Hawker Tempest RAF Aircraft Blank Birthday Fathers Day Card by Keith Woodcock GAvA
Designed by Sir Sydney Camm as a successor to the earlier Typhoon, the Tempest proved to be a formidable low level aircraft and unlike its earlier stablemate quite good at height as well. First introduced into service in the spring of 1944 the Tempest arrived just in time to help thwart the V1 campaign that would wage from June-September. From there the aircraft would move to the continent where they acheived many notable successes, some over the vaunted Me262 and Ar234 jet aircraft.
Unlike the Typhoon, the Tempest went on to be produced in further variants with the radial-engined Mk.II selling reasonably well over-seas, notably to India.
Keith Woodcock shows the aircraft of one of the RAF's top V1 killers, Roland Beamont. Beamont had started his career on Hurricanes, had helped make the Typhoon an effective aircraft and would lead the Tempest equipped 150 Wing to being one of the most effective anti-V1 units.
