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 Tempest Pilot's Stories

 

 

- Tempests 1947-1949  **NEW!!**

Copyright Rufus Heald

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- Joe Berry; the forgotten Ace 

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- Notes from Flight Officer Gilbert Wild 

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- Jim Raymond remembers flying Hawker Tempest II in Pakistan.

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- On the background to the book, The Big Circus (Le Grande Cirque).

An interview with a Free Frenchman, Mr. Clostermann.

Copyright Alexandre Jaeg

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- My search for Ralph - The Canadian Connection.

Copyright John Colton

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- The Beamont Files

Copyright Newark Air Museum
Photos Newark Air Museum Archive via R Beamont

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- BATTLE DAMAGE!

Copyright © BHARAT RAKSHAK

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- The Catter Pillar Club

Copyright of Air Vice Marshal C V Parker, MVC, VM , Indian Air Force
Procured Via Bharat Rakshak

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- Jack Stafford Stories

Copyright Flight Lieutenant Jack Stafford DFC 486 (NZ) Sqn

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- He routed the Doodlebugs - A story about Squadron Leader Joseph Berry

Via Graham Berry

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- Testing for combat

Via Øyvind Meisfjord

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 Misc. Tempest Stories

 
 
- Tempest victory on 15 April 1945 in Kaltenkirchen **NEW!!**
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- Goering's Tempest 

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- The Greatest Engines of All Time by LJK Setright

One of the highlights of ETi's Unusual Engines series, for the late LJK Setright, there was no better motor than the Napier Sabre. Reproduced with kind permission of UKIP Media & Events Ltd

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- Olaf Ramien read the story "Bill Balmforth, parachute packer"

And was moved by Stark and his destiny. He went to the Cemetery and took these photos.

Copyright Olaf Ramien

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- Leading Aircraftman Walter Reed

Copyright Walter Reed

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- A Tempest nut in Paris

Copyright Christer Landberg

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- The Electronic War and the Tempest

Copyright Graham Berry

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- The Berrys' visit to Holland

Copyright Graham Berry

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- The Napier Sabre - the apotheosis of the high-performance piston engine

Copyright Mike Le Brocq

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- Bill Balmforth, parachute packer

Copyright Graham Berry

Photos Bill Balmforth

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- Graham's Strange Objects

Copyright Graham Berry

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- An unusual Tempest

Copyright Yvonne and John van den Brink

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- Tempest Comic

Via Johan Svennberg

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