Team Typhoon

Team Typhoon was a team made up of cadets of the 870 Squadron from the Air Training Corps who entered a number of different robots in Robot Wars. The aim of these machines was to raise interest in engineering among young cadets, with the various degrees of proficiency going in different weight categories: the least experienced would work on the featherweight, and the most experienced working on the heavyweight. The team's robots were all cone-shaped full-body spinners, painted to resemble the RAF crest. The team had a heavyweight champion named Typhoon 2, three-time middleweight champion called Typhoon and a middleweight clusterbot named Typhoon Twins (which consisted of the team's lightweight champion, Typhoon Thunder, and its partner, Typhoon Lightning) and a featherweight called Typhoon Cadet.

On a side note, like many Robot Wars competitors, the Air Cadets also entered Techno Games with Typhoon Rover, a small box shaped robot. It won its event, The Assault Course, the final against Mighty Mouse. The team also entered the football event with Typhoon Rover and a modified Typhoon called Typhoon 870 which acted as the goalkeeper.

The Team
The various members of Team Typhoon were engineering students, whose proficiency level dictated the machine that they designed, built and fought with.

Typhoon & Typhoon 2:Flying Officer (F.O.) Peter Bennett, Corporal Gary Cairns and Cadet Hazel Taylor were the team that drove Typhoon in the Middleweight melee in Extreme 1. Hazel was replaced by Sergeant Graeme Horne, who joined the team (than drove Typhoon and Typhoon 2) for Extreme 2 and Series 7.
 * Typhoon Twins: Neil Harrison, Alistair Mcleod and Keri Scott drove Typhoon Twins, who faced Typhoon in the Extreme 2 Middleweight final
 * Typhoon Thunder: Keri was alongside Martin Armistead and Amy Drinkwater in the team of Lightweight champion Typhoon Thunder.
 * Typhoon Cadet: Young female air cadets drove Typhoon Cadet in the Featherweight tournament of Series 7. They were never named on the televised competition, but Corporal Cairns stated that young female cadets were in charge of the team's featherweight.

Wins & Losses

 * Wins: 13
 * Losses: 4

Series Record

 * Series 1-4: Did not enter
 * Extreme 1: Middleweight Champions with Typhoon
 * Series 5-6: Did not enter
 * Extreme 2: Middleweight Champions with Typhoon and Lightweight Champions with Typhoon Thunder
 * Series 7: Grand Champions with Typhoon 2 and Middleweight Champions with Typhoon