BRITAIN’S LATEST FIGHTER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 207, 2 August 1941, Page 6

BRITAIN’S LATEST FIGHTER.

TOUGHER AND MORE DEADLY. LONDON, July 1. New facts about Britain's latest fighter aircraft, the Hawker Typhoon, disclose 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 Spitfire, it will be able to penetrate much further into enemy country. Created bv Sidney Camm, who gave' Britain's Royal Air Force the Hurricane, the Fury, and the Hart, each supreme in its day and class, the Typhoon in a compact low-wing monoplane equipped with a Napier-Sabre 23-evlinder H-typc engine. The world's most powerfu.l aeromotor, the Sabre, develops 23,50 h.p. for take-off and 1800 h.p. at rated height, and gives a top speed of over ' n7 i m.p.h., with a very high rate of climb. This engine, which develops more power than the Royal Scot, is expected to make aircraft history. The armament, according to tactical requirements, consists of a mixture of multiple machine guns or shell-fir-ing cannon. The Typhoon flew for the first time in February. 1940.