Typhoon with a slightly less crappy engine? Boo. WAY too much wing for the job, as the Brits were wont to do. It's pretty, sure, but with that much HP, it should have been breaking high alt records. As it stood, while it had a great low alt performance, it got passed by clapped out three year old 51s with much poorer "paper performance" when at altitude. And the Typhoon/Tempest even failed at low alt to be the FW killer it was supposed to be. It was quite a bit faster, yes, but while its instantaenous AND sustained turns were much better than the 190, its roll sucked. Couple of rapid rolls, a dive away, and Mr. Wulf was a dot on the canopy while Flight Leftentant Windsor was wildly clawing at the sky to point in the right damn direction. There's a reason that the tempest racers you see have their wings WILDLY clipped. Typhoon/Tempest is as much a testament to what can be done WRONG with the RIGHT equipment as the FW190 is a testament to what can be done RIGHT with the WRONG equipment. Hell, the 190s engine was supposed to be hung on a bomber.
