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Aviation History
1944
1944 - 0184.PDF
92 FLIGHT Studies in Recognition Aircraft in F LIKE all modern single-seater fighters, the Hawker Typhoon A may be armed with either cannon or machine guns and its function extended to that of fighter-bomber. With two 250 lb. or 500 lb. bombs under its wings it can dive-bomb, though no special dive-brakes are fitted. The Typhoon IB, shown here, has four 20 mm. Hispano cannon. Long-range auxiliary fuel tanks may replace bombs. Powered by the 2,200 h.p. 24-cylinder Napier Sabre engine, the^Typhoon has a top speed of more than 400 m.p.h. Recognition points include a short, blunt nose, tapered wings with dihedral from wide centre-section and rounded tips, tail- plane of similar plan, and "hammer-head" fin and rudder. Deep fuselage with "tear-drop" cockpit cover. Dimensions: Span, 41ft. 7in.; length, 31ft. nin.; height, 15ft.; wing area, 279 sq. ft. Hawker Typhoon IB Single-seater. u Lockheed Lightning (P-38) Single-seater. TWIN-FUSELAGE construction and tricycle undercarriage are prominent feati^es of the Lockheed (P-38) Lightning single-seater fighter of the U.S.A.A.F. Two 1,150 h.p. Allisons with turbo-superchargers give the P-38 a top speed of about 380 m.p.h. at 18,000ft. and good altitude performance. Armament consists of one 23 mm. Madsen cannon and four 0.5m. Colt machine guns, all grouped in the nose of the pilot's nacelle. A fighter-bomber version carries tivO 500 lb. bombs under the centre-section in place of the extra fuel tanks used when on long-range escort duties. Recognition features include radiator '' bulges'' amidships of twin fuselages, symmetrically tapered wings with small tips, long nacelles nose, egg-shaped fins and rudders threadedfjj^v round tailplane-tips. Dimensions: Span, 52ft.; length, 37ft. loin.; height, 9ft. ioin.; wing area, 327 sq. ft-
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