Hawker Tempest Fighter Family

The Hawker Tempest was a late-war British fighter family developed from Hawker's Typhoon experience with a new thin wing, powerful engines, and heavy armament. The Tempest V became a highly effective low-level fighter and interceptor against ground targets and V-1 flying bombs, while the family’s Sabre, Centaurus, and Griffon variants show the engineering choices used to push piston-powered fighters toward their performance limits.