Hawker Tempest - Sweat Shirt Airacobra building seaplanes and flying boats

building seaplanes and flying boats

Armstrong Siddeley and Armstrong Whitworth to become Hawker Siddeley

then F4B Phantoms

operated by over 60 Nations

Christmas day 1940 a Martlet shot down a Junkers Ju88 over Scapa Flow which was the first combat victory by a US built fighter in British service in World War II

Hawker Tempest - Sweat Shirt Airacobra building seaplanes and flying boatsHawker Tempest The Tempest was to be called the Typhoon II, but entered service in 1944 as the Tempest. The Tempest was mainly used at low level and for intercepting V 1 Flying Bombs as the aircraft was a superb gun platform. In the latter part of the war the Tempest was very effective at destroying ground targets as well as combat against the Me262, being the fastest single engine propellor aircraft at the time. The Hawker Sea Fury was an evolution