Hawker Typhoon Tempest - British WW2 Era Fighter Aircraft
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- An English fighter aircraft of WW2. It was a fairly high speed design, and appeared to be an effective ground attack piece. I don't know much about this craft. Please comment. I took the images from a Japanese book I found about this plane, and thought they would be interesting for aficionados.
In addition to my comment below, the great Luftwaffe pilot Adolf Galland said, in around late 1944, "The most dangerous opponent of the ME262 is the British Hawker Tempest. Heavily armed, rugged, and extremely fast at low level"
I love the Typhoon. My second favourite fighter of all time. So powerful.
They certainly didn't participate in the Battle of Britain in 1940!
Fore-runners to the Tempest, Fury and Sea Fury.
Battle of Britain was over in late 1940.
Tempest arrived no earlier than late 1943 early 1944 - we must call bs on the title although the photos were great.
i love hawker tempest,a beast of power
Looks like a really butch Hurricane. Gorgeous plane. Thanks for sharing.
During the battle of Britain is was appreciated that the Hawker Hurricane and Spitfire complimented each other because with the hurricane you had a stable gun platform aircraft that could take a lot of damage and with the Spit, you had an agile fighter that could outmanoeuvre the enemy. Hawker had been working on a replacement for the Hurricane and had a design that used two different engines with the view that whichever provided the best performance would ultimately be the engine to use. The first engine was the RR Vulture, this aircraft was called the Tornado and the other was the Typhoon using a Napier Sabre engine. However, RR was asked to focus development on the Merlin and Griffon so the Vulture was dropped meaning the Typhoon became the ultimate replacement; however, it was quickly realised the performance of the Typhoon wasn't as good as expected because of the thick wing. Hawker fitted a new laminar flow wing design to a Typhoon fuselage which was designated the Typhoon II, but as the new wing had less room for fuel tanks, Hawker had to lengthen the nose to add an additional fuel tank. Due to these additional changes, this Aircraft was then renamed the Tempest. The typhoon suffered engine reliability and other problems including structural failure of the tail so additional metal plates were fitted to hold the tail on. The first 100 Tempests used modified Typhoon fuselages so also had the metal plates on the tail. The Typhoon entered operational service the year after the Battle of Britain and the Tempest entered service in 1944. The Typhoon and Tempest were both fast at low level so naturally took on the role of ground attack. Later in the war, the Tempest took on the role of Diver Patrol, "Divers" being the RAF name for the V1 bombs. The MK numbers of the Tempest refer to the engines they were to use rather than the evolution which meant that the Mk.V came first and was replaced by the Mk.II which entered service after the war had ended. Although at the end of the war it was evident that Jets were the future, the FAA needed to operate piston fighters for use on carriers so the Tempest Mk.II was modified to be lighter and evolved into the Hawker Sea Fury. As you may tell, I am fascinated by the Hawker lineage from Tornado/Typhoon/Tempest/Fury.
Nice bit of info. Thanks for sharing.
They performed very well with rocket attacks against trains and tanks, very accurate.
Great WWII aircraft indeed. Fighter - bomber and/or rocket launcher for ground attack; solid and tough. Fast too (up to 400 mph). Nice video.
There was a Typhoon Driver who had noted some 50 odd years after the War, that the Typhoon was to his knowledge the only aircraft that if you could not get a " handle " on her you were posted out of your unit. She was no " Piece Of Cake ".
The Hawker Tempest was probably the most formidable low -medium level single engined fighter-bomber of the second world war.
Those lads did a very dangerous job, bless them.
Nice montage. But the Typhoon and Tempest were both far later in the war and were not involved in the Battle of Britain mate. The heavy set wing of the Typhoon made it a failure as a fighter though with its speed it could catch low flying FW190s and it excelled at ground attack. The Tempest was a late war fighter with a thinner wing. Such was its performance that the Luftwaffe ME262 jet pilots thought it their biggest threat. Some even consider it the best low/medium level fighter of the war.
That is correct CM. Neither the Typhoon nor the Tempest were around during the BoB but two, three years later. Still, nice images. Thank you.
The tempest had huge potential as a medium-high altitude fighter: it just needed an engine with a multistage, multi speed supercharger. It was designed to take anyone of five seperate engines, but the only one that saw service with was the Napier Sabre - which only had a single stage supercharger. Hence it was used for missions at or below 20,000 feet. English electric scraped development of a three speed, two stage supercharger in favour of making the existing single stage engine reliable when it brought Napier in 1943. This was a wise decision. Especially with P51s, Griffith engined spits and p47s still being highly relevant against even 109Ks, TA152s right up to the end of the war. But the potential for a 3000hp, multistage supercharged engine on the tempest by say early 1947 was certainly there.
Although very similar the typhoon and tempest were different aircraft
The story I remember best is the pilot who heard two backfires when warming up for takeoff. He was going to shut down, but apart from a fine film of oil on the windscreen, everything seemed normal - so he took off and completed the sortie without further trouble. His fitter checked on landing and found that one of the sleeve drives had broken and a complete set of six cylinders was not providing any power. The remaining 18 were enough!
some folk talk about the what iff's of the battle of Britain - what if the FW 190 was available for the Luftwaffe , but WHAT IF the Tempest ( or even Fury ) was available for the commonwealth forces ?
That's a Tornado at 2.01! Very rare shot, thanks for sharing these mate.
Tornado with a RR Vulture. The Tornado also used a Centaurus radial.
Excellent.
This plane was the master piece of its time. The pilots who were lucky enough to fly it harmlessly, dubed it the Rolls Royce of piston planes.
On the Tempest, the famous RAF pilot Bee Beaumont, who late in the war commanded a Tempest wing said "They can have their Spitfires and Mustangs" as far as pure low/medium altitude performance went1!
@OP You have a bit of everything Hawker made here, except the Hurricane.
Typhoons, Tempest II and Tempest V. Typhoon was introduced in -41 as an interceptor fighter, but with many teething problems that was largely a disaster. End -42 the probles were ironed out, but the Typhoon turned out to be much more formidable as a fighter-bomber than as a pure fighter.
Tempest was a redesigned, refined Typhoon, sleeker, more mavourable and faster. Both fast and heavily armed with four 20 mm cannons.
The Centaurus powered Tempest has got to rank amongst the most outstanding aircraft flown in the European theatre of the war. Blessed with Germanic rugged looks(dare I say that?), American levels of power, who would have thought that it was a British built plane with a British engine - and a radial at that! More's the pity the powers that be did not appreciate its worth before they did, seeing the Centaurus as being too expensive and sophisticated with high maintenance skills needed to service it - or was it those pesky Rolls Royce chaps down the road leaning on the war ministry to buy their Merlins, and Napier's re-vamped engine instead? All history now, I suppose. But, as a kid, way back when, I had a shiny model of the Centaurus Tempest, my heart's delight - it went out on a mission and never came back. I think one of my mates flogged it!
Radial? I think not
@@glyndowning3076 The Tempest I wasn't, the Tempest II was a radial
@@badraven9532 my apologies. I should have known better. Of course Bristol engines were radials. Don't ask why but I was comparing with the Napier. Doh!!
@@glyndowning3076 No need to apologise, the engine situation when the twp planes were designed and immediately after airframe design was a jungle, and its said that at the time there were five possible choices. The choice of a radial with their inherent low altitude power band fitted the aircrafts use well.
Germanic rugged looks and American power. Such bs, looks and is British to the core.
Another problem that bedevilled the Tiffy in the early day was exhaust gas leakage from the manifolds, which then got into the cabin and poisoned the pilot; there were several instances of unexplained loss of control, mainly at lower levels where the pilot wouldn't be using oxo, resulting in 'straight-in' impacts. Eventually the manifolds were redesigned - quite an undertaking for the Sabre engine - and the cab air inlet was repositioned further forward.
My aunt Chris' husband Terry Grey was a Typhoon pilot WWII
Played the Typhoon with RAF 1 Squadron in "European Air War". A bit hard to handle but four 20-mm cannons = deadly news to the Luftwaffe planes.
Brilliant! Thank you….
Nicely put together,they more than a faily high top end.They had the best top end until the late war spits and mustangs were upgraded.It was nice to see a pic of the pilots talking tactics about the V1,most people don't realise they were the only thing that could catch up and kill a V1 without waiting for its fuel to run out.What book did you take these from?
nice piano music I thought this was about an airplane
Great little film. What software did you use to do the rostrum camera effects?
Totally wrong headline for this video. As many will comment, while both aircraft were exceptional in the later stages of WWII neither was in the "Battle Of Britain" in 1940. And don't forget the Sea Fury. Good pictures though.
@freakyflow a typhoon is even rarer to see such a pity there are none flying today
See Pierre Closterman's book "The Big Show" for his description of his first flight in a Typhoon.
He had been flying Spitfires up to then.
Pretty hair raising transition!
He flew Tempests.
Have you read his book?
He had at least ot ne training flight in a Typhoon before he went on to fly Tempests.
Please read the book before you post dumb comments.
My Dad flew this actual plane. He was in 183 squadron - squadron letters HF. He got shot up by two FW 190s coming back from a raid and had to crash land. I don't think it's him in this photo though
The planes at 2.24 have a similarity to the P 47 Jug.
The Tempest came to the party in January 1944, and in relevant numbers towards the end of that year; pretty much one year later after the 'confirmation' of its 'twin', the tank-buster 'Typhoon'. The Tempest was the only British plane that could knock off the sky the German FW190 Doras... If in London, go and see it in the RAF Museum in Hendon - www.rafmuseum.org.uk/london/. Massive, beautiful war-bird.
@dpsherry i was going to say it was a Tempest II till i seen the slats in the wing
Well spotted the Tornado with X engine!
At 2:00...
My late father-in-law flew the actual aircraft at 1:16
@dpsherry
Ahem, no Fury at 0.31 sec. - it's a Tempest II with the Centaury radial engine...
DK-nme
Ahh the beautiful tempest a much underated aircraft by our allies but feared by the luftwaffe to such a degree that the german high command issued a directive to its pilots after heavy losses to it not to engage them.THEY WERE A FORMIDABLE DOGFIGHTER!
If you ask the Germans i would think they will say it was a very effective ground attack aircraft.
Check out the YT channel "Typhoon Legacy", the guy there is restoring a Typhoon back to flying condition.
Brilliant channel and outstanding work being done.
ermmm, they didn't really take a part in the battle of britain (thats asuming the 1940 september ending of the battle, however I know that the end of the battle of britain doesn't really have a clear finsh date as some people place it's finish in may 1941 so the typhoon just about makes it into that estimate).
TEMPEST WAS FASTER THAN MUSTANG,THESE TWO WERE PROBABLY THE BEST FIGHTERS OF WW2,THE GERMAN LATEST VERSION OF FW190 THE TA 152 WITH BIGER PROPELLER AND WIGS WAS PROBABLY A MATCH FOR THEM AND SUPERB IN HIGH ALTITUDES BUT IT CAME TOO LATE AND IN SMALL NUMBERS
Yeah, nah. Griffin engined spits still probably the best fighters. Especially the Mk21 once it’s redesigned wing was sorted. Even the Mk XIV was a better fighter than the P51 and anything the Germans developed by wars end (although above 35000 feet the TA152H was astonishing, but the more common but still rare 152C and also the 109K was matched by the spit). The tempest however had the most potential, because even with modifications to the airframe and wing the spit was probably only ever going to be able to handle about 2700 horsepower, whereas the tempest probably would have been able to handle well over 3000 hp. However the end of the war and jet age made such developments irrelevant.
The Typhoon was a mediocre fighter not a full on failure as it happened it excelled as a ground attack aircraft and at the time this was no bad thing.
Tempest is every rare to see But such a great aircraft ..Much like the P-51 style of Tatics yet better diving speeds ..Germans would dive to try and lose there enemy if they were infront of them ..and in most cases would be there final mistake
Of course not. The Hawker Hurricane did.
They were not around for and during the battle of Brittain.
Typhoon would have, with the right tactics, turned the battle of Britain into a one week slaughter.
Except that the Typhoon didn't enter service until 1 year after the Battle of Britain was finished.
Nonsense!
With the stats on Raf loses and The luftwaffe loses in the Battle of Britain, with the krauts losing over 50% more aircraft than the Raf it was not far off a slaughter.
Without these planes to go under radar with a payload of a Mercedes c220 under each wing and destroy gun inpacements trains tiger tanks bridges D day would have to be far later than June 6 the plane is honered in the museum in caarn in fact the French was glad to see this plane in the sky because the Germans new it was a killer
Won’t add my incompetent question here, leave it to those that know.
609 Sqn for ever...
A bad plane was it....broke togehter,(rear canopy) set in flame by engine. the pilots hated that plane, because of that
The early Typhoons did have structural weakness leading to some losses but that was put right. It was not an easy aircraft to fly owing to its brutish performance and its role, low level ground attack, which was extremely risky., but it was more the role than the aircraft that was unpopular and losses were high. The Tempests and later Fury's were exceptional aircraft in every way. Like many aircraft it took time to perfect and lessons learned were incorporated into improvements.
Comical how foreigners always thing 'English' means Great Britain....
Not all that comical. I know countless British who can't discern between The United Kingdom and Great Britain, or the British Isles come to that.
@JP C Oh wot a big fibber you are! If you can’t count them then you don’t know them! With your attitude who would want to know you?
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Nice video wrong information