[Oztrich Boy]

The WWII British Typhoon was a loser, too.

Try and get confirmation of that from the German army forces at Faliase Gap

Even before then

Late 1941, Battle Luftwaffe tried low level high speed raids against Southern England by Fw-190s. Result: Fail. Reason The Typhoon

42/43. RAF low level high speed raids against Northern France. how? The Typhoon

1944 prior to D-Day strikes against the Greman communication system. 150 locomotives destroyed a month. The Typhoon

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

The Typhoon was originally intended as an intercepter I think, and in its originally intended role, it was a failure, but a spectacular success in its adapted role as a CAS plane, probably THE best of the war...

[jim_trent]

The original use of the Typhoon was intended as an interceptor. It had several problems that prevented it from being used for that, though. Its tail had a habit of falling off during the stress of dogfighting. It also had a compressibility problem between the thick wing and wide air intake low on the engine. That gave strange handling at times and could actually stall the engine. There were numerous other “small’ problems that could kill its pilot as dead as the enemy. The main problem was trying to marry a much larger, more powerful engine to a much older airframe (primarily because of the thick wings) and not properly beefing it up where required..

When it failed its original intent, the Typhoon was pressed into service as whatever it could be used for. Low altitude interceptor was one. Not much manuvering there. You just need a big engine. It did have a big engine.

Then it became a ground attack machine. As a personal note, it seems like every warplane I read about that has failed to live up to its intent and/or has outlived its usefulness, is pressed into ground attack use. They seem to be considered disposable, unfortunately for their pilots. The Typhoon was not ideal for that either, with the big wide air intake, housing the radiators, which were very vunerable to ground fire.

Anyway, the Brits finally got it pretty much right when they replaced the Typhoon with the Tempest. It is what the Typhoon was intended to be, but failed. The Typhoon was never a great airplane in spite of the occasional successes you note.