Hawker Typhoon And Tempest
Hawker Typhoon And Tempest

Author: Philip Birtles

Publisher: Fonthill Media

Published: 2018-11-10

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13:

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With the technology of the Hurricane being at the end of the biplane combat aircraft era, there was an urgent requirement for a modern fighter with a capability ahead of the anticipated German fighter development for the Luftwaffe. The Hawker design team lead by Sydney Camm created the all-metal stressed skin structure Typhoon powered by the revolutionary Napier Sabre engine. Whereas the Hurricane had been developed in peacetime, the Typhoon was designed in wartime, when the urgency of the programme caused the development of both the airframe and engine to be accelerated, resulting in teething troubles not being fully solved when the aircraft entered service with the RAF. The much improved Tempest used the same engine and basic fuselage with thinner lamina flow wings, giving improved performance at altitude, and allowing the destruction of the V1s at low altitude. Both aircraft made a significant impact on the victory by the Allies in WW2, although their low level ground attack missions were extremely hazardous, and resulted in high pilot losses.

Hawker Sea Fury
Hawker Sea Fury

Author: Kev Darling

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2009-03-16

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 0955984017

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The Hawker Sea Fury was the final piston engine fighter produced by the company. Developed from the earlier Tempest this aircraft served with distinction over Korea being flown by RN and RAN pilots. This book covers the story of the type and is well illustrated using photographs and diagrams.

Typhoon Pilot
Typhoon Pilot

Author: Desmond Scott

Publisher: Pen and Sword

Published: 1982-09-01

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1473820014

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A decorated WWII flying ace and Royal Air Force Group Captain recounts his experience in the air over Europe in this thrilling military memoir. New Zealand fighter pilot Desmond Scott joined the Royal Air Force in 1940. Over the course of his illustrious service, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and Bar, and a Distinguished Service Order. For the heroic act of rescuing a pilot from a crashed Supermarine Spitfire, he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. In Typhoon Pilot, Scott recounts his time as a young commander of a New Zealand Air Force squadron, and later as the RAF's youngest Group Captain at the age of 25. His story includes conflict in the air over Normandy, Belgium, Holland and Germany, where the Hawker Typhoon fighter-bomber fought its last battle.

Zero Hour
Zero Hour

Author: Clive Cussler

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons

Published: 2014-06-03

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 0425267776

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It is called zero point energy, and it really exists - a state of energy contained in all matter everywhere, and thus all but unlimited. Nobody has ever found a way to tap into it, however - until one scientist discovers a way. Or at least he thinks he has. The problem is, his machines also cause great earthquakes, even fissures in tectonic plates. One machine is buried deep underground; the other is submerged in a vast ocean trench. If Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala and the rest of the NUMA team aren't able to find and destroy them, and soon, the world will be on the threshold of a new era of earth tremors and unchecked volcanism.

Flying to the Limit
Flying to the Limit

Author: Peter Caygill

Publisher: Casemate Publishers

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 184415226X

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Describes the design and testing of British fighter planes during World War II.