The Hawker Tempest is a British fighter aircraft primarily used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) in the Second World War.
The Tempest, originally known as the Typhoon II, was an improved derivative of the Hawker Typhoon,
intended to address the Typhoon's unexpected fall-off of performance at high altitude
by replacing its wing with a thinner laminar flow design.
The Tempest emerged as one of the most powerful fighters of World War II
and was the fastest single-engine propeller-driven aircraft of the war at low altitude. Wikipedia.