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The Hawker Tempest: Too powerful, too late
It was faster than the Spitfire and more feared than the missiles it hunted — yet the Hawker Tempest barely made it into the history books. This is the story of a warplane that could’ve changed ...
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Hawker Tempest, the Typhoon rebuilt into Britain’s low-altitude assassin of V-1s and late-war fighters
Born from everything Hawker wanted to fix on the Typhoon, the Tempest paired a new thin wing with brutal low-altitude speed to tear into V-1s, airfields, and front-line targets across Europe. This ...
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