Stingray (1964 TV series) "P.W.O.R." – short for "Proceeding With Orders Received". "Stingray" is piloted by the square-jawed Captain Troy Tempest. He is paired with Southern navigator Lieutenant George Lee Sheridan, nicknamed "Phones" for his role as "Stingray"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s hydrophone operator. Troy and Phones board "Stingray" by sitting on twin injector seats in Marineville's stand-by lounge, which are lowered into the vessel via injector tubes and then clamped into place. They answer to the crusty "hoverchair"-bound Commander Sam Shore, whose daughter, Lieutenant Atlanta Shore, takes shifts in the Marineville control tower and is enamoured of Troy. At the start of the series, the WASP learns
Hawker Tempest to see service during the Second World War. Continual problems with the Sabre IV meant that only the single Tempest Mk.I ("HM599") was built; consequently, Hawker proceeded to take the Sabre II-equipped "Tempest V" into production instead. In August 1942, even before the first flight of the prototype Tempest V had been conducted, a production order for 400 Tempests was placed by the Air Ministry. This order was split, with the initial batch of 100 being Tempest V "Series I"s, powered by the 2,235 hp (1,491 kW) Sabre IIA series engine, which had the distinctive chin radiator, while the rest