In designing a heavily-armed yet aerodynamic aircraft, one of Supermarine's most important considerations was that of material and form factor. The approach was to limit sharp angles and to ...

The Supermarine Spitfire endures today as one of the legendary fighter planes of World War II & is the most famous British ...

During the Battle of Britain, perhaps the most fraught moment in the UK’s history, the Spitfire performed admirably.

The Spitfire was designed as a short-range, high-performance interceptor aircraft by R. J. Mitchell, chief designer at Supermarine Aviation Works (which operated as a subsidiary of Vickers ...

Supermarine Spitfire Jeff Ethell’s Pireps. Jeff Ethell January 1995. Get our newsletter! Get ... If everything is done correctly, the Spitfire is one of the easiest aircraft to start.

Backed by 100,000 pounds from Houston (and renewed participation by an embarrassed British government), Supermarine entered six aircraft in the race—two S.5s (including No. 220, which won at ...

The engine in the Supermarine Spitfire was a Rolls-Royce Merlin that eventually went into America's P-51 Mustang, as well. It had a lot of power.

A Supermarine Spitfire Mark 1A of RAF Squadron 19 being re-armed between sorties at Fowlmere, Cambridgeshire in 1940. ... the Spitfire became the principal aircraft of RAF Fighter Command.

Look no further than this 80 percent scale replica Spitfire for sale via K-aircraft Jets & Props out of Schwabmunchen in Germany. This particular build, completed in 2005, is part of a production ...

Supermarine Spitfire is one of the most notorious WWII warbirds, ... RAF didn't need that many aircraft anymore. Thus, 136 Spitfire MK IXs were sold to South African Air Force in 1948, and TD134, ...

Supermarine, with new technologies at the ready, was tasked with building an aircraft for the moment. In the mid to late 1930s, that moment called for defense of the British Isles, with Germany ...