Hawker Tempest - Sweat Shirt Airacobra Initially the F-111 was considered

Initially the F-111 was considered but the option of ordering the Phantom was taken with alteration to engines

Armstrong Siddeley and Armstrong Whitworth to become Hawker Siddeley

5 Group RAF became 617 under the command of Wing Commander Guy Gibson with crews made up of many nationalities including the Royal Australian Air Force

Kitty Hawk in North Carolina

Eric M 'Winkle' Brown flew the Wildcat / Martlet and commented that

Hawker Tempest - Sweat Shirt Airacobra Initially the F-111 was consideredHawker Tempest The Tempest was to be called the Typhoon II, but entered service in 1944 as the Tempest. The Tempest was mainly used at low level and for intercepting V 1 Flying Bombs as the aircraft was a superb gun platform. In the latter part of the war the Tempest was very effective at destroying ground targets as well as combat against the Me262, being the fastest single engine propellor aircraft at the time. The Hawker Sea Fury was an evolution