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Supermarine and was
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.
This Supermarine Spitfire | Supermarine Spitfire XVI was typical of World War II fighters optimized for high level speeds and good climb rates
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.
The phrase Vickers Supermarine was applied to the aircraft.
The first Supermarine landplane design to go into production was the famous and successful Spitfire.
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.
The last of the Supermarine aircraft was the Scimitar.
The Supermarine operation was closed in 1963 and the Vickers name for aircraft was dropped in 1965.
Reginald Joseph Mitchell CBE, FRAeS, ( 20 May 1895-11 June 1937 ) was a British aeronautical engineer, best known for his design of the Supermarine Spitfire.
He was so highly regarded that, when Vickers took over Supermarine in 1928, one of the conditions was that Mitchell stay as a designer for the next five years.
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.
While the 224 was being built, Mitchell was authorised by Supermarine in 1933 to proceed with a new design, the Type 300, an all-metal monoplane that would become the Supermarine Spitfire.

Supermarine and primarily
RAF Rochford was a satellite station for RAF Hornchurch and was primarily a fighter base, home mainly to Supermarine Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane aircraft.

Supermarine and seaplane
* Supermarine S. 4 ( 1925 ) – Schneider Trophy race seaplane
* Supermarine S. 5 ( 1927 ) – Schneider Trophy race seaplane
* Supermarine S. 6 ( 1929 ) – Schneider Trophy race seaplane
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.
Supermarine Walrus of the RNZAF's seaplane training flight.
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.
Shortly after his return in February 1925, Williams scuppered a plan by Goble to establish a small seaplane base at Rushcutters Bay in Sydney, instead organising purchase of Supermarine Seagulls, the RAAF's first amphibious aircraft, to be based at Richmond.
* Supermarine S. 4, a 1925 British single-engined single-seat monoplane racing seaplane
* Supermarine S. 5, a 1920s British single-engined single-seat racing seaplane

Supermarine and manufacturer
For much of the war their factories were used to build Supermarine Spitfires, after the Supermarine factory in Southampton was bombed out of action during the Battle of Britain ; indeed Westlands built more Spitfires than any other manufacturer.
Roe and Company, one of the world's first aircraft companies ; de Havilland, manufacturer of the world's first commercial jet airliner ; British Aircraft Corporation, co-manufacturer of the Concorde supersonic transport ; Supermarine, manufacturer of the Spitfire ; Yarrow Shipbuilders, builders of the Royal Navy's first destroyers ; and Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering, builders of the Royal Navy's first submarines.
Supermarine, manufacturer of the Supermarine Spitfire | Spitfire was a predecessor company of BAE Systems.

Supermarine and included
New Zealand Article XV Squadrons included No. 485, which flew Supermarine Spitfires throughout the war.
Her cargo included 1, 395 tons of explosives including 238 tons of sensitive " A " explosives, torpedoes, mines, shells, munitions, Supermarine Spitfire fighter aircraft, raw cotton bales, barrels of oil, timber, scrap iron and £ 1 – 2 million of gold bullion in bars in 31 crates.
Other New Zealand squadrons within the RAF included 485, which flew Supermarine Spitfires throughout the war, 486, ( Hawker Hurricanes, Hawker Typhoons and Hawker Tempests ), 487, ( Lockheed Venturas and De Havilland Mosquitoes ), 488, ( Brewster Buffaloes, Hawker Hurricanes, Bristol Beaufighters and De Havilland Mosquitoes ), 489, ( Bristol Blenheims, Bristol Beauforts, Handley Page Hampdens, Bristol Beaufighters, and De Havilland Mosquitoes ), and 490, ( Consolidated Catalinas and Short Sunderlands ).
The few exceptions have included the Yakovlev Yak-15, the Supermarine Attacker, and prototypes such as the Heinkel He 178, the first four prototypes ( V1 through V4 ) of the Messerschmitt Me 262, and the Nene powered version of the Vickers VC. 1 Viking.
About 80 were operated by the navy and included the Supermarine Southampton, Supermarine Walrus, Fairey Seal, and Vought Corsair variants, Consolidated P2Y, and Grumman J2F Duck.
Aircraft using the ADEN 30 as in-built armament have included the A-4S Skyhawk, English Electric Lightning, Folland Gnat ( and HAL Ajeet ), Hawker Hunter, Gloster Javelin, Saab Lansen, Saab Draken, SEPECAT Jaguar, Supermarine Scimitar, and CAC Sabre.
As a presenter he took on the action / adventure role filled by John Noakes and Peter Duncan in the past ; highlights included flying with the Red Arrows and in a World War II Supermarine Spitfire, completing submarine escape training with the Royal Navy, surviving the Bolivian jungle, being attacked by an alligator in Louisiana.

Supermarine and number
Serial number XR222 was one of only three " flight ready " TSR-2s completed, photographed at the Supermarine Spitfire 60th Anniversary Airshow, Duxford, 1996.
The British Supermarine Spitfire used as thin a wing as possible for lower high-speed drag, but later paid a high price for it in a number of aerodynamic problems such as control reversal.
In the United Kingdom, traditionally a maritime nation, a large number of amphibians were built between the wars, starting from 1918 with the Vickers Viking and the early 1920s Supermarine Seagull and were used for exploration and military duties including search and rescue, artillery spotting and anti-submarine patrol.
Biggles has an unusually lengthy career, flying a number of aircraft representative of the history of British military aviation, from Sopwith Camels during World War I, Hawker Hurricanes and Supermarine Spitfires in World War II, right up to the Hawker Hunter jet fighter in a postwar adventure ( Biggles in the Terai ).
The much thinner wing on the Supermarine Spitfire resulted in a Critical Mach number of about 0. 89 for this aircraft.
A number of his works feature the Supermarine Spitfire, Hawker Hurricane and Me109, but they include many other RAF, USAAF and Luftwaffe aircraft and pilots.

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