Supermarine Attacker

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Supermarine Attacker
Supermarine Attacker
Type: Fighter plane
Design country:

United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom

Manufacturer:

Super marine

First flight:

July 27, 1946

Commissioning:

August 1951

Number of pieces:

182 + 3

The Supermarine Attacker was the Royal Navy's first jet fighter .

History and construction

The design is based on the Vickers-Supermarine E.10 / 44 Strahl-Spiteful , which was originally a land-based fighter, but has been replaced by the competing Gloster Meteor and de Havilland DH.100 Vampire . The result was an airborne fighter that flew for the first time on June 17, 1947. The jet engine is located in the fuselage, the air inlet openings are next to the cockpit . The wings are slightly swept, as is the horizontal stabilizer. The rudder unit has a stronger sweep. The machine went into service with the Royal Navy under the name Vickers-Supermarine Attacker F.Mk.1 . A total of 60 machines were sold, and another 36 went to the Pakistani Air Force in 1952/53 .

Military use

Technical specifications

Three-sided view of the attacker
Parameter Data
crew 1
length 11.43 m
span 11.25 m
height 3.02 m
Wing area 21 m²
Empty mass 3826 kg
Max. Takeoff mass 5539 kg
Top speed 949 km / h
Service ceiling 13,715 m
Range 1915 km
Engines 1 × Rolls-Royce Nene jet engine with 2313 kp thrust
Armament 4 × 20 mm Hispano-Suiza HS.404 cannons in the wings

See also

literature

  • Andrews, CF and EB Morgan: Supermarine Aircraft since 1914 . London: Putnam, 1987. ISBN 0-85177-800-3 .
  • Bingham, Victor: Supermarine Fighter Aircraft . Ramsbury, UK: The Crowood Press, 2004. ISBN 1-86126-649-9 .
  • Birtles, Philip: Supermarine Attacker, Swift and Scimitar (Postwar Military Aircraft 7) . London: Ian Allan, 1992. ISBN 0-7110-2034-5 .
  • Buttler, Tony: "Database: Supermarine Attacker". Airplane . Vol. 38, no. 8, Issue 448, August 2010, pp. 54-71. London: IPC.

Web links

Commons : Supermarine Attacker  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft