Currently on show at the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight hangar at RAF Coningsby, but usually at Hendon, London, this is the only surviving Hawker Typhoon in existence.
This is such an emotional sight seeing this truly beautiful Typhoon. My grandfather who I never really knew became a pilot after leaving the coal fields of South Wales. He and many others traveled from Scotland to Canada and then they made their way down to Arizona, Falcon fields to carry out his pilots training in 1942/43 He returned back to the UK and started flying reconnaissance missions and then onto Typhoons..... Just wish I could have spent more time with him to hear his stories of his younger life and adventures
My gramp flew tiffie after being shot down twice in hurri...third time was 2nd time in same plane ...he went on to typhoons as his boss reckoned it was safer...he flew missions V tigers in 44...last flew,late feb 45.
Hey Russell that’s sounds amazing. I never had the chance to really speak with my Grandfather as he passed away in 1991 and I was a 21 year old who had only met him twice before he passed away. Hey are you Welsh buy any chance?
My Dad was a mechanic with 39th 400 squadron a reconnaissance unit RCAF worked on Spitfires Typhoons and some Mustangs near the end, with he was still here to ask more.
It's a great honor to have had a grandfather who had piloted the Typhoon, the great and sturdy powerful fighter-bomber on the RAF....sorry for my bad English language...Greetings from Italy
I remember this aircraft at RAF Bicester when it used to be part of the exhibition flight in 1971-2. We had quite a few historic aircraft at Bicester back in the day. As usual, being a young aircraft technician working on these old birds, their rarity was not appreciated at the time. If interested you can download the history of this aircraft from RAF Museum Hendon in PDF format.
+ Chris Davis They were given access to this example to make some 3D scans, which allowed them to fill in missing data for building new wings and some fuselage.
When one sees a fully armed Typhoon from old achieve film its no wonder the German Amy of 1944/5 feared being spotted in the Bocage country of France then being attacked by this fearsomely armed airplane.
I worked with a guy who flew them. He had said that by Normandy most of the kinks had been worked out of the airframe and engine. Al described it as fearsome in a dive as it could easily scare the life out of inexperienced pilots. He recalled that when called in the 40 mm cannon and rockets could really do a lot of damage. He thought that strafing with it was an absolute delight. Apparently if you had a 190 on your tail and you had altitude, the drill was dive away from it at full throttle as the 190 could not match its speed.
The Typhoon was faster than a FW190 in level flight and was used on the south coast of the UK to catch FW190 and other Intruders, as you said in dived like a train. It was armed initially with 12 x .303 which quickly changed to 4 x 20mm auto cannons. It had an armoured cockpit. Due to exhaust gases entering the cockpit pilots wore their face masks at all times and where on oxygen from the moment the engine started. Read a book written by a pilot who flew through D day to entry into Germany. It was a beast 4 x 20 mm cannons and 8 x 60 lbs Rockets ( the equivalent of a cruiser broadside ), lots of pilots and planes losses due to ground attack role. At low level everyone with a gun is firing at you. It was rugged in this role with it’s armoured cockpit. Early fuselage and elevator flutter problems where fixed as was the mighty Sabre engine problems, initial sleeve valve problems where fixed by using Bristol Aircraft Engines manufacturers technology. Rapid Sleeve valve wear in the battle for France after D Day came from operating from dusty makeshift forward airfields. An air filter assembly was devised but until then they swapped out engines at predetermined hours (There was a war on ). The Sabre was notoriously hard to start when cold, in the book I read the engines where started during the night and run to keep them warm and engines had blankets put over them to retain the heat. Do not let anyone tell you their actual effect on the ground looking at figures was limited, revisionist historians should read the book. A reconnaissance mission carried out by two Typhoons in bad weather found a massive German armoured column just about to smash into weakly held US lines. Typhoons squadrons now alerted on their own, no ground support at all smashed the German column and left it a burning wreck. I believe we a talking about 400 vehicles. Anyone thinking different read the book written by a Pilot who was there. “The Day of the Typhoon, the Typhoon developed into the Tempest an even more potent aircraft. When the FW190 came out nothing could touch it but Typhoon” due to its speed at lower altitudes. MkV Spitfires where easy meat for FW190 with many losses. The Spitfire was rapidly developed with a more Powerful Merlin and eventually supplanted by the Griffin but the Typhoon at lower altitudes was the one to take out the Butcher Bird during that period.
@@anthonywilson4873 I believe Eisenhauer specifically mentioned about the enormous contribution of the Typhoons during D-Day in general and specifically their role in smashing the German advance.
@@arniewilliamson1767 Yes there was a report about the Normandy campaign written by Eisenhower. He specifically mentioned the ground attack Typhoons. Read it many years ago!
That's why the Germans attacked the Americans in the Ardenne Forest (Battle of the Bulge) when they did! Poor weather and bad Vis grounded the 'cab rank' Tiffies so, Gerry took a gamble which nearly paid off. ...... Weather improved....game over.....😅
Thankfully it will no longer be the sole survivor, there were already quite a sum of bits and bobs of other Typhoons. However now there are currently several Typhoons being reconstructed out of those remaining pieces. Said Typhoons will also be airworthy!
@@casual_boredom7195 ;- Chalk & Cheese. The Napier Sabre was severely problematic even when there were mountains of spares, knowledgable technicians and factory support, which is exactly why they were basically all scrapped at wars end. The chances of the UK CAA agreeing to allow this engine back into the air are small. Of course, it may be possible under a less strict administration.
The only surviving Hawker Typhoon for now...there are a few (both Typhoons and Tempests) in the wings...and a couple are planned to take to the skies...
Quick note that Pierre Closterman's two books on flying Typhoons c.43- til the en of the war are really good reads, and poignant too with the deaths of both friends and indeed one particular German pilot.
Concur completely! Whereas I would love to see a Typhoon in the air, the risk is far too great for such a rare species, especially with such a temperamental engine as the Sabre. My father was a qualified fitter on the Sabre and he said it was a beautiful piece of engineering but not suited to operational usage as it needed a LOT of cosseting and tuning to make it run sweetly; he also said a plug change (a regular feature - it was a well known oil burner/slinger!) was a nightmare with 24 cylinders each with 2 plugs, many awkward to reach when the engine was mounted in the airframe.
@@concise707 The man must've had the patience of Job & near-unrivalled mechanical aptitude. 48 Spark plugs aside, one should mention the two crankshafts, 4 (hollow & internally shafted) gear-driven sleeve-valve drive shafts coupled to 24 gear-driven eccentric bellcranks coupled in turn to 24 sleeve valves, 24 siamesed exhaust ports directed into 12 exhaust stubs, gear-driven coolant, main oil, fuel, and supercharger oil pumps, gear-driven vacuum pumps, gear-driven magnetos, distributors, air pump, generator, hydraulics, and twin-intake clutched supercharger, multiple airscrew compound reduction gears, all of which are tied together in what was arguably the most complex design ever afforded to a reciprocating aircraft engine. Other than that, I don't foresee any major issues ;)
@@raynus1160 Clearly you have a fascination for this powerplant! I'm not aware of all the intricacies you describe above, but I do recall him saying that if the engine wasn't set up 'just right' one bank of cylinders would end up 'driving' the other and that would result in gearbox or crankshaft failures. Similar problems beset the other UK 24 cyl engine - the RR Vulture - not that he was "Q'ed" on those.
@@concise707 Guilty as charged. I'm quite fascinated by the engineering involved with big ~3000hp recip aero engines - they represent the last of the lot before turbines made them obsolete. BMW 803, Pratt R-4360, Jumo 222E. Lycoming tested a 5000hp 36 cylinder radial (XR-7755-3), but it was never fitted to an airframe. I like seeing where the limits of existing technology have taken us (don't get me started on big steam locomotives). Here's a couple of interesting cutaways of the Sabre: i.pinimg.com/originals/b7/04/3a/b7043a077c0ede6b1e92d3f0fd431df9.png aviationshoppe.com/sabre-ii-sleeve-valve-engine-p-256.html oldmachinepress.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/napier-sabre-ii-cutaway.jpg - Cheers
Thanks to the Americans was provided to them as wartime test aircraft and thank god they preserved it and very generously let the RAF Museum have it, as the RAF very quickly disposed of all of theirs after the war which were all scrapped. Hence it is currently the only complete example in the world and well travelled has been on loan to the Canadians for a period who obviously flew a lot of them. Hopefully the flying project will succeed and one day we will see one in the air, but the Napier Sabre is a beast to get and then keep running - fingers crossed.
If this aircraft ever flies hope they have an engine with improved reliability over the original. Also that they have strengthened the rear fuselage, as early Typhoons had a nasty habit of tails falling off.
Mn 235 is not an early model Typhoon and would have been fitted with reinforcements in the rear fuselage. Nor is it one of the last models which had similar problems caused by uneven airflow induced by the undercarriage faring's being pulled into the slipstream. Regardless, a restored one of a kind aircraft such as this one would never be flown at the maximum speeds needed to cause these failures.
@@tempestmkiv They never fully fixed the issue in the rear fuselage, this is why they moved onto the tempest which is pretty much a complete rebuild of the typhoon.
@@calumknight9178 That's just one of the many reasons that they moved on to the Tempest but the main reason was in fitting it with a laminar flow wing for better performance at higher altitude's.
People have been championing this restoration for some time, but what do we get from you when they wheel the big beast out of the hangar? Snidey references to problems with early models, that most already know about, and despite them, it still made an enormous contribution to the development of ground attack. Can't you just celebrate the restoration of an amazing WW2 aircraft, despite its faults? Or are you called 'Smallpiece', for a reason..............?
@@FiveCentsPlease - Wow - this is like a dream come true. I literally never thought I would live to see that happen - I wish somebody would restore a Westland Whirlwind....
@@jimstanga6390 There is a Westland Whirlwind project, but static only to my knowledge. They are searching for missing drawings and exploring known crash locations and fire dumps for parts. Plus I think the only surviving RR Peregrine engines are badly damaged crash recoveries that are with the Rolls Royce Heritage Trust. So the project needs engines.
@@martinhambleton5076 ;- It's owned by the RAFM and will always remain static - as they don't fly their a/c, it's also unique, and in any case, the problematic engine would be unlikely to be accepted as airworthy in the UK.
Engine leaked fuel into the cockpit and tail had a tendency to fall off.....no way in hell they would get the all clear. That is why they ditched these as soon as the tempest became available (which started out as a typhoon remodel to fix all the previous issues)
This is real, it's usually in the RAF Museum, Hendon, Greater London. This film was taken just after she returned from a tour of Canada, and in September 2019 I was involved in moving her from Coningsby back to Hendon.
Shouldn't keep a bird in a cage, or clip their wings.... I would have paid anything to see Hamilton Canada's Lancaster fly with the British RAF Lancaster in England it must have been a hell of a site, I'm amazed the Canadians flew it to England,all old war birds should fly,if possible.... Hawker that is no substitute...
I wish that there was one of these flying, it was such an important aircraft in the Normandy campaign, iconic really. I don't that it would be possible to get one airworthy with the Sabre engine, although a prototype did fly with a Griffon, so it maybe possible......
+ @guaporeturns9472 It does not, and this is the only intact survivor. There are several (three I think) Tempest/Typhoon projects that are planning to fly, but they are many years from complete.
That's really not a plane they want to start up and fly.....notorius for leaking fuel into the cockpit and the tail had a tendency to fall off. There is a reason they ditched these for the tempests as soon as they could
@tecdessus they never rectified the tail falling off, they reinforced it but never fully fixed the issue (can't remember the exact reasoning behind it but i think it was something to do with buffeting of some sort the faster it went caused a structural failure of the tail, they had this issue right up until it was retired). One of the reasons the typhoon was mostly used in the ground attack role that made it famous was the many issues it had mainly with its napier engine. Btw that engine was the cause of Valentine Bakers death (of Martin Baker) when one of them failed on takeoff of the MB.3 prototype fighter, his death caused James Martin his partner to devote the rest of his life into crew safety hence the martin baker ejection seats.
This is such an emotional sight seeing this truly beautiful Typhoon. My grandfather who I never really knew became a pilot after leaving the coal fields of South Wales. He and many others traveled from Scotland to Canada and then they made their way down to Arizona, Falcon fields to carry out his pilots training in 1942/43 He returned back to the UK and started flying reconnaissance missions and then onto Typhoons..... Just wish I could have spent more time with him to hear his stories of his younger life and adventures
My gramp flew tiffie after being shot down twice in hurri...third time was 2nd time in same plane ...he went on to typhoons as his boss reckoned it was safer...he flew missions V tigers in 44...last flew,late feb 45.
Hey Russell that’s sounds amazing. I never had the chance to really speak with my Grandfather as he passed away in 1991 and I was a 21 year old who had only met him twice before he passed away. Hey are you Welsh buy any chance?
My Dad was a mechanic with 39th 400 squadron a reconnaissance unit RCAF worked on Spitfires Typhoons and some Mustangs near the end, with he was still here to ask more.
It's a great honor to have had a grandfather who had piloted the Typhoon, the great and sturdy powerful fighter-bomber on the RAF....sorry for my bad English language...Greetings from Italy
@@carlobo5647 🙏🏽
Now that is a gorgeous plane!
Absolutely awesome ,My late father was ground crew on 174 & 175 squadrons & kept a notebook from June 1944 to late 1945 .Fascinating reading
what an absolute treat - now to hear the mighty Napier Sabre roar into life!!!
I love the typhoon and the tempest… truly beautiful designs.
She looks an absolute BRUTE ! great aeroplane thank you.
OMG She’s beautiful !!!
I remember this aircraft at RAF Bicester when it used to be part of the exhibition flight in 1971-2. We had quite a few historic aircraft at Bicester back in the day. As usual, being a young aircraft technician working on these old birds, their rarity was not appreciated at the time. If interested you can download the history of this aircraft from RAF Museum Hendon in PDF format.
Absolutely Gorgeous!
OMG i didn't know there were any left!! Been watching that fella in Canada building one from scratch!!
+ Chris Davis They were given access to this example to make some 3D scans, which allowed them to fill in missing data for building new wings and some fuselage.
@@FiveCentsPlease I see! Rgr that.. Being an absolute must!!
When one sees a fully armed Typhoon from old achieve film its no wonder the German Amy of 1944/5 feared being spotted in the Bocage country of France then being attacked by this fearsomely armed airplane.
Love these beasts.
I worked with a guy who flew them. He had said that by Normandy most of the kinks had been worked out of the airframe and engine. Al described it as fearsome in a dive as it could easily scare the life out of inexperienced pilots. He recalled that when called in the 40 mm cannon and rockets could really do a lot of damage. He thought that strafing with it was an absolute delight.
Apparently if you had a 190 on your tail and you had altitude, the drill was dive away from it at full throttle as the 190 could not match its speed.
The Typhoon was faster than a FW190 in level flight and was used on the south coast of the UK to catch FW190 and other Intruders, as you said in dived like a train. It was armed initially with 12 x .303 which quickly changed to 4 x 20mm auto cannons. It had an armoured cockpit. Due to exhaust gases entering the cockpit pilots wore their face masks at all times and where on oxygen from the moment the engine started. Read a book written by a pilot who flew through D day to entry into Germany. It was a beast 4 x 20 mm cannons and 8 x 60 lbs Rockets ( the equivalent of a cruiser broadside ), lots of pilots and planes losses due to ground attack role. At low level everyone with a gun is firing at you. It was rugged in this role with it’s armoured cockpit. Early fuselage and elevator flutter problems where fixed as was the mighty Sabre engine problems, initial sleeve valve problems where fixed by using Bristol Aircraft Engines manufacturers technology. Rapid Sleeve valve wear in the battle for France after D Day came from operating from dusty makeshift forward airfields. An air filter assembly was devised but until then they swapped out engines at predetermined hours (There was a war on ). The Sabre was notoriously hard to start when cold, in the book I read the engines where started during the night and run to keep them warm and engines had blankets put over them to retain the heat. Do not let anyone tell you their actual effect on the ground looking at figures was limited, revisionist historians should read the book. A reconnaissance mission carried out by two Typhoons in bad weather found a massive German armoured column just about to smash into weakly held US lines. Typhoons squadrons now alerted on their own, no ground support at all smashed the German column and left it a burning wreck. I believe we a talking about 400 vehicles. Anyone thinking different read the book written by a Pilot who was there. “The Day of the Typhoon, the Typhoon developed into the Tempest an even more potent aircraft. When the FW190 came out nothing could touch it but Typhoon” due to its speed at lower altitudes. MkV Spitfires where easy meat for FW190 with many losses. The Spitfire was rapidly developed with a more Powerful Merlin and eventually supplanted by the Griffin but the Typhoon at lower altitudes was the one to take out the Butcher Bird during that period.
@@anthonywilson4873 I believe Eisenhauer specifically mentioned about the enormous contribution of the Typhoons during D-Day in general and specifically their role in smashing the German advance.
@@arniewilliamson1767 Yes there was a report about the Normandy campaign written by Eisenhower. He specifically mentioned the ground attack Typhoons. Read it many years ago!
That's why the Germans attacked the Americans in the Ardenne Forest (Battle of the Bulge) when they did! Poor weather and bad Vis grounded the 'cab rank' Tiffies so, Gerry took a gamble which nearly paid off. ...... Weather improved....game over.....😅
A beautiful looking aircraft .
Engine run, please!
Amazing aircraft, it even looks predatorial on the ground.
Awesome ❤
Thankfully it will no longer be the sole survivor, there were already quite a sum of bits and bobs of other Typhoons. However now there are currently several Typhoons being reconstructed out of those remaining pieces. Said Typhoons will also be airworthy!
If they can get authority to fly using the Napier Sabre.
@@EricIrl Well I don't see why not, there are plenty of rare planes with rare engines and they're all cleared to fly just fine.
@@casual_boredom7195 ;- Chalk & Cheese. The Napier Sabre was severely problematic even when there were mountains of spares, knowledgable technicians and factory support, which is exactly why they were basically all scrapped at wars end. The chances of the UK CAA agreeing to allow this engine back into the air are small. Of course, it may be possible under a less strict administration.
@@EricIrl ;- Exactly.
@@HeavensGremlin Fair enough I'd suppose.
WOW!
superb plane 👍
Would LOVE to hear it run!
Don't.
Break.
It.
The only surviving Hawker Typhoon for now...there are a few (both Typhoons and Tempests) in the wings...and a couple are planned to take to the skies...
Quick note that Pierre Closterman's two books on flying Typhoons c.43- til the en of the war are really good reads, and poignant too with the deaths of both friends and indeed one particular German pilot.
I would settle for a running, taxi-capable Tiffy.
Please don't fly it...too troublesome. Too rare.
Concur completely! Whereas I would love to see a Typhoon in the air, the risk is far too great for such a rare species, especially with such a temperamental engine as the Sabre. My father was a qualified fitter on the Sabre and he said it was a beautiful piece of engineering but not suited to operational usage as it needed a LOT of cosseting and tuning to make it run sweetly; he also said a plug change (a regular feature - it was a well known oil burner/slinger!) was a nightmare with 24 cylinders each with 2 plugs, many awkward to reach when the engine was mounted in the airframe.
@@concise707
The man must've had the patience of Job & near-unrivalled mechanical aptitude.
48 Spark plugs aside, one should mention the two crankshafts, 4 (hollow & internally shafted) gear-driven sleeve-valve drive shafts coupled to 24 gear-driven eccentric bellcranks coupled in turn to 24 sleeve valves, 24 siamesed exhaust ports directed into 12 exhaust stubs, gear-driven coolant, main oil, fuel, and supercharger oil pumps, gear-driven vacuum pumps, gear-driven magnetos, distributors, air pump, generator, hydraulics, and twin-intake clutched supercharger, multiple airscrew compound reduction gears, all of which are tied together in what was arguably the most complex design ever afforded to a reciprocating aircraft engine.
Other than that, I don't foresee any major issues ;)
@@raynus1160 Clearly you have a fascination for this powerplant! I'm not aware of all the intricacies you describe above, but I do recall him saying that if the engine wasn't set up 'just right' one bank of cylinders would end up 'driving' the other and that would result in gearbox or crankshaft failures. Similar problems beset the other UK 24 cyl engine - the RR Vulture - not that he was "Q'ed" on those.
@@concise707
Guilty as charged. I'm quite fascinated by the engineering involved with big ~3000hp recip aero engines - they represent the last of the lot before turbines made them obsolete. BMW 803, Pratt R-4360, Jumo 222E. Lycoming tested a 5000hp 36 cylinder radial (XR-7755-3), but it was never fitted to an airframe. I like seeing where the limits of existing technology have taken us (don't get me started on big steam locomotives).
Here's a couple of interesting cutaways of the Sabre:
i.pinimg.com/originals/b7/04/3a/b7043a077c0ede6b1e92d3f0fd431df9.png
aviationshoppe.com/sabre-ii-sleeve-valve-engine-p-256.html
oldmachinepress.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/napier-sabre-ii-cutaway.jpg
- Cheers
@@raynus1160 thanks for the link . Excellent. Imagine waking up one day and thinking, today I'm going to design the sabre engine 😂
It's a shame since the only other Hawker Typhoon i've ever found was one rusting/wrecked in a field.
Wow,
What about the one in Caen, at the D-day memorial?
That's a replica
Another Typhoon is being completely rebuilt from scratch. This is the channel:
th-cam.com/users/TyphoonLegacyCoLtdvideos
En honor al As Baron Jean Salvys Longchamp.
Excelente dsd San Luis, Argentina 🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷.
dont think any one has a running napier sabre . early versions unreliable . hope they have the last version
How special it’ll be to have a Sabre run again. Sadly it won’t be this one!
+@brycenew Three projects are working on Sabres, rare as they are. But it will probably be a while before work begins on the engines.
The firet fer Tempests used Typhoon fuselage
I had no idea they had one ...I know there is a hawker tempest here in uk that is going to fly or is flying now
Thanks to the Americans was provided to them as wartime test aircraft and thank god they preserved it and very generously let the RAF Museum have it, as the RAF very quickly disposed of all of theirs after the war which were all scrapped. Hence it is currently the only complete example in the world and well travelled has been on loan to the Canadians for a period who obviously flew a lot of them. Hopefully the flying project will succeed and one day we will see one in the air, but the Napier Sabre is a beast to get and then keep running - fingers crossed.
@@johnholt9399 I know there is a hawker tempest that is going to be flying in the UK my dad flys warbirds and one of his friends has one
There is a guy in Comox, BC, Canada who is BUILDING an AIRWORTHY Typhoon FROM SCRATCH. You can follow him HERE: www.youtube.com/@TyphoonLegacyCoLtd
The plane that decimated, the German Panzer's at the battle of the bulge...literally turned the tide
If this aircraft ever flies hope they have an engine with improved reliability over the original. Also that they have strengthened the rear fuselage, as early Typhoons had a nasty habit of tails falling off.
Mn 235 is not an early model Typhoon and would have been fitted with reinforcements in the rear fuselage. Nor is it one of the last models which had similar problems caused by uneven airflow induced by the undercarriage faring's being pulled into the slipstream. Regardless, a restored one of a kind aircraft such as this one would never be flown at the maximum speeds needed to cause these failures.
@@tempestmkiv They never fully fixed the issue in the rear fuselage, this is why they moved onto the tempest which is pretty much a complete rebuild of the typhoon.
@@calumknight9178 That's just one of the many reasons that they moved on to the Tempest but the main reason was in fitting it with a laminar flow wing for better performance at higher altitude's.
People have been championing this restoration for some time, but what do we get from you when they wheel the big beast out of the hangar? Snidey references to problems with early models, that most already know about, and despite them, it still made an enormous contribution to the development of ground attack. Can't you just celebrate the restoration of an amazing WW2 aircraft, despite its faults? Or are you called 'Smallpiece', for a reason..............?
I had no idea that there were any still in existence....
+Jim Stanga There are a couple more in long-term rebuild with the eventual goal of flying. Rising from the dead.
@@FiveCentsPlease - Wow - this is like a dream come true. I literally never thought I would live to see that happen - I wish somebody would restore a Westland Whirlwind....
@@jimstanga6390 There is a Westland Whirlwind project, but static only to my knowledge. They are searching for missing drawings and exploring known crash locations and fire dumps for parts. Plus I think the only surviving RR Peregrine engines are badly damaged crash recoveries that are with the Rolls Royce Heritage Trust. So the project needs engines.
How about restoring an airworthy Hawker Tempest too?
There are a few projects on the go, Two with Kermit weeks in the US which are a Mk II and a Mk V.
Great! I didn’t know that. Thanks for sharing.
@@spreadeagled5654 There's a MkII in the UK getting close to air worthy condition but with the wrong engine.
@@spreadeagled5654 if you look on TH-cam Mr Weeks publishes all manner of cool aviation videos
Great news! Thanks for that..
My goodness!
When will that beautiful old war bird take to the sky?
Never.
@@HeavensGremlin Oh, Why not.
@@martinhambleton5076 ;- It's owned by the RAFM and will always remain static - as they don't fly their a/c, it's also unique, and in any case, the problematic engine would be unlikely to be accepted as airworthy in the UK.
@@HeavensGremlin
I agree.
One hiccup & the world's sole surviving Typhoon will end up bent beyond recognition.
Engine leaked fuel into the cockpit and tail had a tendency to fall off.....no way in hell they would get the all clear. That is why they ditched these as soon as the tempest became available (which started out as a typhoon remodel to fix all the previous issues)
Is this a real Typhoon ???? I was under the assumption that only one example existed and that's in a museum mind you a replica is OK too
This is real, it's usually in the RAF Museum, Hendon, Greater London. This film was taken just after she returned from a tour of Canada, and in September 2019 I was involved in moving her from Coningsby back to Hendon.
Would it be sacrilegious to simply Merlin a priceless airframe for the sake of preservation!!?
Ps full left rudder!!
Shouldn't keep a bird in a cage, or clip their wings.... I would have paid anything to see Hamilton Canada's Lancaster fly with the British RAF Lancaster in England it must have been a hell of a site, I'm amazed the Canadians flew it to England,all old war birds should fly,if possible....
Hawker that is no substitute...
I wish that there was one of these flying, it was such an important aircraft in the Normandy campaign, iconic really. I don't that it would be possible to get one airworthy with the Sabre engine, although a prototype did fly with a Griffon, so it maybe possible......
One is being restored to flight here.....RB396.
@@stevebroughton4787 There are two being restored to fly, and Kermit Weeks is also building a Napier-powered Tempest.
Does it Fly ?
Sadly, no.
@@greva2904 maybe someday hopefully
Does it fly?
+ @guaporeturns9472 It does not, and this is the only intact survivor. There are several (three I think) Tempest/Typhoon projects that are planning to fly, but they are many years from complete.
@@FiveCentsPlease Love the Tempest and Typhoon , Hopefully we’ll see more eventually. Thanks
Considering its history, why would anyone attempt to use or even justify flying them on display. Blue skies strong tail and engine guys.
I prefer the modern Typhoon
That's really not a plane they want to start up and fly.....notorius for leaking fuel into the cockpit and the tail had a tendency to fall off. There is a reason they ditched these for the tempests as soon as they could
@tecdessus they never rectified the tail falling off, they reinforced it but never fully fixed the issue (can't remember the exact reasoning behind it but i think it was something to do with buffeting of some sort the faster it went caused a structural failure of the tail, they had this issue right up until it was retired). One of the reasons the typhoon was mostly used in the ground attack role that made it famous was the many issues it had mainly with its napier engine. Btw that engine was the cause of Valentine Bakers death (of Martin Baker) when one of them failed on takeoff of the MB.3 prototype fighter, his death caused James Martin his partner to devote the rest of his life into crew safety hence the martin baker ejection seats.