Iraqi Air Force – Gaëtan Marie's Aviation Profiles https://www.gaetanmarie.com High Quality Digital Aviation Art Sun, 20 Nov 2016 23:35:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.gaetanmarie.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/cropped-Favicon-32x32.png Iraqi Air Force – Gaëtan Marie's Aviation Profiles https://www.gaetanmarie.com 32 32 “Baghdad Fury” No 132 https://www.gaetanmarie.com/sea-fury-no-123-royal-iraqi-air-force/ https://www.gaetanmarie.com/sea-fury-no-123-royal-iraqi-air-force/#respond Thu, 24 Nov 2016 10:00:04 +0000 https://gaetanmarie.com/?p=1241 Continue reading “Baghdad Fury” No 132]]> royal-iraqi-air-force-fury-i-no-132-1952In December 1946, the Royal Iraqi Air Force ordered Sea Furies from Hawker. Iraqi Sea Furies were essentially de-navalized FB.11 with no arrester hook and an extended rudder. This example, number 132, was delivered in the classic RAF desert scheme: Azure Blue, Mid Stone and Dark Earth.

Several different designations can be found in literature for the Iraqi Sea Furies: Sea Fury FB.11, Sea Fury FB.60, Fury I or “Baghdad Fury” (the latter being only used internally by Hawker).

The spinner for this aircraft is often represented as painted Azure Blue. Although black & white photo interpretation is always difficult at best, I believe the spinner was either Dark Earth or more likely Mid Stone.

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