seen flying his SNJ with the performance team T-6 Thunder and most recently Sawbones! Robin will fly Sawbones from his home base in Blaine, MN to Reno to compete in the 2013 National Championship Air Races. You can find out more about Sawbones at: http://sawbonesair.com/default.html I purchased my Hawker Sea Fury Kit, Seidel Prop & Moki S250 gas engine on June 19, 2013 from Vogelsang Aeroscale. You can visit this website at: http://www.team-aeroscale.com/index.html SHawker Sea Fury Sawbones Specifications:
Moki S250 5 cylinder Radial 4 Stroke Gas
Seidel Props
Radio Equipment:
Power Box
Dan Gill-Detail 4 Scale
Unilight-Landing Lights Jersey Modeler RC Fuel Filler System Trossen Robotic-1-Firgelli FR-L1-!00-210-6-1 Linear Motion Actuator to open & canopy |
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