British fighter-bomber Hawker Typhoon Mk 1B
History, development, service, specifications, statistics, pictures, video and 3D model.
Hawker Typhoon Mk 1B
Type: British fighter-bomber.
History:
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The N-type (Napier), named Hawker Typhoon, was held back six months by the desperate need for Hawker Hurricanes. Eventually, after most painful development, production began at Gloster Aircraft in 1941 and Nos 56 and 609 Squadrons at Duxford began to re-equip with the big bluff-looking machine in September of that year.
But the Sabre was unreliable, rate of climb and performance at height were disappointing and the rear fuselage persisted in coming apart.
There was much talk of scrapping the program, but, fortunately for the Allies, the snags were gradually overcome. In November 1942 the Hawker Typhoon suddenly sprang to favor by demonstrating it could catch and destroy the fastest fighter-bombers, like the Focke Wulf Fw 190, in the Luftwaffe which were making low-level hit-and-run raids.
In 1943 ‘Tiffy’ squadrons shot-up and blasted everything that moved in northern France and the Low Countries, and in the summer of 1944 the hundreds of Typhoons – by now thoroughly proven and capable of round-the-clock operation from rough forward strips – formed the backbone of 2nd Tactical Air Force attack strength, sending millions of cannon shells, rockets and heavy bombs into German ground forces and in a single day knocking out 175 tanks in the Falaise gap.
Gloster built 3,315 of the 3,330 Typhoons, the final 3,000-odd having a clear bubble hood instead of a heavy-framed cockpit with a car-type door on each side.
Animated 3D model Hawker Typhoon Mk 1B
Specifications Hawker Typhoon Mk 1B
Specifications:
Hawker Typhoon Mk 1B | Specification |
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Type | fighter-bomber |
Power plant | one 2,180 hp Napier Sabre II 24-cylinder flat-H sleeve-valve liquid-cooled engine |
Accommodation | 1 |
Wing span | 41 ft 7 in |
Length overall | 31 ft 11 in |
Height overall | 15 ft 3.5 in |
Weight empty | 8,800 lb |
Weight loaded | 13,250 lb |
Maximum speed | 412 mph |
Initial climb | 3000 ft / min. |
Service ceiling | 35,200 ft |
Range | 510 miles (with bombs), 980 miles (with drop tanks) |
Armament:
Hawker Typhoon Mk 1B | Specification |
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in outer wings | Four 20 mm Hispano guns |
external load | racks for eight rockets or up two 500 lb bombs |
Service statistics:
Hawker Typhoon Mk 1B | figures |
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First flight | 24 February 1940 |
Production delivery | 27 May 1941 |
Final delivery | November 1945 |
Total production figure | 3,330 |
Video from the action with Hawker Typhoon in video games
Mission with Hawker Typhoon and other British vehicles in a ‘Realistic Ground Battle’ of the free2play game War Thunder:
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References and literature
Combat Aircraft of World War II (Bill Gunston)
Technik und Einsatz der Kampfflugzeuge vom 1. Weltkrieg bis heute (Ian Parsons)
Das große Buch der Luftkämpfe (Ian Parsons)
Luftkrieg (Piekalkiewicz)
Flugzeuge des 2. Weltkrieges (Andrew Kershaw)
Kampfflugzeuge (Bill Gunston)
Operation Barbarossa: the Complete Organisational and Statistical Analysis, and Military Simulation, Volume I – IIIB (Nigel Askey)
The Encyclopedia of Weapons of World War II (Chris Bishop)
Krieg der Panzer (Piekalkiewicz)
Typhoon/Tempest in action (Jerry Scutts)