The question is ”how many more Centaurus failures can the Royal Navy Historic Flight accommodate before, however regretfully, they give it up as a bad job ?”

Hopefully they will stick with it, and enjoy better fortune than recent years. Their troubled experiences, though, are not matched by Sanders aeronautics (USA) who have been restoring and campaigning stock Sea Furies for 30 or more years, and have not been dogged by endless engine issues, for whatever reasons.

Purists may not appreciate the R2800 substitution option , but at least the darn thing keeps going!

Seems that the Centaurus is a big issue these days was it always so ?
Maybe the old skills needed to make them run successfully lost in the mists of time.

Way back in the late 50’s I used to sit on Southsea/Eastney beach,
watching the Seafury’s running in on the gunnery school at Fraser.
They would turn up most regularly so much so no one bothered to take photos .. aah.

Here it is the USAF one at Dayton in 1991 shame all marks removed. Terry[ATTACH=CONFIG]245730[/ATTACH]

Take a taxi very cheap and I asked one of the museum staff about return to town taxi and they phoned and got one to come for me.

Hi Charlie, Interesting topic think they will be looking at a several screens reading “Out of order”the Curator of Yeovilton many moons ago said to me it would mostly be interactive.Finding it happening more and more, at several places, sadly with the above. Any one else had this experience?

HI K5054NZ Ref Duxmans 51with tanks, photo my one looks good to.
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Respectfully suggest a look at the aircraft he has restored would be in order .