Hawker Tempest V

Hawker Tempest V
Paese	Regno unito
Ruolo	Caccia
Primo volo	Il 2 settembre 1942
Costruito	1702

Galleria fotografica di un Hawker Tempest V at The Royal Air Force Museum at Hendon, The Hawker Tempest was a British fighter aircraft primarily used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) in the Second World War. The Tempest was an improved derivative of the Hawker Typhoon, the type originally being known as the Typhoon II, which was 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 powerful fighters of the World War II and was the fastest propeller-driven aircraft of the war at low altitude.

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The Evolution of the Typhoon

Le Hawker Tempest Mk V was born from a desire to fix the “thick wing” problems of its predecessor, the Typhoon. By utilizing a new laminar-flow wing and the monstrously powerful Napier Sabre II engine, Hawker created one of the fastest piston-engined fighters of the war. While the Spitfire was a ballerina, the Tempest was a heavyweight boxer—brutally fast at low altitudes, heavily armed, and stable enough to be used for the most dangerous missions of 1944 and 1945, including hunting V-1 flying bombs and Messerschmitt Me 262 jets.

Attribute	Technical Specification (Mk V)
Ruolo	Fighter / Interceptor / Fighter-Bomber
Equipaggio	1 (Pilot)
Motopropulsore	1 × Napier Sabre IIB liquid-cooled H-24 sleeve-valve engine
Horsepower	2,180 hp (1,625 kW)
Velocità massima	435 mph (700 km/h) at 18,500 ft
Armamento principale	4 × 20 mm Hispano Mk V cannons (short-barrel, wing-mounted)
Low-Level Speed	376 mph (605 km/h) at sea level
Produzione	801 Mk V units built

Design Engineering: The H-24 Beast

The Napier Sabre Engine: Unlike the V12 Merlin, the Sabre was an “H-24” engine—essentially two flat-12 engines stacked on top of each other. It used sleeve valves instead of traditional poppet valves, allowing it to reach incredibly high RPMs and generate immense power from a relatively compact size.
Laminar Flow Wing: The Tempest featured a much thinner wing than the Typhoon, with the maximum thickness moved further back. This reduced drag significantly and prevented the compressibility issues that plagued earlier high-speed fighters.
The “Chin” Radiator: To cool the massive 24-cylinder engine, a giant circular radiator was placed under the nose. This gave the Tempest its aggressive, “bulldog” appearance and led to its nickname as the “engine with wings.”
Internal Fuel Capacity: By moving the oil tank and some plumbing out of the wings and into the fuselage, Hawker was able to fit more fuel internally, giving the Tempest the range it needed for long-range “Rhubarb” sweeps over occupied Europe.

A Record-Breaking War Career

The V-1 “Diver” Patrols: Because of its incredible low-altitude speed, the Tempest was the primary defense against the V-1 Flying Bomb. Tempest pilots accounted for 638 V-1 “kills” between June and August 1944.
Me 262 Hunter: The Tempest was one of the few Allied aircraft fast enough to catch a Messerschmitt Me 262 jet, usually by loitering near German airfields and pouncing while the jets were slow and vulnerable during takeoff or landing.
Pierre Clostermann: The famous French ace flew the Tempest with No. 3 Squadron RAF. His book The Big Show provides a harrowing account of the Tempest’s power and the danger of the “Sabre” engine’s temperamental nature.
Post-War Zenith: The design was so successful that it evolved into the Hawker Fury/Sea Fury, widely considered the ultimate expression of piston-engined fighter technology before the jet age took over completely.