Hawker Tempest - Sweat Shirt Airacobra Eric M 'Winkle' Brown flew

Eric M 'Winkle' Brown flew the Wildcat / Martlet and commented that

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Kitty Hawk in North Carolina

Initially the F-111 was considered but the option of ordering the Phantom was taken with alteration to engines

Hawker Tempest - Sweat Shirt Airacobra Eric M 'Winkle' Brown flewHawker Tempest The Tempest was to be called the Typhoon II, but entered service in 1944 as the Tempest. The Tempest was mainly used at low level and for intercepting V 1 Flying Bombs as the aircraft was a superb gun platform. In the latter part of the war the Tempest was very effective at destroying ground targets as well as combat against the Me262, being the fastest single engine propellor aircraft at the time. The Hawker Sea Fury was an evolution