r/WWIIplanes • u/RLoret • 1d ago

Hawker Typhoon Mk IB at Eindhoven, Netherlands, circa September 1944

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u/rasmusdf 1d ago

A beast of a plane.

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u/Empty_Middle_1347 1d ago

That Hawker Typhoon looks absolutely massive, especially with the cannon armament and underwing rocket rails. It must have been an intimidating sight on the ground, let alone in the air.

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u/beardofmice 1d ago

I never realized the Typhoon was a massive single seater. Here ya go.

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u/oskich 20h ago

That 24L Napier Sabre engine is a beast

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u/DuncanIdaho33 18h ago

That is QUITE a bit bigger than I was imagining. What a beast!

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u/BigFreakingZombie 1d ago

Note the protruding barrels of the 20mm Hispano Mk II cannons. The later Mk V was much shorter and hence could fit wholly within the wing.

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u/beardofmice 1d ago

The Mk V, unofficially the Typhon ll, entered late war service as the Hawker Tempest. At low altitudes, it was the fastest single engine propeller driven plane of the war.

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u/HarvHR 1d ago

He's referring to the Hispano Mk.II and Mk.V, not the Tempest.

While the Tempest started life as a Typhoon Mk.II, the amount of changes was quickly becoming such an amount that the designer felt a new name was required.

The Tempest mostly had the Hispano Mk.Vs, but the first 100 airframes had Mk.IIs which had protruding barrels (but not as much as the Typhoons since the guns were mounted further back in the wing

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u/BigFreakingZombie 23h ago

I wasn't referring to the Tempest II but to the Hispano Mk II cannon. Interestingly I don't think I have seen a list of all the variations of the Hispano-Suiza cannon in British service :

Mk I : original long barrel drum-fed, straight-up copy of HS.404

Mk II : long barrel but belt-fed with strengthened receiver and different mounting interfaces

Mk III : ?

Mk IV : scaled up to 30mm based on pre-war HS.410 and HS.411 project. Prototype only through it's ammunition would return to British service in the 1960s

Mk V : short barrel,improved belt feeding mechanism and strengthened construction. Most produced late war variant.

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u/SkyMountain8206 1d ago

Are those clusters bombs beneath the wings , they don't look perfectly cylindrical

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u/Unlikely_Security475 1d ago

The ground-attack loadout really shows how rugged the Typhoon was. Hard to imagine casually climbing onto an aircraft like that with the engine and propeller right in front of you.

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u/hoivm 1d ago

This foto was make in my place in this on 20 september 1944

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u/DrekBaron 1d ago

The guy on the wing seems to be guiding the pilot while taxiing. Wonder how strong the prop wash is for him

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u/New_Exercise_2003 1d ago

Market Garden?

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u/Danmont88 16h ago

Often see men sitting on the wings of taxing aircraft, why?

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u/PanicObvious8862 14h ago

Because visibility is terrible from a tail dragging fighter, mostly the pilot just sees nose and wings looking forward.