DAN SHUMAKER COLLECTION
No. 13739. Hawker High-Speed Fury (K3586) Air Ministry
Photograph from Hawker
Aeroplane Photo Supply (APS) Photo No. 565

Hawker High-Speed Fury

11/30/2019. Remarks by Johan Visschedijk: "Initially known as the Super Fury, but later more correctly referred to as the High-Speed Fury, this was yet another Fury-related aircraft developed by H.G. Hawker Engineering Co. Ltd. It was designed as a private venture to conform to Specification F.14/32, but immediately before its first flight on May 3, 1933 it was placed on Air Ministry Experimental Charge and serialled K3586.

Throughout the period 1933-1936 K3586 amassed a total of over 800 hours' test flying, being fitted in turn with six different Rolls-Royce engines: 525 hp Kestrel IIS, 600 hp Kestrel S (Special), 525 hp Kestrel IIIS, 600 hp Kestrel VIS, 695 hp Goshawk III and Goshawk B.41.

When fitted with evaporative-cooled engines, K3586 featured a straight wing with built-in leading edge condensers, but for most of its life it was fitted with a tapered swept-back wing, equipped with V-shaped interplane-struts. In the latter form the aircraft was flown by Bulman at the SBAC Display at RAF Hendon on June 26, 1933.

The aircraft was disposed of in April 1939 and became a ground instruction airframe under the code 1436M."


Created November 30, 2019