Hawker Tempest V Series 2 by ratfugel
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A very rare bird as I found out when I started to research it. A huge and devastating weapon when used for the purpose it was designed for....! Probably the fastest fighter of WW2. Armed with 4 canons (200 rounds per gun), backed up with rockets or bombs. A mighty piece of merchandise indeed!
(Best viewed enlarged). No, the prop isn't too large - it's a huge four-blader.
You might all like to read the following, which is an extract from Roland Beaumont’s notes about the Tempest and which prompted me to have a go at a profile:-
“ Reaching Newchurch airfield at 480 mph I held ‘RB’ down to 20ft from the runway and then pulled her up to a 60 degree climb, holding it as the speed dropped slowly off and the altimeter spinning round the dial as if it were mad. At 7000ft the speed was dropping below 180 mph and I rolled the Tempest lazily inverted, then allowed the nose to drop until the horizon, at first above my head, disappeared below (or rather above) the now inverted nose, the fields and the woods steadied into the centre of the windscreen and then whirled around as I put the stick hard over and rolled around the vertical dive. Steadying again I pulled out over the tree tops at 500 mph, throttled back and pulled hard over towards the airfield in an over vertical climbing turn, lowering the wheels and flaps in a roll as the speed dropped. What a magnificent aeroplane! They could have all their Spitfires and Mustangs!”
Comments (8)
Garlor
Perhaps one may fly in 2009, a complete restored airframe is in store in Bedfordshire waiting for the engine. Another is with Kermit weeks in florida. Good detailed view
proteus2
Very nice render ! Perhaps the pilot should be smaller. The plane was 8 tons, after all. --------------------- See P Clostermann's book on the subject P
Emil-arts
I too did a double take on the prop and your spot on. It was huge and the blades were very wide. Are you creating these in photoshop Warren ? Only the shading looks better than a rendered model.
dbrv6
Excellent profile
kjer_99
It's fine looking aircraft, but I confess that I don't know all that much about it. Will you coninue to fill us in on it. +
ratfugel
Data on this aircraft was hard to come by. It had a 2400 hp Napier Sabre engine which made it very fast indeed. Cannon were buried in the wings unlike the Typhoon, which had them protruding and creating extra drag. Various mods were continually being carried out to make it easier to fly. However, it came into its own when the V1 flying bombs were being sent out from Northern France. Since this was faster than most fighters it took some catching, but the Tempest could and did, shooting down several hundred out of the nearly 4000 that were launched. Problem was, if you shot one down you had to make sure you didn't get caught in the blast or it shot you down too. Fitted with rockets and bombs it was an excellent low level scourge of the railway lines, ground installations and the like. A truly fearsome machine.
debbielove
Hi. There is a post of one (the only one on show and fully intact) in the RAF Museum, in my gallery and NO the prop isn't to big. It had to be huge to ofset the massive amount of power thrown out by the Napier Sabre engine. When it carried no rockets or drop tanks and the like, it was by far the fastest fighter in service in any Allied service. But the Sabre was unreliable and had tendancy to over heat and catch fire. Another fault, that was fixed, was the rear fusalage snapping!! Not to good really. You done good, my friend, Rob.
limeyboy
Indeed ..Vey fine and rare! I myself have been fortunate enough to sit in one. PLEASE any ideas on how to get a Poser version?? Thanks