A Hawker Sea Fury with a Bristol Centarus engine:
There are a few Sea Furies around with either R-2800 or R-3350 engines. Those who have heard both fly say that there is no substitute for the Bristol engine.
A blog by a "sucker" and a "loser" who served her country in the Navy.
If you're one of the Covidiots who believe that COVID-19 is "just the flu",
that the 2020 election was stolen, or
especially if you supported the 1/6/21 insurrection,
leave now.
Slava Ukraini!
Sunday, January 2, 2022
5 comments:
House Rules #1, #2 and #6 apply to all comments. Rule #3 also applies to political comments.
In short, don't be a jackass. THIS MEANS YOU!
If you never see your comments posted, see Rule #7.
All comments must be on point and address either the points raised in the blog post or points raised by commenters in response.
Any comments that drift off onto other topics are subject to deletion.
(Please don't feed the trolls.)
中國詞不評論，冒抹除的風險。僅英語。
COMMENT MODERATION IS IN EFFECT UFN. This means that if you are an insulting dick, nobody will ever see it.
If I remember correctly Iraq was about the only export success this one had. I remain mistified at the sleeve valve concept. Is it something like a 2-stroke valve port? Does the sleeve move? One of the comrade's expert's here fill me in.
ReplyDeleteAhhh my favorite piston engine fighter, hence the seafury handle. The video title had it wrong as that wasn't the Hamilton Standard prop but the original Dowty Rotol. The option for using the R-2800 with the Spad prop gave new life to the airframe, as there aren't many Centaurus engines left, let alone D/R propellers. I listened to Ellsworth Goetschell (A long time Sea Fury owner) one afternoon at Oshkosh describe rebuilding a Centaurus. That was a loong afternoon, but an enjoyable one.
ReplyDeleteVery powerful! And yes, the biggest sleeve valve engine ever in production (I think). Yes Todd, the sleeves move and rotate much like typical valves, uncovering the intake and exhaust ports on the head itself. All of that is run off internal planetary gearing, making it less prone to breakage due to external forces (like bullets hitting the pushrods).
ReplyDeleteSomething along those lines Tod, Also remember that a Centaurus has something like double the parts of an R-2800.
ReplyDeleteIf British engineers can make five parts do the work of three, they will.
ReplyDelete