Hawker Tempest Facts for Kids

Quick facts for kids Hawker Tempest

RAF's Hawker tempest.
Role	Fighter & attack aircraft.
National origin	UK
Manufacturer	Hawker
First flight	1942
Introduction	1944
Status	Out of service
Primary user	Royal Air Force
Number built	1702 examples

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 a farmhouse.
Tempest I prototype HM599 with later bubble canopy; when first flown, it had the "car-door" canopy and small tail unit
First prototype Tempest Mk.II LA602, again with the small tail unit
Tempest Mk.III prototype LA610
Tempest Mk.V prototype with bubble canopy and Mk V tail, but with 20 mm Hispano Mk.II guns.
The first production Tempest V JN729. Small blisters streamlining the aft upper wing attachment bolts are visible on the wing root fairing. Long-barrelled Hispano II cannon and Typhoon five-spoke mainwheels were other identifying features of the first production batch of 100 Tempests Vs.
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.
Tempest Mk.VI
A Tempest V flying overhead, marked with black and white stripes used for the easier identification of Hawker Typhoon and Tempest aircraft. These stripes, similar to the later Invasion stripes, were used until 20 April 1944
A Bristol Centaurus powered Tempest in flight
Formation of Tempest Mk Vs of No. 122 Wing returning to their base at B80/Volkel, the Netherlands
A Tempest V of 486 Squadron RNZAF at Volkel Air Base, the Netherlands, 1945
Early Tempest V of 486 Sqn. April 1944. JN766 still has its black and white Typhoon-style underwing recognition bands.
Early Tempest V of 3 Sqn. being refuelled and re-armed by ground crew at Newchurch, Kent, June 1944.
3 Squadron RAF Tempest and air crew during a pre-mission briefing, during the Battle of Normandy, 1944
A Tempest TT Mk.5 target tug, 1948
A preserved Tempest II, PR536, on display at the Royal Air Force Museum London, Hendon, London
A Tempest TT.5 NV778, on suspended display
Rear fuselage and tail of a Tempest Mk.II
Closeup head-on view of a Tempest Mk.II
Tempest Mk. I – Prototype HM599
Tempest Mk. II – Early F.B. Mk. II production model PR533. Note the underwing bomb racks.
Tempest Mk. III – Prototype LA610
Tempest Mk. V – Early production model, note the protruding barrels of the 20 mm Hispano Mk.II guns.
Tempest Mk. VI – Early production model NX201.

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