Hawker Tempest
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hawker-tempest-185-4938316
title:
Hawker Tempest
text:
The Hawker Tempest is a British fighter aircraft that was primarily used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) in the Second World War. The Tempest, originally known as the Typhoon II, was an improved derivative of the Hawker Typhoon, intended to address the Typhoon's unexpected deterioration in performance at high altitude by replacing its wing with a thinner laminar flow design. Since it had diverged considerably from the Typhoon, it was renamed Tempest. The Tempest emerged as one of the most powerful
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
British fighter aircraft
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Tempest
date created:
2003-03-11T00:23:28Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T17:45:27Z
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13
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