The Hawker Typhoon in beast mode - the Hawker Tempest #warbirds #ww2 #ww2history #hawker #tempest | Daniel J Wheatcroft

6 May 1944, RAF Hucclecote Hawker Tempest Mark Vs, new and shiny, after leaving the Gloster Aircraft Company production line. #WW2 #HISTORY | British & Commonwealth Forces

69K views · 1.6K reactions | Hawker Tempest, powered by the Napier Sabre - Tempest and Typhoon pilots needed to use oxygen even during ground operations due to the CO emissions from the H24 behemoth - at The Royal Air Force Museum London #ww2 #ww2history #warbirds #hawker #tempest | Daniel J Wheatcroft | Facebook

The Hawker Tempest is a British fighter aircraft primarily used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) in the Second World War. The Tempest, originally known as the Typhoon II, was an improved derivative of the Hawker Typhoon, intended to address the Typhoon's unexpected fall-off of performance at high altitude by replacing its wing with a thinner laminar flow design. Having diverged considerably from the Typhoon, it was chosen to rename the aircraft Tempest. The Tempest emerged as one of the most powerfu