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RE:Euro Fighter Naval - usually Hawker H....
Gray
3/19/2004 6:55:14 PM
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| "The Tempest and Typhoon were distant derivatives of the Hurricane design modified for ground attack."
Yes, but you're not really contradicting me here, Worcester.
Tornado, Typhoon and Tempest were (in that order) closely related aircraft, taking the Hurricane design back to the drawing board in order to create a successor.
Tornado was to be a fighter, the project was abandoned before it was put into production but became:
Typhoon, designed to be a fighter but found to be unsuitable, used instead in the ground attack role for which it was very suited, whilst a further variant became:
Tempest, the fighter that Tornado and Typhoon attempted to be, a true successor to the Hurricane and the best RAF fighter of WW2.
NB.
A further development was Fury, never put into production for the RAF but the Fleet Air Arm bought it, called it Sea Fury and flew it throughout the 1940s and in Korea. Oh, and this isn't alliterative either, nice pattern, but as often happens it wasn't followed 100%!
Oh, and you may prefer to drop the 'Sea' prefix from fleet air arm fixed wing aircraft, but the Royal Navy obviously doesn't! Hence Sea Harrier for the FRS1/FA2 etc... |
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