neilh Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 I understand that at the time of the Bay of Pigs, the Sea Furies were painted in an overall Olive drab. Does anyone know what colour the inside faces of the gear covers and wells would have been? Several mentions online suggest the surviving example in the museum has been repainted in a "fantasy" scheme. I'm guessing the bays might be Hawker yellow, legs would be aluminium or light aircraft grey? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 Take your best guess mate. Of the 17 aircraft that Cuba had, only 4 or 5 were serviceable to combat the invasion and those were reportedly serviced by stripping the unserviceable aircraft, so it could have been as factory painted or touched up by the Cubans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junchan Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 There are a few B/W photos of the Cuban olive drab Sea Furies in "Hawker Sea Fury in action" and "Latin American Air Wars and Aircraft 1912-1969" which show the inside the gear covers in a lighter color. It is very likely that the inside the gear covers as well as wheel wells were retained original color of silver dope. Jun in Tokyo https://www.flickr.com/photos/horaburo/albums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NAVY870 Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Fury and Sea Fury gear wells were painted Hawker yellow, never ZC or silver as has been noted incorrectly many times Hawker yellow was used as a primer by Hawkers on all internal surfaces of Furies including engine bays gun bays and gear wells. This is confirmed by my observations of several unrestored aircraft (VW.647 VW.623 VW.232 & WG.630) Gear doors were usually the underside colour 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilh Posted March 28, 2017 Author Share Posted March 28, 2017 Thanks all. I have made my own mix of Hawker yellow for the engine bay and gear wells based upon the visible parts of the wheel bay at Yeovilton. To me, it's more of a yellow cream colour than the green hues YZC. Perhaps I will use it for the insides of the doors. Photos on line also show a lighter shade and as the overall colour was Olive green it could be the interior primer colour or maybe aluminium paint? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NAVY870 Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Gun spouts and gun bays on our FB.11 original and untouched. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rholland Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Thanks again Steve for your continuing support and absolute goldmine of information. Richard in NZ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilh Posted March 28, 2017 Author Share Posted March 28, 2017 Now that's interesting. Even allowing for lighting/flash that wheel bay seems to have what I have thought of as " Hawker yellow" ( area under the "pipes" and some of the flanges), a much " greener" yellow like US ZC ( LH side foreground) and almost US interior green (in the centre), plus a mustard colour at the far end! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NAVY870 Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 On 3/29/2017 at 1:05 AM, neilh said: Now that's interesting. Even allowing for lighting/flash that wheel bay seems to have what I have thought of as " Hawker yellow" ( area under the "pipes" and some of the flanges), a much " greener" yellow like US ZC ( LH side foreground) and almost US interior green (in the centre), plus a mustard colour at the far end! All the metal work is the same colour, what your seeing is various discolouration caused by many years of grub plus the preservative the aircraft got doused in at one stage. There are various fabric/leather like pads in there as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilh Posted March 31, 2017 Author Share Posted March 31, 2017 Ah, thanks Steve. I guess the Hawker yellow is the pale creamy yellow. Now you mentioned it I think I can see the texture of the fabric / leather strips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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