The Hawker Sea Fury is one of the best piston engine fighters of all time, AND it's so much more than that. The Sea Fury represents the end of an era. It also represents the best of British aviation in both a technical sense with it's Hawker designed wing and Bristol sleevevalve engine, backed up by decades of Sopwith and Hawker's experience building great fighter planes. When it comes to fighter planes, it doesn't get much more British than this and it's awesome.

A large portion of this video deals with sleeve valve engine history and design, so it's not only about the Sea Fury. There is a fair bit of automotive content in this video.

The video is long because there is just so much stuff

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ERRORS: I really messed up the fuel capacities by forgetting that the British were using Imperial gallons. That means the Sea Fury has the most internal fuel capacity by far and wins the range contest on internal fuel with relative ease.

Correct Fuel Capacities courtesy of MK Regular:
Sea Fury 240 US gallons (200 imperial gallons)
Bearcat 185 US gallons
Seafire 182.4 US gallons (152 imperial gallons)

When you consider maximum fuel capacity with drop tanks, the Bearcat still comes out on top due to the absolutely absurd amount of fuel it can carry in drop tanks and the Sea Fury falls behind to a point around 2/3 of the way from the Seafire to the Bearcat:

Bearcat 535 US gallons (185+150+2x100)
Sea Fury 456 US gallons (240+2x108) (200+2x90 imperial gallons)
Seafire 296.4 US gallons (182.4+60+2x27) (152+50+2x22.5 imperial gallons)

Also the P47N could get its 2800 horsepower on 130 octane fuel at least by 1950. It's not clear if this was the case during the war. The other 47s running 70" or above did use 150.