Sea Fury catapult launch

[BarneyNo Freddy]

Hi, think about doing a Sea Fury during carrier catapult launch but not been able to find much references material. Does anybody have any pointers to info or images please?

 

Thanks in anticipation 

 

[David Womby]

Were Sea Furies or other prop naval fighters  launched from the deck use catapults?  I thought they came in with the jet era.

 

Hurricanes were launched from catapults off non-aircraft carrier ships.

 

David

[Graham Boak]

The RN had catapults before WW2, but they called them accelerators.  The main role was for heavily loaded strike aircraft, but they were used by fighters too when the deck was otherwise busy.  Sea Hurricanes Mk.1b were fitted with spools and pick-up points as well as arrester hooks.

[Shake]

Sea Furies where certainly able to be launched by catapults, they where equipped with  with a catapult hook under the fuselage and an attachment (Tail hook?) for the hold back ring.

To my surprise it was very difficult to find photo's or film with a catapult launch of a Sea Fury, but I did find these:

 

Hawker Sea Fury arrestor trials, sea trials on Illustrious 1949, and in full action.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvsVGtVOc_A (unfortunately embedding is not allowed)

 

And this is from a Dutch television program about a faulty catapult launch which the pilot survived after sinking to about 50 meters depth.

 

And this is a still sequence from the incident.

 

(Collectie: Nederlands Instituut Militaire Historie)

 

Sjaak

Edited March 16 by Shake
Fingertrouble with Youtube embedding

[Grey Beema]

The Airfix 1/48 Sea Fury comes with RATOG (?) rockets but I’m not sure if these were used for catapult take off or just normal take off assistance.

 

Also what was the take off configuration, I would assume 10° flap but not sure..

[Grey Beema]

Quick butchers at the IWM Photo collection renders only this one…

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http:// WITH HMS THESEUS DURING COMBINED HOME AND MEDITERRANEAN FLEET EXERCISES (GRAND SLAM?). MARCH 1952, ON BOARD THE LIGHT FLEET CARRIER HMS THESEUS, IN THE MEDITERRANEAN.. Image: IWM (A 32073) IWM Non Commercial License

 

 

 

[BarneyNo Freddy]

Shake, thanks that video was really useful, I had seen one with guys connecting a hook but I had assumed it was 'conventional' set up with one under each wing but that video shows a single central catapult hook, not seen that before.

[NAVY870]

Sea Fury has a single spring loaded hook that retracts back into the fuselage when not in use. 

It is mounted on the centre line just forward of the main gear well.

[BarneyNo Freddy]

I have only seen the video clip that Shake flagged, struggled to find any other images, anybody know if the aircraft got airborne tail down or did it lift the tail to a level attitude?

[Junchan]

There is a photo of a Sea Fury, though it was revere printed, being catapulted from HMS Glory in the IWM photo collection.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205162873

 

Jun in Tokyo

https://www.flickr.com/photos/horaburo/albums/

[JagRigger]

https://www.britishpathe.com/asset/85431/

 

40 sec in 🙂

[BarneyNo Freddy]

That's the best bit video I've seen thank you