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.

Supermarine Spitfire Mk. XIX in 2008

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.

* 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

** Supermarine Spitfire ( Griffon powered variants ) – two-stage Griffon engine variants

** Supermarine Spitfire operational history

** Supermarine Spitfire variants: specifications, performance and armament

** List of Supermarine Spitfire operators

* Supermarine Spiteful ( 1944 ) – replacement for the Spitfire

* Supermarine Type 305 ( 1938 ) – design project for a turret armed derivative of the Spitfire

* Supermarine Type 324 – design project for a twin Merlin engined, tricycle undercarriage fighter based on Spitfire wing and fuselage.

The beer is named after the legendary Supermarine Spitfire aircraft designed by R. J. Mitchell.

The Rolls-Royce Merlin V12 powered the Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire fighters that played a vital role in Britain's victory in the Battle of Britain.

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

Supermarine, manufacturer of the Supermarine Spitfire | Spitfire was a predecessor company of BAE Systems.

Supermarine Spitfire | Spitfires of the No. 352 Squadron RAF | No 352 ( Y ) Squadron RAF before first mission on 18 August 1944, from airport Canne-Italy, Yugoslav Aeronautical Museum

Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm TBF Avenger | Avengers, Supermarine Seafire | Seafires and Fairey Firefly | Fireflies on the deck of HMS Implacable ( R86 ) | HMS Implacable warm up their engines before taking off.

| ref = Supermarine Walrus I & Seagull V Variants

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This Supermarine Spitfire | Spitfire Mk 2A, now owned by the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, was built at Castle Bromwich

Supermarine Walrus being launched from the catapult of HMS Bermuda ( 52 ) | HMS Bermuda ( 1943 )

A Supermarine Seagull ( 1948 ) | Supermarine Seagull amphibian, fitted with a pylon – mounted parasol wing

Image: Supermarine Walrus. jpg | Supermarine Walrus flying boat ( 1933 )

Contra-rotating propellers of a Supermarine Spitfire | Spitfire Mk XIX

* Video of a Supermarine Spitfire | Spitfire PR. XIX Startup by Steve Hinton at Chino, California on YouTube

Supermarine Spitfire VBs of 303 squadron in the " left stairs down " formation, on a combat flight during the Dieppe Raid | Jubilee operation.

No. 54 Squadron Supermarine Spitfire | Spitfire pilots, Richmond, 1942

249 Sqn Supermarine Spitfire | Spitfire VC at RAF Ta Kali, Malta, in 1942.

| ref = Supermarine Aircraft since 1914

In 1971 the museum was given a Supermarine Spitfire XVI by the Ministry of Defence.

* Supermarine Spitfire XVI ( TE462 )

* No. 140 Squadron RAF ( 1943-1944 ) Lockheed Ventura I, Supermarine Spitfire PRVII, XI and IX, de Havilland Mosquito XVI

* Supermarine Spitfire Mk. XVI

Other aircraft in this portion of the museum include a Stearman N2S-3 Kaydet, Curtiss P-40E Warhawk, North American P-51D Mustang, Douglas C-47 ( CD-3 ) Nose and Cockpit section, Messerschmitt Bf 109G-14 ( mock-up ), Supermarine Spitfire Mk. XVI.