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  2. Supermarine Spitfire variants: specifications, performance ...

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    The Spitfire was also adopted for service on aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy; in this role they were renamed Supermarine Seafire. Although the first version of the Seafire, the Seafire Ib, was a straight adaptation of the Spitfire Vb, successive variants incorporated much needed strengthening of the basic structure of the airframe and ...

  3. Supermarine Speed Spitfire - Wikipedia

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    In 1937 the idea was raised of attempting a new world landplane speed record with a modified Spitfire. At the time the record of 352 mph (566 km/h) was held by Howard Hughes flying a Hughes H-1 racing aircraft.

  4. Supermarine Spitfire (Griffon-powered variants) - Wikipedia

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    Spitfire XIV of 350 (Belgian) Squadron of the Spitfire XIV wing based at Lympne, Kent 1944. This aircraft is carrying a 30 gal "slipper" drop tank under the centre-section. The first Griffon-powered Spitfires suffered from poor high altitude performance due to having only a single stage supercharged engine. By 1943, Rolls-Royce engineers had ...

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  6. Supermarine Spitfire - Wikipedia

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    Audio recording of Spitfire fly-past at the 2011 family day at RAF Halton, Buckinghamshire Supermarine Spitfire G-AWGB landing at Biggin Hill Airport, June 2024. The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft used by the Royal Air Force and other Allied countries before, during, and after World War II.

  7. Supermarine Aircraft Spitfire - Wikipedia

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    Data from Supermarine Aircraft General characteristics Length: 23 ft 9 in (7.24 m) Wingspan: 27 ft 8 in (8.43 m) Height: 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) Wing area: 122 sq ft (11.3 m 2) Empty weight: 992 lb (450 kg) Gross weight: 1,785 lb (810 kg) Powerplant: 1 × General Motors-Isuzu V-6 liquid-cooled piston engine, 226 hp (169 kW) Propellers: 3-bladed Ivoprop composite propeller Performance Maximum speed ...

  8. Supermarine Spitfire (early Merlin-powered variants) - Wikipedia

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    At the time the record of 352 mph (566 km/h) was held by Howard Hughes flying a Hughes H-1 racing aircraft. [nb 6] Although an early Spitfire I was capable of 362 mph (583 km/h), this was at a full-throttle height of 16,800 ft (5,100 m); the regulations for the world speed record demanded that the aircraft fly a 1.86-mile (2.99 km) course at an ...

  9. Aircraft engine controls - Wikipedia

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    Many modern aircraft use single-lever power control (SLPC) system, where on-board computer automatically manages the propeller speed based on the desired power setting and operational conditions. The output power from the propeller is equal to a product of propeller efficiency and input power from the engine.

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