Hawker Tempest

The Hawker Tempest is a British fighter aircraft of World War II. It was also used as an attack aircraft. The Royal Air Force used it for rockets and bomb attacks for D-Day.

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Painting of two Tempest aircraft attacking a V-1 flying bomb in the sky above an Oasthouse.
Tempest Mk. III prototype LA610.
Tempest Mk. V prototype with bubble canopy and Mk. V tail, but with 20 mm Hispano Mk. II guns.
Tempest SN354, outfitted with experimental 47 mm class P guns and standard smaller four-spoke wheels.
Tempest Mk. II prototype with bubble canopy and Mk. V tail, but with 20 mm Hispano Mk. II guns.
New Tempest IIs of the first production batch at Hawker Aircraft. Note the closely cowled engine and the carburettor and oil-cooler intakes in the starboard wing's inner leading edge.
A Royal Air Force Hawker Tempest F Mk VI (serial NX201), in August 1945. NX201 was delivered to 6 Squadron RAF ("JV-U") at Nikosia, Cyprus, in 1947 and served in the Middle East until 1949.

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