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	Hawker Typhoon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The basic design of both continued the Hawker tradition of using 'older' construction techniques; the front fuselage was welded steel just like the Hurricane, and the design used a massive 40 foot (12 m) wing that was much thicker than those on designs like the Spitfire.
		For use in the tactical reconnaissance role, the Typhoon FR.IB was developed early in 1945.
		Hawker developed an improved version of the Typhoon, the Typhoon II but the differences between it and the Mark I were so great that it was effectively a different plane, the Hawker Tempest.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hawker_Typhoon (1055 words)

	AeroARCHIVE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Typhoon was designed by the Hawker team under Sydney Camm, Chief Designer of Hawker Aircraft Ltd., as a direct and logical development of the Hawker Hurricane.
		In the head-on view of the Typhoon there is a noticeable "crank" in the wings caused by slight anhedral on the centre section followed by dihedral on the outer wing sections.
		In the Hawker Typhoon, Fighter Command has yet another aeroplane which is far ahead in technical development of all aeroplanes in the Luftwaffe.
	www.aeroplanemonthly.com /archive/typhoon/Typhoon.htm (1560 words)

	TYPHOON
		Hawker got an order for 1000 planes, 500 Tornado’s and 250 Typhoons, the other 250 were to be built with the engine that was test as the best.
		Because Hawker was producing the Hurricane, the Tornado was to be built by AVRO and the Typhoon by Gloster, associated company’s of the Hawker Siddley Group.
		The Typhoons had the shape similar to the FW 190, and to anticipate any confusion the Typhoons were in 1943 fitted out with broad fl and white stripes.
	typhooneng.bravepages.com /typhoon.htm (1242 words)

	Hawker Typhoon Information - TextSheet.com
		The Typhoon was a British single-seat fighter aircraft, produced by Hawker Aircraft starting in 1941.
		The basic design of both continued the Hawker tradition of using 'older' construction techniques; the front fuselage was welded steel just like the Hurricane, and the design used a massive 40 foot wing that was much thicker than what you would find on designs like the Spitfire.
		One Typhoon was also converted as a prototype night fighter, with A.I. equipment, special night-flying cockpit and other modifications.
	www.medbuster.com /encyclopedia/h/ha/hawker_typhoon.html (852 words)

	HAWKER TYPHOON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		De Hawker Typhoon was een jachtvliegtuig - bommenwerper in dienst bij de RAF tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog.
		Het was de opvolger van de Hawker Hurricane en werd, zoals zijn voorganger, ontworpen door Sydney Camm in 1937.
		Hawker ontdekte het probleem: metaalmoeheid in een las van het achterste deel van de romp.
	www.thumpershollow.com /encyclopedia/H/Hawker_Typhoon (228 words)

	>Hawker Typhoon Mk.IB R7698
		The first outwardly visible change to the Typhoon occurred when the canopy was changed to a clear view rear section instead of the solid fairing - although entry was still through a car-style door.
		Hawker decided that 12 × 0.303 inch (7.7 mm) guns would also increase the firepower by 50%, so they included that option as well.Two airframe variants were developed, the R-type (for the Rolls Royce Vulture engine), and the N-type (for the Napeir Sabre engine).
		These were to be named the 'Tornado' and Typhoon' respectively.The design emphasized on strength and maintainability, instead of elegance, and was also one of the first design to have a 'bubble'-like cockpit like also seen on the North American P-51D or the Focke-Wulf Fw 190.
	www.angelfire.com /oh3/pmodels/typhoon.html (306 words)

	Hawker
		Hawker had long since established itself as a maker of very good fighter aircraft, dating back to World War I. In 1933, the chief designer of Hawker, Sydney Camm, proposed a design of a new monoplane largely based upon the Hawker Fury biplane, to be powered by the Rolls Royce Goshawk engine.
		Hawker’s Sydney Camm set to work and he and his team designed a fighter that would be tested with each engine.
		The Typhoon II would have a thinner wing, not unlike that already used by the Spitfire and America’s P-47 Thunderbolt (Seversky, later to become Republic, had used the elliptical wing planform long before Mitchell adapted it to the Spitfire).
	home.att.net /~ww2aviation/Hawker.html (2629 words)

	Hawker Typhoon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The RAF placed a large order for it as well, but moved production to Gloster Aircraft who otherwise had no designs to produce.
		In one famous case Tiffies of the 2nd TAF decimated a large concentration of armor ahead of Avranches, disposing of no fewer than 137 tanks, and opening the way for the liberation of France and Belgium.
		Hawker developed an improved version of the Typhoon, the Typhoon II but the differences between it and the Mark I were so great that it was later re-named Tempest.
	www.leessummit.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Hawker_Typhoon (1050 words)

	Hawker Typhoon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Typhoon Mk IB The first production aircraft were supplied to the RAF in September 1941, initially to No. 56 (F) Squadron, and service use demonstrated only too quickly that the airframe problems had not been eradicated.
		Fortunately, Hawker was able to discover the reason for an alarming number of aircraft losing the complete tail unit, but it was almost the end of 1942 before all engine and airframe bugs had been resolved.
		Thereafter Typhoon squadrons ranged over France and the Low Countries, playing havoc with German communications, but their full potential was realised in late 1943 when the type was equipped to carry rocket projectiles.
	www.kotfsc.com /aviation/typhoon.htm (2678 words)

	Hawker Typhoon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Typhoon was a British single-seat fighter aircraft, produced by Hawker Aircraft[?].
		The work proved useful when Hawker received specification F.18/37 in January 1938 from the Air Ministry, which asked for a fighter based around either the Napier Saber[?] or the Rolls-Royce Vulture[?] engine.
		The basic design continued the Hawker tradition of using 'older' construction techniques; the front fuselage was welded steel just like the Hurricane, and the design used a massive 40 foot wing that was much thicker than what you would find on designs like the Spitfire.
	www.termsdefined.net /ha/hawker-typhoon.html (908 words)

	Hawker Typhoon 1B airplane pictures & aircraft photos - RAF Museums
		Originally designed as a twelve-gun fighter, the Typhoon was intended to be the successor to the Hurricane.
		The Typhoon reached the height of its fame operating as a tank destroyer.
		With the end of the war in Europe the Typhoon's specialised role was finished and it quickly disappeared from service.
	www.rafmuseum.com /hawker-typhoon-1b.htm (262 words)

	Hawker Typhoon aircraft profile. Aircraft Database of the Fleet Air Arm Archive 1939-1945
		The Typhoon proving relatively easy to fly at high speeds, its low speed qualities left much to be desired, and it had a marked tendency to swing to starboard during take-off.
		The Typhoon IB, affectionately known as the "Tiffy", distinguished itself particularly in the Battle of Normandy, where it decimated a large concentration of armor ahead of Avranches, disposing of 137 tanks, and opening the way for the liberation of France and Belgium.
		Mosquito, Typhoon and Tempest - By Chaz Bowyer, Authur Reed and Roland Beamont.
	www.fleetairarmarchive.net /Aircraft/Typhoon.html (714 words)

	The Hawker Typhoon, Tempest, & Sea Fury
		The Typhoon's thick, rugged wing was partly to blame for some of the aircraft's performance problems, and as far back as March 1940 a few engineers had been set aside to investigate the new "laminar flow" wing, which the Americans had implemented in the P-51 Mustang.
		The new wing was originally longer than that of the Typhoon, at 13.1 meters (43 feet), but then the wingtips were clipped off and the wing became shorter than that of the Typhoon, at 12.5 meters (41 feet).
		Hawker concentrated on the Sea Fury for the Royal Navy, since the admirals felt they needed to stay with piston fighters for a few years until the complications of operating jet aircraft from carriers were worked out.
	www.vectorsite.net /avcfury.html (5737 words)

	The Hawker Typhoon, Tempest, & Sea Fury
		Hawker and the RAF were stuck with the Typhoon.
		Despite the fact that the Typhoon became a significant asset to the Allied war effort, the aircraft's teething problems and its limitations could not be ignored.
		The Sea Fury remained the foremost FAA single-seat fighter until it began to be replaced by the Hawker Sea Hawk in 1953.
	www.faqs.org /docs/air/avcfury.html (5635 words)

	Hawker Typhoon Mk.Ib by Bob Laskodi (Hasegawa 1/48)
		The main purpose of this article is not to focus on the history of the Typhoon, but instead to focus on those brave men that flew them in combat.
		In 1944 when it became apparent that an invasion of Europe was going to happen he volunteered for overseas duty as his brother was in the Army and he felt as only one son had to go overseas it would be safer in the air than the ground.
		The pilots were afraid of the Typhoons as they had ignition problems causing fires, and their tails had a habit of falling off while dive-bombing.
	hsfeatures.com /typhoonbl_1.htm (1339 words)

	Hawker Typhoon Ib (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Although the Typhoon flew after the Tornado, problems with the Vulture engine led to its cancellation, and the Typhoon was ordered into mass production.
		Armed with 4 20mm guns, the Typhoon was a bat out of hell, albeit with a grave weakness : it had a tendency to loose its tail during flight.
		This Typhoon retained the letter "W" on a white circle between the spinner and radiator intake.
	www.rcaf2000.net /typhoon/typhie.htm (1273 words)

	Hawker Typhoon and Tempest history
		The 820-mile range of the Tempest V in clean condition was an appreciable improvement over that of the Typhoon, and was due not only to the small additional quantity of fuel carried but to the aerodynamic refinement of the later machine which permitted a higher cruising speed for the same power.
		The Typhoon was designed in a naval fighter variant to meet the requirements of specification N.11/40, and one prototype was converted to this standard under the Hawker project designation P.1009.
		Another Typhoon modification, the P.1010, was to have had leading-edge radiators and a turbo blower, but work on this was not proceeded with.
	www.military.cz /british/air/war/fighter/tempest/history.htm (3009 words)

	RC HAWKER TYPHOON
		The success of the Typhoon in the ground-attack role led to trials with two 250-lb.
		On the first few Typhoon IAs the solid rear fairing was retained; later a transparent fairing was fitted, but this was abandoned in favor of the first sliding " bubble " hood to be used by an operational fighter.
		The Typhoon IB, by now affectionately known as the "Tiffy", distinguished itself particularly in the Battle of Normandy, where it decimated a large concentration of armor ahead of Avranches, disposing of no fewer than 137 tanks, and opening the way for the liberation of France and Belgium.
	www.rchobby.co.uk /rc_hawker_typhoon.html (435 words)

	Typhoon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hawker decided that 12 × 0.303 inch (7,7 mm) guns would also increase the firepower by 50%, so they included that option as well.
		The design emphasized on strength and maintainability, in stead of elegance, and was also one of the first design to have a 'bubble'-like cockpit like also seen on the North American P-51D or the Focke-Wulf Fw 190.
		After the invasion of the Low Countries in May 1940 the order for the Typhoon was canceled so Hawker could concentrate on the Hurricane in stead.
	www.turnkeyrc.com /typhoon.htm (347 words)

	Painting Up a Storm: Marking Practices of the Hawker Typhoon Part 1
		Originally designed as an interceptor and armed with 12.303 Browning machine guns, the Typhoon was to gain fame as a ground attack aircraft armed with four 20mm cannon and various bombs and rockets.
		The first change to the markings of the Typhoon was the replacing of the dark earth with Ocean Gray and the underside with Medium Sea Gray.
		One variant of the Typhoon that was not proceeded with was that of a radar equipped night-fighter.
	www.cbrnp.com /profiles/quarter2/typhoons-1.htm (709 words)

	Hawker Typhoon
		The Typhoon was armed with twelve browning.303inch machine guns in the wings (MK1A) Four 20mm Hispano cannon in wings (MK1B) Two 1000ilb bombs or eight 3-inch rockets under wings.
		On 29th June 1942, he was posted as Flight Commander to Hawker Typhoon equipped 609 Squadron at Duxford, and took command of the squadron in October.
		Heavily armed with cannon, rockets and bombs, the Typhoon's sharp shooting pilots became the scourge of the German ground forces, exampled by the action at Mortain on 7th August 1944 when Typhoons wiped out the 1st SS Panzer Division.
	www.aviationprints.co.uk /typhoon.htm (2315 words)

	Model Airplane News: Reviews - HOBBY HANGAR - HAWKER TYPHOON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This 1/12-scale Hawker Typhoon Mk IB kit was drawn and designed by Ron Daniels and is distributed by Hobby Hangar*.
		Because the nose moment on the Typhoon is relatively short, I needed to place the battery pack as far forward as possible to balance the plane.
		The Hobby Hangar Hawker Typhoon is a great 1/12-scale sport kit for the intermediate builder who's looking for a warbird.
	www.modelairplanenews.com /reviews/typhoon.asp (2056 words)

	High Planes 1/72 Hawker Typhoon Mk.IB
		The Hawker Typhoon was one of a couple of aircraft developed primarily as the Hawker Hurricane replacement (the other was the Hawker Tornado) and first flew in February 1940.
		The Typhoon also had a structural weakness in the rear fuselage that was not fully cured until after it entered service in September 1941.
		This is where the Typhoon found a niche, in the fighter-bomber role, and during the last two years of the Second World War it equipped some 26 Squadrons of the 2nd Tactical Air Force.
	www.fortunecity.com /meltingpot/portland/971/Reviews/raf/typhoon-1b_hp.htm (1329 words)

	Hawker Typhoon
		Although the decision to use the Typhoon before it was ready was ultimately justified by the results, it meant in the beginning that the first Typhoon squadrons were virtually continuing the flight test development of the aircraft with one of the facilities for the job but every disadvantage.
		Without the tremendous pressure resulting from these accidents, however, it is unlikely that the Typhoon would have developed and been available in adequate numbers to provide one of the finest ground-support aircraft for the invasion of Europe some eighteen months later.
		Emergency landings became an inevitable part of the routine of flying Typhoons; and the prospect particularly of engine trouble over the sea was not a happy one.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWtyphoon.htm (691 words)

	Hawker Typhoon 1 B
		Hawker sah in ihm den Nachfolger des Hurricane-Jägers, der damals an die RAF geliefert wurde.
		Der Typhoon hatte sich als katastrophal in dieser Rolle erwiesen und wurde 1942 fast rückgängig gemacht, nachdem die meisten der 142 gelieferten Maschinen gravierende Unfälle erlitten hatten ohne jemals viel vom Kampf zu sehen.
		Der Typhoon flog aber großartig weiter unten und wurde spielend mit den tieffliegenden, lästigen Angriffen der deutschen Jäger und auch der Fw 190 fertig.
	www.sepsy.de /raf-hawker-typhoon1b.htm (322 words)

	www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org - British Aviation Resource Center - Hawker Typhoon
		Once again the Typhoon risked cancellation but held on long enough for the problems to be resolved and a niche to be found.
		In 1943 the Typhoon's reputation grew as it descended on France and the Low countries and shot-up anything that moved.
		Of the 3,330 Typhoons built, most (3,000 odd) had a bubble type canopy instead of the heavy framed canopy of the earlier type.
	www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org /BARC/typhoon.html (356 words)

	Plane Vanes - Hawker Typhoon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Typhoon was armed with twelve Browning.303inch machine guns in the wings (MK1A) Four 20mm Hispano cannon in wings (MK!B) Two 1000ilb bombs or eight 3-inch rockets under wings.
		The Hawker Typhoon started life in the role of interceptor around the cost of England but soon found its real role as a ground attack aircraft.
		Conceived initially by Hawkers (of Hurricane fame), as a fast powerful fighter, the Typhoon's performance in this role proved to be disappointing in the respect of rate of climb, and at height.
	www.wink.com.au /planevanes/typhoon.htm (214 words)

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