JD Oughton was on the first Typhoon squadron. He told me they found the torque frightening and his flight commander was killed when he crashed into a hangar on take off. A ferry pilot delivered a new machine to the airfield and JD questioned him about its characteristics. To his surprise the elderly ex WWI pilot said he found little difficulty apart from the forward view. He explained that on take off the stick should be slightly aft and the rudder pedals centralised. The brute was now tamed and largely without swing.. A little later they found that performance at altitude was poor and there were a number of structural failures, luckily cured by a stiffening band at the rear of the fuselage.