Hawker Sea Fury Mk10 for the Tempest Slot in European Air War
By Charles Gunst - May 2001

This Hawker Sea Fury replaces the Tempest in EAW, and is intended for use with ECA (Enemy Coast Ahead) Control Panel (which is available from most of the websites listed below). The Sea Fury takes the place of the Tempest, using ECA Control Panel v3.4 or later.

To install, just unzip the *.TPC, *.3DZ, *.MPC and *.WSP files in this zip file into your EAW directory (the one with EAW.EXE in it). 

You will have a new aircraft 3D shape, with a new skin, and even a new hangar screen to go with them. 

To un-install, simply remove those files from your EAW directory.

I have included three different skin options in this zip file:
1. Royal Navy (RN) skin.
2. Royal Australian Navy (RAN) skin.
3. Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) skin.
In each case these are fictional but typical skins from aircraft on active naval air arm service in the late 1940's or early 1950's. The default skin when you open this zip file is the RN skin. The RAN and RCN skins are contained in the zip files AusFury.zip and CanFury.zip respectively. 

The enclosed JPG pictures BritFury.JPG, AusFury.JPG and CanFury.JPG show you the look of each skin. The JPG picture FuryHngr.JPG shows you the look of the new hangar screen. 

The Sea Fury 3D shape and the new hangar screen are by me, and the skins are a joint effort of Jamie Richards and me. The sharpened virtual-cockpit dials are by Angeleyes of the 666th Red Skulls, and the hangar screen animation-stopper file (TMPSTFLY.WSP) is from -E. The only possible conflict with this aircraft arises from the fact that the Fury uses the 5-bladed propellor from the EAW Spitfire XIV, so if you load a completely dissimilar 3D shape and skin into the Spitfire XIV slot, you may get an oddly coloured propellor in-flight in the Fury. The wide-view cockpit is by Jamie Richards.

There are plenty of websites with other EAW skins and shapes. I can't list them all, but try these sites (and most have links to many others):

  Airbuddha's Hangar: http://thehangar.dogfighter.com/
  Alessandro's: http://www.geocities.com/alessandroborges/aces_over_gyn_index.htm
  Cord's: http://eaw.thrustmaster.com/
  -E's: http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Alley/6644/
  Geo's: http://users.snip.net/~lekko/
  Lentulaiuvue 34's Skins: http://www.muodos.fi/LLv34/
  Manduca's: http://kikegg.batcave.net
  Major Lee's Aerodrome: http://www.kvi.net/~majorlee
  Migge's: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/4145/
  Mosi's: http://mosi.thrustmaster.com/
  Musgrove's: http://12iap.topcities.com/musgrove.htm
  Relent's: http://www.sonic.net/jcam/eawskins/
  Serb's Flightline: http://www.emucities.com/emu/leisure/serb/
  Stan's Stuff: http://stanley99.topcities.com/

History of the Hawker Sea Fury
The Hawker Fury was designed by Sydney Camm (the designer of the Hurricane, inter alia) in 1943, as a smaller, lighter version of the Hawker Tempest. It was not used in service during WWII, but might have been, if the war had lasted longer. It made its first prototype flight in February 1945. At the end of WWII the RAF cancelled its production contracts, in preference to jets. The Royal Navy continued with the aircraft, naming it the Sea Fury, and it became the Fleet Air Arm's last piston-engined fighter. 

The Sea Fury was fast, being powered by a 2480 hp Bristol Centaurus 18 eighteen-cylinder air-cooled radial engine. Maximum speed was 460 mph at 18,000 feet. An altitude of 30,000 feet could be reached in 10.8 minutes. Range without external tanks was 700 miles, and 1040 miles with two drop tanks. Service ceiling was 35,600 feet. Weights were 9240 lbs empty and 12,500 lbs loaded. Armament was four 20-mm Hispano cannon in the wings, plus underwing racks for bombs, drop tanks, and/or rockets.

Five RN Fleet Air Arm squadrons were equipped with the Sea Fury, and it saw widespread service with other navies and air forces, including those of Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Pakistan, Burma, Egypt and Cuba. 

The Royal Australian Navy Sea Furies saw extensive action in Korea, operating from the carrier HMAS Sydney. Five RN squadrons also used the aircraft in Korea, operating from HMS Ocean, HMS Theseus, and HMS Glory. They were primarily used as fighter-bombers, attacking ground targets, but there was air-to-air action. The first kill of a MiG-15 by a Sea Fury (a machine flown by Lt. Peter Carmichael of 802 Sq RN) was made on August 9, 1952.

I hope you enjoy the Sea Fury. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments.

Charles Gunst

GunstQC@aol.com

May 2001
