SUPERMARINE Aircraft Manual PDF

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Supermarine Aviation Works is a British aircraft manufacturing company that has created a number of seaplanes participating in the Schneider Cup, as well as the famous WW2 fighter - Supermarine Spitfire.

The company was originally founded in 1913 by Noel Pimberton Billing in Woolston under the name Pemberton-Billing, Ltd. At that time, the company was a small company engaged in the repair of marine aircraft.

At this very time, the company produced two prototype interceptor hydroplanes designed to destroy the Zeppelins. These prototypes were Supermarine P.B.29 and Supermarine Nighthawk.

On the first, a Davis recoilless gun was installed, and the second had a generator that generated electricity for a powerful searchlight.

After Pimberton Billing was elected to parliament in 1916, he sold the company to his production manager and longtime companion, Hubert Scott Payne.

He renamed the company into Supermarine Aviation Works, Ltd, which reflected the main direction of production of the company.

At the same time, in 1928, Vickers-Armstrongs established financial control over the company, renaming Supermarine Aviation Works (Vickers), Ltd and turning it into a subsidiary.

But the company continued to be nominally independent.

Even when Vickers-Armstrongs was reorganized and the group's aviation units were turned into Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd, Supermarine continued to develop, build and sell aircraft under its own name.

Spitfire became the first well-known ground plane of the company, which together with Hawker Hurricane formed the basis of the British fighter aircraft during the WW2.

In 1937, Mitchell died of cancer at the age of 43, and Joseph Smith became his successor as chief designer, who brought all subsequent modifications to the company's most famous design.

1960 abolished.