Hawker Typhoon

what is it?

The Hawker Typhoon is a British single-seat fighter-bomber, produced by Hawker Aircraft. It was intended to be a medium-high altitude interceptor, as a replacement for the Hawker Hurricane, but several design problems were encountered and it never completely satisfied this requirement. The Typhoon was originally designed to mount twelve .303 inch (7.7 mm) Browning machine guns and be powered by the latest 2,000 hp (1,500 kW) engines.

🔎How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 12.7 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 679 km/htop speed
• size 6,010 kgmax take-off weight
• built 3,330made in total

Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).

fun facts

• 🎂First flew 86 years ago, in 1940.
• 🏎️Top speed is 5.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 12.7 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
• 🏔️Can fly 1.1× higher than Mount Everest (8,849 m).

piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.

spec sheet

first flight

1940-02-24

introduced

1941

retired

1945

status

retired

number built

3,330

role

fighter-bomber

origin

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

makers

Hawker Siddeley

engines

1× Napier Sabre IIA, IIB or IIC

length

9.7 m

wingspan

12.7 m

height

4.7 m

max take-off weight

6,010 kg

top speed

679 km/h

range

—

ceiling

9,693 m

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.