Good to see the Dauntless got down safely and the crew are okay.
🙂

TNZ

Interesting points there, Dave.
They must have been doing something right !!

Check this out from http://www.chuckhawks.com/brewster_buffalo.htm:-

At the beginning of hostilities, Finland had a mere 307 aircraft. The Soviets had a large assortment of both modern and outdated fighters including the I-152, I-153, MIG-1, MIG-3, Yak-1, and Yak-7; plus Spitfires, Hurricanes, P-40s, and P-39s supplied by the Western Allies. Despite overwhelming numerical and, in many cases, qualitative superiority the “Pylly Walteri” (the Finns nickname for the B-239) performed exceedingly well against the Soviets Air Force. By the end of the Continuation War (as the Finns dubbed it) they had downed 496 aircraft, losing only 19 B-239s.
Finnish air force records credit 41 kills to a single B-239 before it was shot down.
Ironically, the best kill-to-loss of any fighter in the Second World War (26-to-1) was garnered by an aircraft that is widely considered the worst fighter of the war.

That’s a horrendous kill ratio !!!!! 😮

TNZ

I don’t think so…this looks like a classic stall to me. Notice in the last shot, showing the Sea Fury coming over the stern of the ship, you can see the starboard wing is stalled, and it appears the port wing aileron is up, indicating that the pilot has full left stick in to try and pick up the stalled right wing. While we cannot see the tail it is almost certain that he had significant up elevator, given the angle of attack. This is what is known as being “behind the power curve”. At this point the pilot probably applied full power, which with his slow airspeed and full flaps was insufficient to fly him out of this corner.

The Sea Fury has excellent directional control, with a very effective rudder. A go-around is not difficult to execute, as the large vertical stab and rudder are very effective even at slow speed, and the plane does not have a tendency to drop a wing or torque roll with the addition of full power, provided the pilot is not behind the aircraft.

SRP

Thanks Steve for the very comprehensive answer.

Cheers
Chris
TNZ

Question,..

Perhaps “Jacks” incident was caused by torque-roll ?
Just an uneducated guess.

How vicious is the Centaurus on the Sea Fury ?

TNZ

The setting is really great with a wide airfield and Masterton is really beautiful.
They normally have the WW1 & WW2 reinactors there also (similar to Classic Fighters).

Oops, getting off the worst airshow thread….

TNZ

Ah well, I can concur on what those leaders are like !!!

You’ll just have to make the 400km trip to Masterton (which is only 2 months away!!).
Now that is getting better and better !!

Cheers
TNZ