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The Supermarine Seafang was a British Rolls-Royce Griffon–engined fighter aircraft designed by Supermarine to Air Ministry specification N.5/45 for naval use. It was based on the Spiteful, which was a development of Supermarine's Griffon-engined Spitfire aircraft. By that time the Spitfire was a 10-year-old design in a period of rapid ...
Data from General characteristics Crew: 1 Length: 39 ft 9 in (12.12 m) Wingspan: 43 ft 6 in (13.26 m) Wing area: 335 sq ft (31.1 m 2) Gross weight: 17,250 lb (7,824 kg) Powerplant: 1 × Rolls-Royce Eagle H-24 liquid-cooled piston engine, 3,550 hp (2,650 kW) Propellers: 8-bladed contra-rotating constant-speed propeller See also Related development Supermarine Seafang Supermarine Attacker ...
Spitfire Mk XIIs of 41 Sqn. The final production Mk XII was MB882, "EB-B" (foreground), flown by Flt. Lt. Donald Smith, RAAF. The fixed tailwheel of "EB-H" (third from front) suggests that the airframe was originally a Mk Vc. The Mk XII was the first Spitfire powered by a Griffon engine to go into service.
Supermarine was a British aircraft manufacturer. It is most famous for producing the Spitfire fighter plane during World War II.It also built a range of seaplanes and flying boats, winning the Schneider Trophy for seaplanes with three wins in a row in 1927, 1929 and 1931.
The article says both Spiteful and Attacker were to N.5/45. Seems to contradict, no? Can somebody check & correct? Trekphiler 20:35, 8 March 2008 (UTC) []. They both were - the Seafang (a navalised Spiteful) was the official Supermarine entry for N.5/45 but the experimental jet-engined Jet Spiteful (Attacker) was developed and subsequently ordered in place of the Seafang.
The Rolls-Royce Griffon is a British 37-litre (2,240 cu in) capacity, 60-degree V-12, liquid-cooled aero engine designed and built by Rolls-Royce Limited.In keeping with company convention, the Griffon was named after a bird of prey, in this case the griffon vulture.
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.
Supermarine Seafang 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 .