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REAL TO REPLICA RED SERIES 16
The Hawker Sea Fury
by Paul Bradley with Andy Evans

The Hawker Sea Fury was a British fighter aircraft designed and manufactured by Hawker Aircraft. It was the last propeller-driven fighter to serve with the Royal Navy. Developed during the Second World War, the Sea Fury entered service two years after the war ended. It proved to be a popular aircraft with overseas militaries and was used during the Korean War in the early 1950s, and by the Cuban air force during the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion. The development of the Sea Fury began in 1943 in response to a wartime requirement of the Royal Air Force (RAF), with the aircraft first named Fury. As the Second World War drew to a close, the RAF cancelled its order for the aircraft. The Royal Navy saw the type as a suitable carrier aircraft to replace a range of obsolescent and stop-gap aircraft being operated by the Fleet Air Arm. Development of the Sea Fury proceeded, and the type entered operational service in 1947. The Sea Fury has many design similarities to Hawker’s preceding Tempest fighter, having originated from a requirement for a ‘Light Tempest Fighter’. As the ‘Real to Replica’ title suggests there is also a section on how to model the Sea Fury in popular scales, making this book an ideal source for both the enthusiast and scale modeller alike.
124 PAGES
RRP: 27.99