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[Kazegami]

I was browsing Wikipedia some days ago and I came across this interesting page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarine_Spiteful
The words "successor to the Spitfire" and "494 mph" immediately caught my attention.












Cockpit looks almost exactly like the Spitfire.

http://www.military.cz/british/air/war/fighter/spiteful/spiteful_en.htm
http://1000aircraftphotos.com/APS/2918.htm
http://www.classicwarbirds.co.uk/british-aircraft-of-ww2/supermarine-spiteful.php
http://www.aviastar.org/air/england/supermarine_spiteful.php
http://freespace.virgin.net/john.dell/spits.htm#spiteful
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarine_Spiteful

The Supermarine Spiteful was a British Rolls-Royce Griffon-engined fighter aircraft designed by Supermarine to Air Ministry specification F.1/43 during the Second World War as a successor to the Spitfire. The Spiteful featured new laminar flow wings, inward retracting wide track undercarriage, larger tail plane and re-designed fuselage. With the advent of jet propulsion, however, the future of high-performance fighters was clearly with the jet fighter, and so the order was later cancelled with only a handful of Spitefuls built.

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Role: Fighter
Manufacturer: Supermarine
Designed by: Joe Smith
First flight: 30 June 1944
Status: Out of service
Primary user: Royal Air Force
Number built: 19 (2 prototypes and 17 production)
Developed from: Supermarine Spitfire
Variants: Supermarine Seafang
Supermarine Attacker
Variants:

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Spiteful F Mk 14 - 19 built (two prototypes and 17 production)

Spiteful F Mk 15 - one built - converted to Seafang prototype

Spiteful F Mk 16 - two built - simple, three-speed Griffon conversions from F Mk 14s

Seafang F.Mk 31 - eight built

Seafang F.Mk 32 - 10 built

Attacker - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarine_Attacker
Specs (Mk 14):

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Crew: One
Length: 32 ft 11 in (10.03 m)
Wingspan: 35 ft 0 in (10.67 m)
Height: 13 ft 5 in (4.09 m)
Wing area: 210 ft² (19.5 m²)
Empty weight: 7,350 lb (3,331 kg)
Max takeoff weight: 9,950 lb (4,523 kg)
Powerplant: 1 × Rolls-Royce Griffon 69 V-12 engine, 2,375 hp (1,772 kW)

Maximum speed: 483 mph (420 knots, 778 km/h) at 21,000 ft (6,400 m)
Range: 564 mi (490 nmi, 908 km)
Service ceiling: 42,000 ft (12,800 m)
Rate of climb: 4,890 ft/min (24.8 m/s)
Specs (Mk 16):

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Empty weight: 7,350 lb (3,331 kg)
Max takeoff weight: 9,950 lb (4,513 kg)
Powerplant: Griffon 101 - 2,420 hp (1,805 kW)
Max Speed: 494 mph (795 km/h)
Armament:

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Guns: 4 × 20 mm (.79 in) Hispano Mk V cannons
Rockets: 8-12 × 3inch "60 lb" rocket projectiles
Bombs: 2 × 1,000 lb (450 kg) bombs

[Radoye]

+1

[ANDYTOTHED]

there was a naval version too, the seafang

[Kazegami]

bump

[Roger Smith]

wow, doesn't look much different than the F8F Bearcat, I guess the design is the best.

[Sharkzz]

miss the spitefull, a lovely plane,

[razor1uk]

This ended up being the last distillation of wartime Spitfire skill, knowldege & research into a few drops of Spitfuls & Seafangs. Also it would make a lovelier skin hack for a Lautern J-2 Skyly with almost undeneyable closeness if it were given thunderbolt style fuz to fit internal ducts & turbo systems

[KuupoLOL]

Try this:
https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,18807

[Rock]

[ANDYTOTHED]

I'd really love to know what else you have on your hard drive Rock

[Rock]

[mojojojo]

there is that 3-view of an israeli one. did israel use it?