Supermarine Spiteful, a fighter intended to replace the Spitfire, but made obsolete by jet aircraft
The new wing was fitted to a modified Spitfire XIV NN660, in order to make a direct comparison with the earlier elliptical wing, and was first flown on 30 June 1944 by Jeffrey Quill.
Supermarine Seafire | Supermarine Walrus | Supermarine Swift | Supermarine Spitfire (late Merlin powered variants) | Supermarine Spitfire (Griffon powered variants) | Supermarine Spiteful | Supermarine Sea Otter | Supermarine Scimitar | Supermarine S.6B | Supermarine Attacker | Spiteful-class destroyer |