71 Years Ago Today

[Dr H]

The Supermarine Spiteful had it's maiden flight.

Impressive plane The Mk16 made 494 mph. Never saw operational service though.

[KurtB]

Wow Leigh, that's an obscure anniversary! I'm glad you reminded me of it though, it certainly was potent but arrived at the wrong time. The world was just introducing jets and I'm led to believe that the Spiteful (and it's Naval derivative, the Seafang) donated their wings to the later interim Naval fighter, the Supermarine Attacker. Check it out, it must have been superb from clearing snow from aircraft carrier decks...

[Dr H]

I pick up most of this stuff on my brother's twitter feed, he seems to notice this sort of stuff.

 

The attacker was a strange looking thing

 

[theelanman]

I bet that melted some tarmac.....lol

[Mne666]

I love the early jets and how they just bolted a jet into a piston airframe, the Percival provost was a similar thing