Websites could and should be so much more
100 years ago the first fighter plane used by the new Royal Air Force was the legendary Sopwith Camel. It could climb at a rate of nearly six metres per second, was armed with machine guns and had a maximum speed of a little over 100mph. The Eurofighter Typhoon on the other hand, which is set to become today’s dominant RAF interceptor, can climb at around 315 metres per second, is armed with multiple guns, missiles and bombs and has a top speed of Mach 2.3.
