Hawker Typhoon pt.2

More (vastly superior)Typhoon footage (from tarrif). Watch those rockets go!

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• hawker
• typhoon
• rocket
• HVAR
• ground
• attack
• fighter
• plane
• guncam
• wwii
• tempest
• strafe
• footage
• france
• normandy
• 1944
• RAF

[AndiJF]

Good clip. Pity it ends just before the bang at the end, but I guess the gun-camera footage stopped there.

[SmiertSpionem]

Yes, it seems the RAF were very short on film!

[StuntmanKnut]

aargh...damn keyboard...not Temopest!!! but Tempest!

lol! xD

[SmiertSpionem]

I just got home from a hard nights work and I'm afraid I'm too weak to correct my keybpreds deviations, not oin a darkened room anyhow! :D

[StuntmanKnut]

Sorry: *Clostermann and not WWI :p...but WWII xD

Sorry for the wrong writings!

PS: Even if this vid is about Typhoon, I just had to say this because I love the Tempest too! :D

Go Typhoon and Temopest! :D

[SmiertSpionem]

Ah, don't wory i'm always typing in ahurry 2. I think you spelled his name right though! He was an ok ace, but I believe there was another Frenchy who ranked seriously high (fighting both luftwaffe, then RAF (in vichy armee de'lair), then luftwaffe again). Also he flew the D.520(?) great plane also.

yeah thypoon and Tempest were great and surprisingly large! I have a 1/72 scale (on a massive stack of kits) tempest to make.

[tranmere789]

During Operation Goodwood (18th to 21st July) the 2nd Tactical Air Force and 9th USAAF claimed 257 and 134 tanks, respectively, as destroyed. Of these, 222 were claimed by Typhoon pilots using RPs. So what really happened? In the Goodwood area a total of 456 German heavily armoured vehicles were counted, and 301 were examined in detail. They found only 10 could be attributed to Typhoons using RPs (less than 3% of those claimed).

Typhoon pilots were some of biggest liars of WW2.

[tranmere789]

Considering the Germans lost around 1 500 tanks, tank destroyers and assault guns in the Normandy campaign, less than 7% were lost directly to air attack. The greatest contributor to the great myth regarding the ability of WWII aircraft to kill tanks was, and still is, directly the result of the pilot’s massively exaggerated kill claims.

[broworm1]

@SmiertSpionem I especially think the prop blades are HUGE and there are 4 of em, pretty uncommon

[roteba1]

A bizarre Typhoon quirk was that the fuselage vibrated on a very strange frequency. The pilot in his seat was insulated against it, but many reported that touching the side of the cockpit in flight was rather like receiving a slight electric shock....

[Alembic25]

The holding circuit has been described as a sort of taxi rank idea. You hang about and wait for work.

[GerbilEssences]

'holding circuit', is that a queue of planes in the air waiting for targets? Good idea, bet the Germans loved typhoons ;)

On the downside they were a bit of a handful compared to the spitfire when taking off.

[Alembic25]

Typhoons were used to devastating effect at Falaise, France. We realised we didn't need a Stuka rip off and we adapted the Typhoon for the role. Forward air controllers in the front line were able to call up air support from Typhoons who were waitng in a holding circuit nearby. Pioneering tactics still in use today in Afghanistan.

[killercrabman]

SMASH THE TIGER CHAPS!

[askdslhsda]

Its an expression.