Supermarine Type 224
The Supermarine 224 was a British design for a fighter aircraft presented by Reginald Joseph Mitchell of the Royal Air Force as part of an application for a new fighter aircraft in 1934.
The Type 224 was the first aircraft to bear the name "Spitfire", although it had marked differences to the known later aircraft from the same manufacturer. With gull wings and a landing gear that can not be retracted in the first draft , this is a common feature with the first draft of the Hawker Hurricane . According to the tender, the aircraft was powered by a Rolls-Royce Goshawk with around 600 hp and was armed with 4 machine guns.
The development took place as an application for the specification F7 / 30 from 1930. This order had examined Supermarine, Westland, Boulton & Paul, Parnell and Blackburn and led to an order for a prototype from Westland, Blackburn and Supermarine. It was expected that Gloster, Hawker, Armstrong Withworth and Bristol would participate at their own risk. The construction contract for the F7 / 30 went to the Gloster Aircraft Company with the Gladiator model , the last fighter biplane of the Royal Air Force.
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- ^ MM Postan, D. Hay, JD Scott: Design and Development of Weapons , 1964, p. 88