RedBaron is right...and I say that even though I'm a great Typhoon fan !

Due to its design, the Typhoon needed to attack in a shallow, not steep, dive, and those early RP's were just not that accurate. Don't forget, though, that that battery of 20mm Hispano's was pretty useful, too.

As with that other classic ground-attack aircraft of WWII, the Suka, the 'psychological' point shouldn't be overlooked. The sound of the Typhoon's Sabre engine at full power was said to be terrifying ( something we can't hear today, alas...) and being 'under the guns'', both RPs and 20mm, must have been a stressful experience for exhausted soldiers fleeing Normandy....

The Typhoons played a major role in the battle, took very severe losses while doing so, and rightly will always be synonymous with 'Rocket Firing Typhoons At The Falaise Gap' ! [img]graemlins/vc.gif[/img]

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