Hawker Typhoon - 05
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Hawker Typhoon - 05
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AM FineArtPrints
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Hawker Typhoon - 05 by Andrea Mazzocchetti
The Hawker Thypoon was a single-engine plane, a low-wing monoplane designed by the British company Hawker Aircraft in the late 1930s as a fighter plane with which to replace the previous Hurricane, which had recently entered service.
Some development problems delayed its implementation but, once resolved, it became the main fighter of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. It remained in service until 1945, when it was replaced by the Hawker Tempest.
The Typhoon project was born in the spring of 1937 when the designers of the Hawker Aircraft of Kingston, led by the engineer Sydney Camm, began working on the successor of the Hurricane fighter just entered into service in the Royal Air Force: on the initiative of the company, it was completed the project (called "Type N") of an aircraft with a Napier Saber engine, a 24-cylinder H engine, then under development; the project was submitted to the Air Ministry in July: the response, arrived the following month, invited the Hawker to await a specific request on the matter, of imminent emanation.
Sydney Camm and his staff then concentrated on a second similar project ("Type R") [N 1], which was mainly distinguished by the use of the 24-cylinder engine at X Rolls-Royce Vulture; this second hypothesis was precautionary, in the event that the Saber engine project had not come to fruition.
In January 1938 the Air Ministry published a first draft of the specification "F.18 / 37" which set the requirements for a new fighter aircraft, which would have had to use a motor of about 2 000 hp (expected power values in design office for both Saber and Vulture) and armament consisting of twelve Browning machine guns .303 in; according to at least one source, the possibility of using four 20 mm caliber cannons was taken into consideration (also in this case the Air Ministry relied on a project to be defined, which then led to the Hispano-Suiza automatic cannon HS.404) .
The decision to introduce the Typhoon into the RAF was taken in the summer of 1941 and was conditioned by news of the upcoming deployment of the Luftwaffe Focke-Wulf Fw 190; in fact, the appearance of the two aircraft on the western front was contemporary: the new German fighters were deployed in Moorseele [N 6], in Belgium, in the ranks of the II Group of Jagdgeschwader 26 (26th Stormo Caccia), the Typhoon were assigned to the No. 56 Squadron of the RAF, at the Duxford Air Base, near Cambridge
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