Hawker Typhoon/Sea Fury compatibility

The Sea Fury is completely different, as mentioned above. The Typhoon and Tempest use identical part numbers for their rear fuselage sections aft of the cockpit splice (except for early Typhoon with the smaller rear horizontal and Tempest modified V-stab fairing and different tail splice frame). The Fury/Sea Fury use entirely new construction, formers skins and stringers are all different. Stringers are close, but still different. May I ask why?

The Typhoon and Tempest fuselage are compatible but the Sea Fury has a different shape to the cross section of the formers to allow for the raised cockpit.

Graham

Didn’t the Typhoon have some serious tailcone-weakness problems? Certainly, if so, they wouldn’t have carried the same tailcone forward to a new design.

There was some strengthening around the problem area but it was resolved with the Tempest.

Didn’t the Typhoon have some serious tailcone-weakness problems? Certainly, if so, they wouldn’t have carried the same tailcone forward to a new design.

No the Tempest and Typhoon both used a monocoque rear fuselage and steel tube forward fuselage. The Sea Fury rear end is similar .

I don’t think it was: Wasn’t the Sea Fury was the first Hawker fighter to finally get away from the Hurricane-style tubing fuselage frame?