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Hawker Tempest Mk.VI

GENERAL DATA
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Fighter, Fighter-Bomber
1
Hawker Aircraft Limited
142
9 May 1944
post-war

 

Variants
The original designation of the Hawker Tempest.
Prototype fitted with the Napier Sabre IV piston engine with oil coolers and radiators placed in the wing to reduce drag, one aircraft.
Single-seat fighter aircraft for the RAF, powered by a Bristol Centaurus radial piston engine, 402 built by Hawker at Langley and 50 by Bristol Aeroplane Company, Banwell.
Single-seat fighter-bomber with underwing pylons for bombs and rockets.
Prototype fitted with the Rolls-Royce Griffon piston engine.
Tempest Mk III prototype re-engined with a Rolls-Royce Griffon 61 piston engine.
Single-seat fighter, fighter-bomber aircraft, powered by the Napier Sabre II piston engine, 801 built at Langley.
The first 100 production aircraft were fitted with four long-barrel 20 mm (.79 in) Mark II Hispano cannons and continued to use some Typhoon components.
The other 701 production aircraft were fitted with four short-barrel 20 mm Mark V Hispano cannons and other production line changes.
After the Second World War a number of Tempest Mk Vs were converted to serve as target tugs.
Single-seat fighter aircraft for the RAF engined with the Sabre V, 142 built.

 

DIMENSIONS
10.26 m
4150.44 kg
12.50 m
5243.62 kg
4.52 m (*), 4.90 m (*)
6654.52 kg
28.1 m²
218 kg/m² (at 6100 kg)

(*) tail down with one propeller blade vertical

ARMAMENT
4 × 20 mm (.79 in) Hispano Mk II guns *
4 x 200
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2 × 230 kg or 450 kg bombs, 8 × 3 in (76.20 mm) RP-3 rockets (post-Second World War)

(*) or 4 × 20 mm (.79 in) Hispano Mk V gun (Serie 2)

POWERPLANT
1 × Napier Sabre V
H-24 liquid-cooled sleeve-valve, 36.65 L
2340-2600 hp
446.25-495.84 hp / ton *
730 L internal, with optional 410 L or 820 L in two drop tanks under wings

(*) with loaded weight (interceptor)

PERFORMANCES
705 km/h at 5400 m; 772 Km/h maximum
640 km/h
200 km/h
11582 m
24 m/s
680 km, 800 km

(*) vitesse de décrochage

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