Hawker Typhoon, Tempest, and Sea Fury

[Weaver]

Yep - just found it on my 2nd read through the Wiki page....

It's a tropical filter, fitted to Typhoons from roughly June 1944, due to the dust and debris encountered on rough fields in France post-D-Day. I thought it might be such a thing, but since only three Typhoons made it to the Middle East for trials, I didn't know under what circumstances it was fitted.

[NARSES2]

That's it 

Quite a common fit once they got to Normandy.

[Weaver]

Random idea: Brengun do a Typhoon Mk.1A with car-door cockpit and 12 x .303 Brownings. Why not blank off some of the MG holes and fit it with 2 x Vickers 40mm K guns as per the anti-tank Hurricane? For a backstory, maybe the North African campaign went on a bit longer and/or the Typhoon was developed a bit faster, and it went into service as a replacement for the Hurricane IID?

Hmmm Hannants Have AZ's 40mm-armed Hurricane Mk.IV and Mk.V on sale at the moment...

[NARSES2]

I have plans and the parts for one 

One of the last Tempest V's was fitted with 2 x 40mm P guns in very streamlined fairings. Trials only though.

[ysi_maniac]

A question. Were the Hawker Typhoon (wwii) wings surface made of wood?

Thanks.

[The Wooksta!]

No. 

[ysi_maniac]

... and aft fuselage, with those staples?

[kitnut617]

None of the Typhoon was build out of wood, the staples you refer to Carlos are reinforcing plates (aluminum) that were added after they discovered that the tail was coming off at the tail assembly joint after a rash of un-explained crashes.

[zenrat]

reinforcing.

<pedant mode off>

Sorry, can't help it.  Don't take it personally.

[kitnut617]

reinforcing.

<pedant mode off>

Sorry, can't help it.  Don't take it personally.

       

[NARSES2]

Been musing on the Airfix 1/72 kit in the stash, or one of them anyway, and that got me wondering if it would be possible for a Tiffie to carry both bombs and rockets ? Perhaps a pair of 250lb bombs plus two rockets per wing outside of the bomb racks ? Might make an interesting looking combination and might end up in RAF service that way.

[perttime]

Been musing on the Airfix 1/72 kit in the stash, or one of them anyway, and that got me wondering if it would be possible for a Tiffie to carry both bombs and rockets ? Perhaps a pair of 250lb bombs plus two rockets per wing outside of the bomb racks ? Might make an interesting looking combination and might end up in RAF service that way.

Possible? Probably.
Practical? Not so much.

I was reading some Typhoon articles yesterday, and one thing that struck me was that they soon decided to let each SQUADRON focus on either rockets or bombs. Not both. Apparently, they got significantly better hits when the pilot could focus on one method of delivering the goods.

They did carry drop tanks and 2 rockets per wing when more range was needed.

[kitnut617]

Been musing on the Airfix 1/72 kit in the stash, or one of them anyway, and that got me wondering if it would be possible for a Tiffie to carry both bombs and rockets ? Perhaps a pair of 250lb bombs plus two rockets per wing outside of the bomb racks ? Might make an interesting looking combination and might end up in RAF service that way.

I did one of my Typhoons like that Chris, mainly because I had seen a photo of one showing just that. Now the 'little grey cells' tell me it might have been for training purposes ---- but when has that ever stopped us 

Now these photos that I came across might offer some credence to that ----





If you look carefully at the Typhoon in this pic, you can see what I did.   

[NARSES2]

I was reading some Typhoon articles yesterday, and one thing that struck me was that they soon decided to let each SQUADRON focus on either rockets or bombs. Not both. Apparently, they got significantly better hits when the pilot could focus on one method of delivering the goods.

Very much so, and they all started off with bombs in the first place when they shifted to the fighter bomber role, rockets came along quite a bit latter.

They did carry drop tanks and 2 rockets per wing when more range was needed.

Yup I've seen photos of that, see Kitnut's above, and I've built a model of one with that configuration, just haven't seen the tanks replaced by bombs.

[NARSES2]

I did one of my Typhoons like that Chris, mainly because I had seen a photo of one showing just that. Now the 'little grey cells' tell me it might have been for training purposes ---- but when has that ever stopped us 

Cheers mate 

I do like the loadout on that one above