the last biplane best fighter

Clay_Allison said:

The PZL P.7 was slower than the Hawker Fury and not as well armed.

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Mmmm..., difference in speed about 5 km/h.
Armament - both with two Vickers E

Faster was Fury Mk II, but it was from 1935 and could be compared with P.11c.

The parasssite fighter of TB-3 was I-4, -5, late I-Z and -16, not R-6 that was not a fighter I was for fighter in soviet designation pre design bureau name, the early I-4 and-5 were not so hard for Fury, the TB-3 it's sure hard to shoot down for Fury and for all other 2 mgs armed fighter.

Fury I and P.7 have near speed, Fury fastest ~10 km/h, but Fury go in service 2 years before. Fury II and P.1, there are many variant of P.11 oldest was not so fast ma c and later variant was fastest&earlier as o more of Fury II.
Other Tsaw was in right the Fury II it's later variant (also '36 maybe) so sure it have many monoplane fast competitor.
now i think we can no later '33 for the late biplane best fighter

PJay said:

There was the proposed Bi-plane Hurricane. Doubt if that counts though LOL.

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Hurricane was always a monoplane, original factory label was "Fury Monoplane" but here's an interesting thing you're probably referring to, some early MkI's were tested with a jettisonable top wing for use in ferry transportation, it was to cut fuel use and increase ferry range. I have a photo of a MkI being flown with the top wing in position, it's the weirdest looking thing, a Hurricane biplane, but this was the purpose of that modification. Hurricane was always a monoplane, the top wing would never have been used on a combat sortie.
The original design was basically a monoplane variant of the Fury with the new derated Merlin derivative of the R-motor (which itself became the Griffon), which was to be armed with four .303 Brownings in the wings (before an Armaments Ministry review on effective interceptor armament that decided eight guns was necessary, of which I've a copy of some excerpts, they thought the .50 was relatively untested and the Hispano moreso and probably unreliable, but did nearly go with two or four fifties and thought about two Hispanos...then decided eight .303 was just as good as either and a known measure for reliability).

Vincenzo said:

The parasssite fighter of TB-3 was I-4, -5, late I-Z and -16, not R-6 that was not a fighter I was for fighter in soviet designation pre design bureau name, the early I-4 and-5 were not so hard for Fury, the TB-3 it's sure hard to shoot down for Fury and for all other 2 mgs armed fighter.

Fury I and P.7 have near speed, Fury fastest ~10 km/h, ...

now i think we can no later '33 for the late biplane best fighter

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Hello Vincenzo,
I think we did not understanded each other.
The parasite fighter programm in USSR reminded AFAIK expeimental. The mass produced R-6 even if it had some multipurpose capabilities was primary intended to fulfill (for the TB-1, later TB-3) escort missions. Exactly as the Caudron R-11 Caudron R.11, R.12 - escort fighter, or the german Me-110 "Zerstorer" - destroyer by marine questionnable analogy, the havy bombers being the cruisers.

In 1931 I-4 (designed in 1925!) was considered as obsolete and not produced any more. But like I-5 it was an extremly nimble plane, and Fury was not so hard for it at high-G close in tight dogfights at low height. Speed is not not making everything, see Fokker Dr-1, Nie-17, Sopwith Camel success despite Albatros DV, SPAD or SE-5 availability.


But alltogether, let's go for the Fury in 1931, i like it's good-looking steamlined forms.

Regards

sorry i don't know because when you write of escort of TB-3 i thinked a parassite fighter experiments. idk the R-6 twinengined plane, i look some and i don't think it's a good idea. near all old biplane (fighters) are good dogfigters.