Typhoon Ib MN235 at The Royal Air Force Museum London. Initially sent to the USA for evaluation, she was returned to the UK in a ‘swap’ with the Smithsonian. #ww2 #ww2history #warbirds #hawker #typhoon | Daniel J Wheatcroft

Next in our new video series is behind the scenes footage of the Hawker Typhoon 1B aircraft build. Originally designed as a twelve-gun fighter, the Typhoon was intended to be the successor to the Hurricane. It suffered many development problems both with the airframe and its twenty-four cylinder Napier Sabre engine. At the time of its introduction in 1941, it was the first 400mph fighter in the RAF and proved a match for the low level tip-and-run Focke-Wulf Fw190s. It was, however, in the low le

Pacific 'Super Typhoon' set to smash into Philippines with terrifying 220km/h winds as storm suddenly explodes into Category 4 monster By DAILY MAIL REPORTER A devastating 'super typhoon' is rapidly strengthening in the Pacific and is now forecast to become a terrifying Category 4 BEAST, threatening a direct hit on the Philippines early next week. In a terrifying new forecast, the US Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) has warned that Tropical Depression #32W – set to be named 'Uwan' or 'Fung Wo