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Hawker Typhoon

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The so-called 'N type' fighter (developed in parallel with the Tornado) was powered by a 2,180 HP Napier Sabre engine. This powerful engine gave the Typhoon exceptional low-altitude performance, but it had a lot of teething troubles. Another problem was the conservative wing design, with a thickness of 18%, which was resulted in serious compressibility problems. A bad high-altitude performance and problems with the tail structure (finally traced back to a failure of the elevator balance weight causing flutter) sealed its failure as an all-round fighter. The Typhoon then earned fame as ground attack aircraft.
Bombardier
United-Kingdom
George C. Blackbum, a former gunner with the Canadian artillery
wrote in his award winning, national best seller 'The Guns of Normandy', published in
1995, that:

Surely the Typhoon is proving to be the most effective weapon of all in combating the superiority of the enemy's armour, particularly his irresistible Tigers. Without the Typhoons, the Allies might never have subdued his armoured divisions to the point where a break-out became possible
 

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