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* Supermarine S. 6B ( 1931 ) – Schneider Trophy race ( first aircraft over 400 mph )
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* Supermarine S. 4 ( 1925 ) – Schneider Trophy race seaplane
* Supermarine S. 5 ( 1927 ) – Schneider Trophy race seaplane
* Supermarine S. 6 ( 1929 ) – Schneider Trophy race seaplane
* Supermarine 322 also S. 24 / 37 or " Dumbo " ( 1939 )
However, he is best remembered for his work on a series of racing aircraft, which culminated in the Supermarine S. 6B, and the famous Supermarine Spitfire fighter.
The S. 6B was a British racing seaplane developed by Mitchell for the Supermarine company to take part in the Schneider Trophy competition of 1931.
The S. 6B marked the culmination of Mitchell's quest to " perfect the design of the racing seaplane " and was the last in the line of racing seaplanes developed by Supermarine that followed the S. 4, S. 5 and the Supermarine S. 6.
The result was that Royce found that the " R " could be made to produce more power and the Supermarine S. 6B seaplane won the Trophy at on 13 September 1931.
The air races drove engine and airframe development — the Schneider Trophy, for example, led to a series of ever faster and sleeker monoplane designs culminating in the Supermarine S. 6B.
Polish Supermarine Spitfire | Spitfire Mk Vb from the 303 Kościuszko Squadron flown by S / Ldr Zumbach and showing the RF 303 Squadron codes and the individual aircraft letter D-or, when spoken, D-Dog
After the British won in 1927, Trenchard continued to use Air Ministry funds to support the race, including purchasing two Supermarine S. 6 aircraft which won the race in 1929.
Shorts designed the floats used for the Supermarine S. 4 and Gloster III seaplanes entered by Britain for the 1925 Schneider Trophy race.
This was a development subsequent to the R engine, which had powered a record-breaking Supermarine S. 6B seaplane to almost 400 mph in the 1931 Schneider Trophy.
Lt. John Boothman of the RAF High-Speed Flight completes the course at Calshot Spit in Supermarine S. 6B serial S1595 at 547. 297 km / h ( 340. 1 mph ).
Flight Lieutenant S. N. Webster of the United Kingdom wins in a Supermarine S. 5 at an average speed of 453. 2 km / h ( 281. 7 mph ).
Supermarine and .
A similar problem affected some models of the Supermarine Spitfire.
The period of improving the same biplane design over and over was now coming to an end, and the Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire finally started to supplant the Gloster Gladiator and Hawker Fury biplanes but many of the former remained in front-line service well past the start of World War II.
Gun camera film shows tracer ammunition from a Supermarine Spitfire Mark I of No. 609 Squadron RAF, flown by Flight Lieutenant J H G McArthur, hitting a Heinkel He 111 on its starboard quarter.
Supermarine was a British aircraft manufacturer that became famous for producing a range of sea planes and the Supermarine Spitfire fighter.
Its telegraphic address, used for sending telegrams and cables to the company, was ; Supermarine, Southampton.
It produced a couple of prototypes using quadruplane designs to shoot down zeppelins ; the Supermarine P. B. 29 and the Supermarine Nighthawk.
Upon election as an MP in 1916 Pemberton-Billing sold the company to his factory manager and longtime associate Hubert Scott-Paine who renamed the company Supermarine Aviation Works Ltd.
Supermarine Spitfire Mk. XIX in 2008
In 1928 Vickers-Armstrongs took over Supermarine as Supermarine Aviation Works ( Vickers ) Ltd and in 1938 all Vickers-Armstrongs aviation interests were reorganised to become Vickers-Armstrongs ( Aircraft ) Ltd, although Supermarine continued to design, build and trade under its own name.
The phrase Vickers Supermarine was applied to the aircraft.
The first Supermarine landplane design to go into production was the famous and successful Spitfire.
Supermarine also developed the Spiteful and Seafang, the successors of the Spitfire and Seafire, resp., and the Walrus flying boat.
The Supermarine main works was in Woolston, Southampton which led to the city being heavily bombed in 1940.
This curtailed work on their first heavy bomber design, the Supermarine B. 12 / 36 which was replaced by the Short Stirling.
After the end of World War Two, the Supermarine division built the Royal Navy's first jet fighter, the Attacker, which served front line squadrons aboard aircraft carriers and RNVR squadrons at shore bases.
Supermarine and 6B
The improved aircraft Supermarine S. 6B won the trophy, though the technical achievement is slightly tarnished by the fact two S6Bs and an S6 were the only participants.
Supermarine and 1931
* Supermarine Air Yacht ( 1931 ) – six-passenger flying boat
* Supermarine Type 179 ( 1931 )
In 1931, she donated £ 100, 000 to Supermarine, allowing them to win the Schneider Trophy in that year.
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* Joseph Smith ( aircraft designer ) ( 1897 – 1956 ), English aircraft designer who took over as Chief Designer for Supermarine
* Supermarine Nighthawk ( 1917 ) – anti-Zeppelin fighter aircraft
* Supermarine Baby ( 1917 ) – single seat fighter flying boat
* Supermarine Sea Lion I ( 1919 ) – Schneider race flying boat
* Supermarine Channel ( 1919 ) – civil version of the AD Flying Boat
* Supermarine Sea King ( 1920 ) – single seat fighter flying boat
* Supermarine Seagull ( 1921 ) – amphibian Fleet Spotter
* Supermarine Sea Eagle ( 1923 ) – civil amphibian flying boat
* Supermarine Scarab ( 1924 ) – military version of Sea Eagle
* Supermarine Swan ( 1924 ) – experimental amphibian
* Supermarine Sparrow ( 1924 ) – two-seat ultralight
* Supermarine Southampton ( 1925 ) – flying boat
* Supermarine Seamew ( 1928 ) – twin-engined flying boat
* Supermarine Scapa ( 1932 ) – flying boat
* Supermarine Stranraer ( 1932 ) – general-purpose flying boat
* Supermarine Walrus ( 1933 ) – amphibian fleet spotter
* Supermarine Spitfire ( 1936 ) – single seat fighter
** Supermarine Seafire ( 1941 ) – single-seat carrier-based fighter version of the Spitfire
** Supermarine Spitfire ( early Merlin powered variants ) – Merlin engine variants
** Supermarine Spitfire ( late Merlin powered variants ) – two-stage Merlin engine variants
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