Typhoon and Tempest at War
Arthur Reed, Roland Beamont - Typhoon and Tempest at War
Ian Allan | 1974 | ISBN: 0711005427 | English | 186 pages | PDF | 155.58 MB
Ian Allan | 1974 | ISBN: 0711005427 | English | 186 pages | PDF | 155.58 MB
What an excellent book. Full to the brim with rare photographs, detailing the distinguished lineage of the "Tiffys" and Tempest from Hurricane through to Tornado, Typhoon, Tempest and then on to the Fury and Sea Fury. All this and Roland Beamont as co-author - how can you go wrong? The book, as the inside jacket notes states, attempts to correct a slight injustice paid, to the Typhoons especially, due to the well recorded exploits of the Hurricanes and Spitfires during World War II which led to the latter being side-lined as an "inferior type" especially early on when test pilots who flew the early Typhoons never knew if they would make it back or suffer a mid-air catastrophic and usually fatal loss of the whole of the rear end of the aeroplane. As the book title suggests , the main emphasis is on the "Typhoon and the Tempest at War" - the Typhoon section includes an excellent multi-view drawing of the Typhoon Mk I B by G.R.Duval and the Tempest section "Enter the Tempest" has a cut away of the Tempest II, Typhoon and Tempest V.