Hawker Typhoon 1B: The Hawker Typhoon 1B was initially designed as a twelve gun fighter. The Hawker Typhoon was the successor of the Hurricane aircraft. A lot of development problems were encountered by the Hawker Typhoon both with its air frame and its twenty four cylinder Napier Sabre engine. When the Hawker Typhoon 1B was introduced in 1941, it was the first 400mph fighter in the RAF, however, the Hawker Typhoon 1B was in the low level close support role. From August 1942, the Hawker Typhoon began offensive sweeps over France, Belgium and Holland as it attacked opponent airfields and communications. In 1944, the 2nd Tactical Air Force built more Typhoon Squadrons, thus, the Hawker Typhoon 1B reached its fame as a tank destroyer. During the European campaign, the Hawker Typhoon flew in position patrols known as cab ranks awaiting calls from ground forces to formulate instantaneous strikes against any German targets which lay in the path of Allied Troops. The Hawker Typhoon 1B was equipped with 30 squadrons. A great deal of work load had been done so that the Hawker Typhoon could carry an excellent variety of external stores, either 1000lb bombs or sixteen three inch rocket projectiles. The Hawker Typhoon 1B was to excel in a series of extraordinary set piece assaults on German airfields, radar sites, gun emplacements, and road and rail targets. This model has measurements of: Span: 12 1/8" Len: 14 7/8" and Scale: 1/40