Hawker Fury Monoplane Project of 1933

[hesham]

Hi,


the Hawker company developed in 1933,a monoplane version of its
Fury biplane fighter,it remained a drawing board only.


http://alternathistory.org.ua/fury-monoplane-ili-nemnogo-o-kharrikeine

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Or alternatively it became the Hurricane....

 

[hesham]

Yes my dear Paul.

 

[royabulgaf]

Start with a Hurricane, graft a Gladiator canopy and deck on it, and see what you have around in the way of cantilever spatted landing gear.

 

[robunos]

http://airfixtributeforum.myfastforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=413&t=36616&hilit=fury+monoplane ;D

cheers,
Robin.

 

[cluttonfred]

The Fury Monoplane could potentially have been quite a leap forward for its day. For comparison, the Miles M.20 stopgap fighter prototype of 1940 was a compromise design using as many Miles M.9 Master advanced trainer parts as possible and fixed gear to simplify construction. The result was a fighter midway between the Hurricane and the Spitfire in terms of performance with exactly the same engine, but with twice the fuel and twice the ammunition thanks to the weight saved and the volume made available in the wings by the fixed gear.

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

It was revised to meet the RAF requirement (F5/34) and the new Merlin engine added to become the Hurricane.

 

[hesham]

It was revised to meet the RAF requirement (F5/34) and the new Merlin engine added to become the Hurricane.

Thank you my dear Paul,


and also from the same source.

 

[Schneiderman]

It was revised to meet the RAF requirement (F5/34) and the new Merlin engine added to become the Hurricane.

Actually it was developed in parallel with F.5/34, not to meet it, under the Air Ministry's experimental fighter programme. A brief outline spec. was then written around it, F36/34, and subsequently it was tweaked to meet many of the requirements of F.10/35, which was then withdrawn. In so doing it moved from the experimental programme into the mainstream service fighter programme. The aircraft designed to meet F.5/34 suffered as a consequence as they were considered lower priority.

I have this image in my collection but cannot remember where I found it online. It is drawing E.57540 but clearly earlier than the version with the same number dated August 1934 which is included in Sydney Camm and the Hurricane which is the design that formed the basis for the F.36/34 spec. Does anyone knows the source or date of the drawing?

 

[hesham]

Nice Info Schneiderman.

 

[fightingirish]

HURRICANE GESTATION by John Sweetman
The new monoplane fighter design represented quite a risk for Hawker

Link: https://aeroplanemonthly.keypublishing.com/the-magazine/view-issue/?issueID=8149

 

[Grey Havoc]

Hawker Fury Monoplane: One, Two, ..

As early as in 1925, the same year he became Chief designer at the Hawker company, Sydney Camm designed his first monoplane fighter. The latter was not built, but Camm already knew the time of the …

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[Justo Miranda]

From "Interceptor" by James Goulding, Ian Allan, 1986.

 

[TsrJoe]

Looking at the ga. drawing (with a view to modelling), is that a wooden skinned wing ? or something more akin to early fabric covered Hurricane ?

cheers, Joe

 

[Schneiderman]

Looking at the ga. drawing (with a view to modelling), is that a wooden skinned wing ? or something more akin to early fabric covered Hurricane ?

cheers, Joe

The wing plan is very similar to that of the earliest Hurricane design, a little smaller and with slightly greater sweep on the trailing edge, so as structural design at Hawker during this period was progressive I would consider fabric covering to be the more likely.

 

[TsrJoe]

Thanks Ralph, il go with a subtle fabric covering on the wings. As you say a structural progression from Fury to Hurricane

cheers, Joe