Hawker Tempest V

Hawker Tempest V
Land	VERZENDING
Type	Gevechtsvliegtuigen
Fotograaf	Sergey Archakov
Beschrijving	Album 15 foto ' s walk-around van een "Hawker Tempest"

Foto galerij van een 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.