A Short History: The Hawker Tempest - WWII's Pivotal Fighter 

just got the airfix of this plane and now after watching this, it is one of my most faveroute planes.

French Tempest V ace pilot Pierre Closterman describes the friendly wartime rivalry beetween RAF Tempest and Spitfire pilots. A common joke on jointly used RAF airfields was that the landing speed of the Tempest was higher that the cruising speed of the Spitfire... On one occasion apparently a Spitfire spotted a German Arado 234 reconnaissance jet aircraft flying at treetop height and managed to shoot it down diving flat-out from above, popping rivets in the process. Later in the mess Spit pilots being triumphant, saying "that's something you've never managed to do in your "lead sleds" (literally "lead dogs, "chiens de plomb" in French), meaning the rather heavy Tempests. Though the Tempests did shoot down a number of Messerschmitt Me262 jet fighters on "rat-catching" missions, mainly by ambushing them in their landing phase when they were the most vulnerable. Late in the war the Germans mounted standing patrols over the Mer262's airfields consisting of Focke-Wulf FW190 D models with red and black stripes under the wings.

I liked the allied aircraft over the German Me 262s.

Incredible advancements in aircrafts from 1940-'45