Hand-built, 1988, Isaacs Fury II, in its hanger at Solley's Farm, Ripple, Kent
The Isaacs Fury is a British homebuilt sporting biplane designed by John Isaacs as a seven-tenths scale replica of the Hawker Fury fighter. Using the Currie Wot construction methods as a basis, John Isaacs designed a single-seat wood and fabric sporting biplane for homebuilders. It was a seven-tenths replica of the 1935 Hawker Fury biplane fighter. It was a single-bay biplane with a fixed tailskid landing gear and powered by a 65 hp (48 kW) Walter Mikron III piston engine in the nose with a two-bladed propeller. It has a single-seat open cockpit just aft of the wing. The prototype (G-ASCM) built by the designer between 1961 and 1963 at Southampton, England, first flew from Thruxton Aerodrome on 30 August 1963. Between 1966 and 1967 the aircraft was re-engined with a 125 hp (93 kW) Lycoming O-290-D engine and first flown as the Fury Mk 2 in May 1967. The design was made available to amateur constructors. The rights to plans for the design are held by the UK Light Aircraft Association
Size: 5607px × 3195px
Location: Solley's Estate, Ripple, Deal, Kent CT14 8JL
Photo credit: © John Gaffen / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: -290-, -bladed, -cylinder, -tenths, 011-10038, 125, 1988, air-cooled, aircraft, aviation, biplane, british, cockpit, construction, currie, dual, engine, engine., fabric, farm, fury, gear, hand-built, hanger, hawker, homebuilt, horizontally, hp, ignition, ii, isaacs, john, kent, landing, lycoming, methods, open, opposed, pfa, piston, plane, private, propeller, replica, ripple, scale, single-bay, single-seat, solleys, sporting, tail, tailskid, wheels, wood, wot
