World of Warbirds on MSN

Hawker Tempest, the Typhoon rebuilt into Britain’s low-altitude assassin of V-1s and late-war fighters

Born from everything Hawker wanted to fix on the Typhoon, the Tempest paired a new thin wing with brutal low-altitude speed to tear into V-1s, airfields, and front-line targets across Europe. This ...
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Why the RAF's last great fighter was doomed

The Hawker Tempest was the RAF's final, brilliant piston-engine fighter—a machine so fast and deadly it could take down both ...