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Audio recording of Spitfire fly-past at the 2011 family day at RAF Halton, Buckinghamshire Supermarine Spitfire G-AWGB landing at Biggin Hill Airport, June 2024. The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft used by the Royal Air Force and other Allied countries before, during, and after World War II. It was the only ...
The Spitfire was also adopted for service on aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy; in this role they were renamed Supermarine Seafire. Although the first version of the Seafire, the Seafire Ib, was a straight adaptation of the Spitfire Vb, successive variants incorporated much needed strengthening of the basic structure of the airframe and ...
Media related to Supermarine Spitfire Mark 22 at Wikimedia Commons. Spitfire F.22 of No. 613 (City of Manchester) Squadron in 1949. The Mk 22 was identical to the Mk 21 in all respects except for the cut-back rear fuselage, with the tear-drop canopy, and a more powerful 24 volt electrical system in place of the 12 volt system of all earlier ...
The specification, essentially an addendum to specification F.7/30 mentioning Supermarines specification 425a and drawing, [17] led on to the design of the Supermarine Spitfire. [18] Supermarine had asked the Air Ministry for the name Spitfire to be reserved for the type. [6]
The final development of the Spitfire was the Supermarine Spiteful and its naval version the Supermarine Seafang which retained a Spitfire-like fuselage, married to a new straight-tapered laminar flow wing, which gave Smith the opportunity to fit a wide-track inward-retracting undercarriage. [9]
Supermarine began development of the Type 300 in 1934, as a private venture following the unsuccessful Type 224 prototype. [1] Chief designer R. J. Mitchell and his team took the Type 224 as their starting point and continued to draw on their experience with the Schneider Trophy seaplanes.
The Supermarine Spiteful was a British fighter aircraft designed by Supermarine during the Second World War as a successor to the Spitfire.Powered by a Rolls-Royce Griffon engine, it had a radical new wing design to allow safe operations at higher speeds and incorporating inwards-retracting undercarriage.
Toggle Design and development subsection. 1.1 Origins. 1.2 Design. ... Supermarine Spitfire: Number built: 8,108 The Rolls-Royce Griffon is a British 37-litre (2,240 ...