LATEST BRITISH FIGHTER
Longer Range Than Earlier Types HAWKER' TYPHOON DESCRIBED (8.0. W.) RUGBY, June 5, Information released about Britain's latest fighter aircraft, the Hawker Typhoon, shows that it has more speed, greater firing power, and heavier armament than any single-seater fighter yet designed. With a longer range than the Hurricane or the Spitfire, it is able to penetrate much further into enemy country. Created by Mr Sidney Camm, who gave the Royal Air Force the Hurricane, the Fury, and the Hart, the Typhoon is a compact low-wing monoplane equipped with a Napier Sabre 20-cylinder “hyphen” type engine. The world’s most powerful aircraft engine, the Sabre develops 2350 horse-power for the take-off and 1800 horse-power at rated height, and gives a top speed of more than 400 miles an hour, with a very high rate of climb. This engine, which develops more power than the Royal Scot, the famous British railway locomotive, is expected to make aircraft history. The armament of the Typhoon, according to tactical requirements, consists of a mixture of multiple machineguns or shell-firing cannon. ■ The Typhoon flew for the first time in February, 1940.
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23349, 7 June 1941, Page 9
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