Though plans for a Spitfire fitted with an arrester hook and folding wings were made in 1939, ... Supermarine Spitfire Mk Vb s/n BL687 converted to a Seafire IB.

Spitfire played a key role and provided air superiority in the Battle of Malta in Northern Africa, Sicily, and Italy. They also paved the way for the D-Day in Normandy.

Vickers Supermarine's initial submission was not successful, but through a series of prototypes and improvements (one being the implementation of Rolls-Royce's PV-XII V12 engine), the soon-to-be ...

The engine in the Supermarine Spitfire was a Rolls-Royce Merlin that eventually went into America's P-51 Mustang, as well. It had a lot of power.

The Spitfire was outfitted with a powerhouse engine: a Rolls-Royce Merlin, 27-liter, V-12 piston engine.In later versions, the Merlin could produce up to 2,000 horsepower. With a two-stage, two ...

Last September the auction house sold a non-airworthy 1945 Supermarine Spitfire for a record price of £1.1 million. This was a “Bubble Canopy” MK XVI, considered by collectors as being less ...

The Spitfire was designed by Reginald Mitchell at the Supermarine factory in Woolston, Southampton The prototype was first flown from Eastleigh Aerodrome, now Southampton Airport, on 6 March 1936 ...

The Spitfire was designed as a short-range, high-performance interceptor aircraft by R. J. Mitchell, chief designer at Supermarine Aviation Works (which operated as a subsidiary of Vickers ...

The Spitfire’s Surprising Role in World War II: More Than Just a Fighter Apart perhaps from the B-17 “Flying Fortress,” no other World War II aircraft is as famous as the Supermarine Spitfire.