Sea Fury

[Big_Jim]

I have heard some rumblings that this bird may be a racer soon?

http://fotodj.com/willow_run_static_displays/slides/EH05_034.html

Any confirmation?

I\\\\\\\'ve never seen it in person. How come a military scheme but no markings?

[Inverted]

Re: Sea Fury

Looks like sept fury before she was painted. I think it was fury, maybe it was pops...

[Doug Fisher]

Re: Sea Fury

That is Sandy Thompsons Sea Fury based in Hamilton, Ontario Canada.

[Smee Again]

Re: Sea Fury

Interesting to note that it appears to have the oversized carbon-fiber spinner commonly used on racing Sea Furies. I'd love to see it turn the sticks in '09.

SA

[supercub]

Re: Sea Fury

Where is Willow Run.......looks like one heck of an airshow. Is this a yearly event, would love to go.

[retroaviation]

Re: Sea Fury

It was formally a Tmk.20, converted to a single seater years ago. I put the engine on this bird back in 2001, and it was a stock "dirty-three-filthy" then. I doubt it has been changed. If it were to race, it would probably end up somewhere in the Silver. The carbon fiber spinner is merely part of the firewall forward conversion that Nelson Ezell builds for the Sea Furies.

Hope that helps.

Gary

[TWD]

Re: Sea Fury

Anybody got a picture as a T-20.
This would be a new one to me.
TJ

[mayday51]

Re: Sea Fury

Where is Willow Run.......looks like one heck of an airshow. Is this a yearly event, would love to go.

Willow Run is west of Detroit,MI
Ford motor Co built B-24 bombers there during WWll
it does have a complicated history (for a smaller place)

here is a map link from the "Yankee Air Force" who are located there
(as is Kalitta Air and Jack Roush's hangers)

inhttp://www.yankeeairmuseum.org/contact-us.html/at Yspsilanti,MI

....the area was part of my youth's stomping grounds..........

[T. Adams]

Re: Sea Fury

Where is Willow Run.......looks like one heck of an airshow. Is this a yearly event, would love to go.

Thunder Over Michigan is held there every year.

[retroaviation]

Re: Sea Fury

Anybody got a picture as a T-20.
This would be a new one to me.
TJ

I don't have amy pictures of this airplane before it was modified, but it was being built in Canada, I think, by a fella who is no longer with us. Man, I just can't think of his name though. Nelson is the one that told me about the airplane's past, so I believe it to be true. Sorry I'm not more help than that.

Gary

[Race5]

Re: Sea Fury

I have heard some rumblings that this bird may be a racer soon?

http://fotodj.com/willow_run_static_displays/slides/EH05_034.html

Any confirmation?

I\\\\\\\'ve never seen it in person. How come a military scheme but no markings?

Actually I think it is the same owner, but different Sea Fury.

[Peashooter]

Re: Sea Fury

Actually I think it is the same owner, but different Sea Fury.

The caption says "Chuck Greenhill." Even though that one was not his, he's since sold one and bought one...

[sierra fox]

Re: Sea Fury

you guys are all thinking of Chuck Greenhills "OTHER" Sea Fury

[Big_Jim]

Re: Sea Fury

Anybody know what the deal is with the paint scheme? Why no markings? I think it looks like a British scheme--too dark on top for an Australian job, and the Canadians were blue-grey.

Without the markings it looks kind of naked.

[Sneauxman]

Re: Sea Fury

His "other" Sea Fury is called Furias. Chuck wants to race and win. The pieces are coming together.
Where do these new racer guys come from?