Supermarine Spiteful

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title: Supermarine Spiteful
text: The Supermarine Spiteful was a British fighter aircraft designed by Supermarine during the Second World War as a successor to the Spitfire. Powered by a Rolls-Royce Griffon engine, it had a radical new wing design to allow safe operations at higher speeds and incorporating inwards-retracting undercarriage. Other changes included a larger fin to improve the marginal stability of Griffon Spitfires. Development of the wing was formalised by Air Ministry specification F.1/43; as well as a new aircra
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description: 1944 British fighter aircraft
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarine_Spiteful
date created: 2005-06-04T10:44:38Z
date modified: 2024-09-07T09:25:59Z
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