A straight-forward 24 km flight from Asch (in Holland) to attack a German train travelling between Vise and Tongeren (both in Belgium).
The aircraft is a Hawker Typhoon Mk.1b.
It was a relatively late entrant into the War and was powered with a very powerful engine - a Napier Sabre 2180 hp engine, which gave the aircraft a top speed of 663 km/hr (very fast for the 1940's!!).
The aircraft was armed with 4 x 20cm cannon (very lethal/effective!) and was usually armed with bombs and/or rockets (usually 8 x high-explosive, or armour-piercing, rockets).
In this video, I make three attacks on a train using my 4 x 20 cm cannon and 8 x high-explosive rockets.
I achieved limited success - causing the locomotive to uncouple from its wagons - with light damage to the locomotive but destroying 2 -3 wagons.
Although I get hit by flak coming up from the train, the damage to my aircraft is negligible.
Aiming UNGUIDED rockets isn't easy and takes a lot of practice (one needs to aim high because the drop-off in the rockets' trajectories occurs rapidly).
22 июн 2021
