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Part One: Hawker Tempest II MW376 Restoration Project
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ม.ค. 2021
- A lifelong aviation enthusiast, KF Aerospace founder and CEO Barry Lapointe is on a mission to restore a WWII-era Hawker Tempest II and get it back in the air.
In part one we meet Barry, the Tempest and the dedicated KF crew working to bring this classic aircraft back to life.
Learn more at: kfcentre.ca/
It’s not about the aeroplane but the people who built and designed it. Hats off to the engineers with passion.
Just watched this. It makes me smile that you guys are doing this and are just so passionate about restoring an iconic British aircraft. Keep up the good work guys!
What an amazing crew
How exciting it would be to work on this project
Thanks for the excellent video and wonderful insight
Absolute legends. Well done.
Fab to see another piece of history returning to the sky. Well done.
Maybe my favourite allied aircraft of ww2
The one plane me 262 pilots feared, great to see this bird being rebuilt ready to fly again.
As an engineer in a high tech company, i am totaly amazed of your skills. I also follow the Thyphoon projects currently ongoing. Pls continue to make video's of your progress. No sleeve-valve engine? I have a Napier Sabre II poster in my office, want to have a Centaurus beside it... Keep up the good work! greetings from the Netherlands
Given how many parts were "job shopped" out to small, practically Mom & Pop sized builders, I have to believe there are drawings/blueprints (even prototypes) of components in attics or old trunks scattered around the UK. Finding them would be a treasure hunt of immense historical value.
Stunning. At last we'll see one flying. I can remember when they were brought back in crates a very long time ago.
They're not that far from the Typhoon restoration project. I hope they're talking to each other. There will likely be similarities (and complete carry-overs) between the 2 types, even if the motors are different configurationsl air-cooled radial vs water-cooled "H".
How I both envy and admire this whole team, so well done everyone.
All power to you guy, to see a Tempest or Typhoon flying is a lifelong ambition
I remember the artwork on the GUILLOW balsa wood kit
Hard to believe when i was a kid i loved the spitfire And never knew of the Tempest ..Into my 30's I always loved WW2 And the aicraft So i started playing a large Online WW2 air combat game Called Fighter ace ...There i see the Tempest And Joined a clan that flew mostly the Tempest Mk V And the Lancaster ..Fell in love with it ...Thank you KF As i live just outside of your hamilton building I Can't wait to see The Mk II on the wing of the lancaster ....Hard to think that even when the war was over They still built the Tempest as per contract And was scraping the planes outside the factory ....
I was watching it when it was at pioneer aerospace Ardmore NZ. Very sad ending to the owners but it has found an awesome new owner. I will be following you guys with interest. Cheers from New Zealand.
Hi Mark, how did this aircraft end up in New Zealand. Hi from Kaiwaka.
@@peterswatton7400 The guy who had an RTD bottling business in Papakura and who had another classic aircraft was having the Tempest worked on at Ardmore until he and his wife were both killed in a flying accident near Raglan l think.
@@markcorboy8528 Thanks Mark, I remember the accident.
Michael Marshall's attitude here is brilliant. Everyone else being interviewed seems to be giving it some sort of corporate sales pitch, but he shows true love for the old warbird herself.
More videos with Michael please!
Very special project, am sending my best wishes to this team
Great video guys!
Look forward to seeing more of this. Don´t care what engine you put in it as long as it ends up flying.
I believe that Kermit Weeks has a Tempest as well, are these guys in contact with Kermit for comparisons and possible templates for making their own parts? It's seems implausible that they wouldn't be.
Kermit has a 2 and a 5. The guy he had working on them retired before Covid. They're just sitting at the back of the list of projects.
Very nice ... Can't wait to hear a start up .. Bought a set of blue prints for the Hawker Tempest V sexy aircraft they are...
Awesome !
A wonderful project, the Tempest II is gorgeous and it will be a joy to see one flying. I felt some sadness recognising push rods on the front of the engine cylinders but it is understandable, the related Sea Furys still flying largely went the same way.
Subscribed - really want to see this fantastic old warbird fly again!
Tempest 2 didn't fly in WW2 so isn't a war bird.
Wow what a fantastic job you are doing
Utter utter respect for guys and company's that can do this work what a thrill for you all to see it roar into the sky again,what a noise!!
The Tempest and Typhoon had one 'endearing feature' in common; both of them would give the pilot Carbon Monoxide poisoning because of exhaust gases leaking into the cockpit. A number of pilots are known to have been hospitalised because of it, and it is assumed that some died from inhalation of the fumes. This meant that the pilot had to be on Oxygen whilst flying.
My deepest respect to those who want to keep a dream of a machine alive!!!
Amazing restoration.
Fabulous but please no substitute engines .Some one said let’s hope the other people restoring one of these TEMPEST 2s, Kermit Weeks, Nick Grace,
are helping and cooperating. Yes let’s hope!
Not forgetting the Canadian Typhoon (Sabre ) - Ian . He is making a new airframe.
Last one of these I saw was at AutoKraft Brooklands in the early nineties.
Where owner Bryan Angliss had brought two back from India sitting amongst his magnificent historic motorcycle collection.
I am wondering if this was one of them , I think Nick Grace has the other.
This is great news, I'm looking forward to tracking the progress.
My best wishes for you. You work for history, it's a great job.
I can't believe this!!! A true miracle/pinnacle of UK aeronatical piston engined fighteraircraft!! OMG! Can't wait!! (& I am an avid Hawker Hurricane fan)
Cannot wait to see this Tempest flying. I imagine it is a more practical
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Cant wait to see ,this fly again .
Rare and wonderful: The Sabre engine was very complex. What a restoration project! My uncle flew the Typhoon (famously unreliable). Tempest was much better. He did a lot of Flak suppression missions. He was killed on an anti-V1 mission. The engine was so powerful they trialled it for glider-tow, which gave him a twitch!
It is interesting what you say about your uncle, my uncle was Sq Ld with 3 Squadron during late '44 out of a grass field in Hythe Kent, he was sadly killed attacking a mobile V2 site in the Hague in September that year, the whole lot went up under him.
But the Tempest was the fastest piston engined aircraft in WW11 and a big improvement on the Typhoon, it would be nice to see this magnificent aircraft in the sky again.
It’s a Bristol Centaurus in a II but it looks like they’ve gone for an alternate powerplant for this rebuild.
Worth talking to the RAF museum Cosford. They have got one there, they could advise on parts, for manufacturing.
Wow! Just festering, bloody WOW!
Splendid ! Can't wait to see her completed ! Thank you for this project and sharing it trough you tube !
Well done guys, total respect to you!
In my perspective, the Tempest II is the most beautiful aircraft ever made (I like other aircraft of the WWII era as well, from both sides). But, even if restored to absolute perfection to the last screw, an engine other than a Centaurus would be an action of total disrespect to this marvel of aviation history
I don't know if it is practical to fit a Centaurus, spares are rare and the engines are very old; safety must come first.
The only plane that comes close to this is its cousin, the Sea Fury. The piston fighter that shot a MiG down...
I wonder if anything is left of the Centaurus engines that came with Cuba's Sea Furies.
@@abchaplin I hope so bro
Well there are several of the Baghdad Furys flying which means some spares must be around.
A lovely creature!
I still have my Dinky Toy Tempest I bought when I was small a little boy.
I'll be cursed for saying this is looking better than the howlin wicca mouth of death that we know the Tempest/Typhoon for. But this radial version are looking like serious business that must be the best version of the whole range.
Great work, please please get the Centaurus, the engine is the heart of the aircraft, the sound of the aircraft, the fact it was so special and so fast was the Centaurus, please reassess your timeline for the correct engine.
The Centarurus was the voice of the Tempest. I would love to hear one in real life.
@@abchaplin Yes, a nice low growl in the Sea Fury as she goes vertical! I watched that at Hamilton NZ Easter 1995.
Too unreliable. One in a Sea Fury recently went down.
@@bernardthefourth, could you post a link?
@@abchaplin Google sea fury crash. Recent news.
Great job guys! Honoured to have worked with some of you
did you get fired?
@@CJB- lol no I worked there long ago with some of the people in the video. I left to work on helicopters
@@danielrunge7294 Way beyond me my friend.🙂
Im sure there's a running Centaurus at the Queensland Air Museum in Caloundra, Australia.
fantastic work 1
Often wondered if we got the tempest back from Iraq, when I was there in 04, there was a partially containerised one on our camp
Very exciting!
Awesome job but were is the Bristol Centaurus engine that would be Awesome.
Pratt and Whitney R-2800 due to the scarcity of Bristol Centaurus engines.
Very nice work . Original power plant would have been a Bristol Pegasus ?
A Bristol Centaurus originally
Hi, hold faith, get this bird in the sky, where she belongs.....Eamonn (South West Ireland)
Early jets had poor acceleration so this type continued as the Sea Fury.
Has it flown yet..?
Is the Engine the Bristol Centaurus?
Was it completed in 2022?
Do you really ignore that Kermit Weeks has two airframes ? Are y'all not on speaking terms ? I wonder that he doesn't pay y'all to restore his. What engine will you run with on the Tempest ?
What engine is installed? Doesn't even vaguely look like a Bristol Centaurus.
Both are twin-row, 18-cylinder, air-cooled radial aircraft engines. Why do you say that they don't even vaguely look alike?
Were is it now 2024 ?
Guys, fabulous work, but your really not doing yourselves or the aircraft any favours by not finding and fitting a centaurus.
What about the Tempest V?
Tempest II never saw action
Im 39......but to me the brutest single seat world war 2 fighter will always stay the tempest or sea fury....
Not any other country had the idea of building a 2 v12 engine so it became a 24 h cilinder engine
When this thing flew over europe people must have realised
That thing is gonna wreak havok over germany...
Mr Lonewolf BULLSHIT !!! RR had a 2 V12 engine, Allison had a 2 V12 engine and Even Packard had a 2 v12 engine long before the others !! ! Know the facts !!!
Aren t there any left h24 engines on the bottom of the ocean????
An unimportant aircraft, most were cancelled as the jet age was beginning.
More data & less corny music would be good. Engine size, power etc. MkII with centauras engine it ?
Great Job on the plane though
Surely that's a Sea Fury..
the Sea Fury is a smaller version of the Tempest II, they're very similar
@@blockheadgreen_ my confusion here is that unless I'm mistaken, i see a24cyl Bristol Centaurus radial engine, not an inline Napier-Sabre..
@@World-Superbike The Tempest Mk II was indeed fitted with the Centaurus engine! Curiously it came after the Sabre-engined Mk V, though not as curious as the fact there were even Sabre powered Furies...
All radials have an odd number of cylinders in each row so you can have a two row 14 cylinder (7 X 2) engine but not a 16, 20 etc.
The Tempest II led to the Sea Fury, Same stable (Hawker).
What ! An American engine, did some one say ? ?)
Pratt and Whitney R-2800 due to the scarcity of Bristol Centaurus engines.
Yes, generally speaking, we havent always been a piss poor country like we are now, bowing and scraping to the twats in the EU who incidently were all liberated with a lot of help from the UK and of course many other countries. Sorry for the rant !. Beautiful aeroplane , look forward to when it flies again .
How the hell do you conflate brexit with rebuilding an aeroplane? You are really a confused soul, what part did you play in the war?
@@neilmchardy9061 I was trying to put across the fact that we used to build good stuff , ie , aeroplanes, which helped liberate Europe, which the EU has conveniently forgotten. Im not a confused soul at all. What part did I play in the war ?, what sort of question is that ....
Keep taking the tablets.
Making parts from old photos when you don't have drawings or an original part to use as a pattern sounds risky to me. You'd probably end up with something that works but is unlikely to be authentic. It seems a shame, given how rare these aircraft are, to end up, after a lot of work and hard cash, with something that is essentially a pastiche. Kermit Weeks has a Tempest II and there may be others that could provide help - I hope you are working with them and not doing this alone. Somebody out there might even have a spare Centaurus engine - if a thing's worth doing it's worth doing well.
Hmmmmmm and an American engine ????