Hawker tempest prototypes

[Justo Miranda]

Hawker tempest prototypes

 

[Arjen]

Images of annular cowled Tempest and Typhoon here:

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/napier-sabre-engines.11807/#post-114558

 

[Antonio]

Gorgeus drawings to an extreme interesting subject which is all that design effort at Hawker. Thanks again Mr Miranda for sharing your indefatigable talent with us.

 

[Justo Miranda]

 

[Foo Fighter]

Thank you, marvelous as ever.

 

[Deltafan]

Hi,

on the Tempest's French Wikipedia page,

Hawker Tempest — Wikipédia

fr.wikipedia.org

is wrote :

• Hawker Tempest PW2800 : Un prototype intérimaire du Tempest équipé du moteur en étoile Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp. Cette version fut développée en raison du manque de fiabilité du moteur Sabre et de l'indisponibilité du Bristol Centaurus.

Hawker Tempest PW2800: An interim prototype of the Tempest fitted with the Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp radial engine. This version was developed due to the unreliability of the Saber engine and the unavailability of the Bristol Centaurus.

I have never seen this version of the plane anywhere.

Is this fake news? And if not, does anyone on the forum have a photo or image or any other info on this device?

 

[Apophenia]

Perhaps confusing Tempest development with one of the briefly-considered Tornado engine options?

There was a Hawker scheme for alternative engines for the Tornado airframe which included the Bristol Centaurus (ultimately fitted to P5224), Fairey Monarch, and an American radial. Some sources mistakenly say 'R-2800' but most say Wright Duplex Cyclone (R-3350). That concept died in July 1941 by which time Tornado prototype contracts were being slid over to the Tempest.

There is a Tempest II restoration which swapped the Centaurus for a R-2800, which gives an idea of what an R-2800-engined Tempest might have look like ...

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[Deltafan]

Hi,

Yes, thanks to Google search, I knew this today's Tempest with R-2800

Canada: roll-out du Hawker Tempest Mk II MW376 – L’Echarpe Blanche

www.lecharpeblanche.fr

But indeed. A confusion between a current project and what may have happened during WW2 is possible. I admit I didn't think about it