The Rolls-Royce Griffon engine was designed in answer to Royal Navy specifications for an engine capable of generating good power at low altitudes. Concepts for adapting the Spitfire to take the new engine had … 展开

The Mark numbers used in the aircraft designations did not necessarily indicate a chronological order; for example, the Mk IX was a stopgap measure brought into production before the Mks VII and VIII. Some Spitfires of one mark or variant may have been modified to … 展开

General characteristics
• Crew: 1
• Length: 32 ft 8 in (9.96 m)
• Wingspan: 36 ft 10 in (11.23 m) (full span elliptical tips)
• Height: 10 ft 0 in (3.05 m) 展开

• The Spitfire Site Archived 17 August 2020 at the Wayback Machine
• Alan Le Marinel hosts Supermarine Spitfire
• Spitfire Performance Testing
• Spitfire, Warbird Alley – Information about Spitfires still flying … 展开

The majority of Spitfires from the Mk VIII used C, D and E wing types. Unless otherwise noted, all Griffon-engined Spitfire variants used the strengthened Dunlop AH10019 … 展开

After the destruction of the main Itchen and Woolston works by the Luftwaffe in September 1940, all Supermarine manufactured Spitfires were built in a number of " 展开

• Military history of the United Kingdom during World War II
• Rolls-Royce Merlin and Griffon
Related development
• Seafire
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