It was faster than a Spitfire, deadlier than a Typhoon, and more feared than the V-1s it hunted. The Hawker Tempest was the RAF’s last great piston-engine warrior—a machine so advanced, it could bring ...

The Hawker Tempest was one of the fastest and most capable piston-engine fighters of the war. It hunted V-1 flying bombs and even engaged early jet fighters. Yet its arrival came just as aviation was ...