Do you know that there were strikes on the Hawker factory?
So instead of two wings, the RAF had only one wing of Tempest…
And sometimes the wing’s planes were below the theoretical number…
Even in the end of the war, sometimes, instead of a squadron of 12 aircrafts, the Tempests flews the famous Malta formation, the “Fluid Six” composed by two + two + two…
( The woman you see below, wah a RAF pilot’s wife…
The unions demanded that she be fired, and the Hawker was forced to make her change her job on the factory )