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    The Hawker Tempest is a British fighter aircraft that was primarily used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) in the Second World War. The Tempest, originally...
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  • entry into service by 2035. Tempest will replace the Eurofighter Typhoon in RAF service. The RAF's Second World War Hawker Tempest fighter also followed a...
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    the Tempest, which used much thinner wings with a laminar flow airfoil. The first flight of the first Typhoon prototype, P5212, made by Hawker's Chief...
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    was the progenitor of the Hawker Tempest II.  United Kingdom Royal Air Force Data from The Typhoon and Tempest Story, Hawker Aircraft Since 1920 General...
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    operational aircraft to be powered by the Sabre were the Hawker Typhoon and Hawker Tempest; the first aircraft powered by the Sabre was the Napier-Heston...
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  • up tempest in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tempest is a synonym for a storm. The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare. Tempest or The Tempest may...
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    many design similarities to Hawker's preceding Tempest fighter, having originated from a requirement for a "Light Tempest Fighter". The Sea Fury's wings...
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    Sydney Camm (section Tempest)
    of the RAF in the Second World War including the Hawker Hurricane, Hawker Typhoon and Hawker Tempest. "Camm had a one-tracked mind – his aircraft were...
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    engines) Hawker Fury & Sea Fury Hawker Tempest Hawker Tornado Short Shetland Vickers Warwick The Royal Navy Historic Flight operated a Hawker Sea Fury...
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    installation of the Fw 190's radial engine was a direct influence on Hawker Siddeley's Tempest II. On the whole, Allied pilots who flew the Fw 190 found it pleasant...
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  • remaking all elements from new materials. Parts of two other aircraft, a Hawker Tempest and a Typhoon IB, have been acquired by the HTPG for incorporating into...
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    British Hawker Tempest—extremely fast at low altitudes, highly manoeuvrable and heavily armed." Some were destroyed with a tactic known to the Tempest-equipped...
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  • Supermarine Spitfire used the Coffman system as a starter. The Hawker Typhoon and Hawker Tempest also used the Coffman system to start their Napier Sabre engines...
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  • fighter bomber role. In early 1944 the squadron re-equipped with the Hawker Tempest. In the run up to D-Day, it attacked numerous military targets in France...
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  • B11/41 Hawker P.1007 Hawker P.1008 Hawker P.1014 Hawker P.1017 Hawker P.1021 Hawker P.1025 Hawker P.1027 Hawker P.1028 Hawker P.1029 Hawker P.1030 Hawker P...
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    He also spent several months as a Hawker Aircraft experimental test pilot developing the Hawker Typhoon and Tempest, and was responsible for introducing...
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    III (Intruder) Fairey Firefly Gloster Meteor Hawker Hurricane Mk IIC and IV Hawker Tempest Mk V Srs I Hawker Typhoon Mk IB Martin-Baker MB 3—prototype North...
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    era Grumman F6F Hellcat Vought F4U Corsair Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Hawker Typhoon Hawker Tempest Mitsubishi A7M North American P-51 Mustang Related lists List...
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    An earlier use of black and white bands was on the Hawker Typhoon and early production Hawker Tempest Mark Vs. The aircraft had a similar outline when seen...
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  • of Hawker Tempest operators lists the counties and their air force units that have operated the aircraft: Royal Canadian Air Force Only one Hawker Tempest...
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    14,500 victims in the area two days earlier only 1,450 survived. The Hawker Tempest was a development of the Typhoon using the thin wing with an aerofoil...
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    Normandy after D-Day, the squadron remained in ADGB, re-equipping with Hawker Tempest aircraft on anti-V-1 flying bomb duties as part of Operation Diver....
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    napalm in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Napalm. Hawker Tempest WW II testing including Napalm dropping on YouTube...
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  • Gannet Folland Gnat Gloster Meteor Hawker Hunter Hawker Tempest Handley Page Victor Hawker Siddeley Harrier Hawker Siddeley Nimrod Hunting Jet Provost...
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    Ta 152H could be used as a low altitude fighter. A section of four Hawker Tempest Vs of 486 (NZ) Squadron were out on patrol. After attacking a train...
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  • Commander Roland Beamont's personal Hawker Tempest, JN751, was coded "R-B", Wing Commander John Robert Baldwin's personal Hawker Typhoon was coded "J-B". An RAF...
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  • Martlet/Wildcat (FAA) Grumman Hellcat (FAA) Hawker Hurricane (RAF, FAA) Hawker Sea Hurricane (FAA) Hawker Tempest (RAF) Hawker Typhoon (RAF) North American Mustang...
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  • British Hawker Tempest—extremely fast at low altitudes, highly manoeuvrable and heavily armed." Some were destroyed with a tactic known to the Tempest-equipped...
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  • leader, and began flying night sorties against V-1s in single-engined Hawker Tempests and was awarded a Bar to his DFC on 1 September 1944. Berry quickly...
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    beginning of 1947, under Dutt's command, the Tigers converted to the Hawker Tempest. Dutt's group arrive at a London station 8 October 1940 At Prestwick...
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