Supermarine Spitfire and Seafire

[Flyer]

ive recently been ispired by parasol wing fighters, and i was thinking of building a parasol-wing version of the spitfire in an early 1930's style, with a Focke Wulf Fw.56 style landinggear.

ivebeen thinking of calling it the Supermarine Sprite or Sylph

Sound's good! 

[NARSES2]

How about a Slip Wing Spitfire to go with the Hurricane ?

[perttime]

ive recently been ispired by parasol wing fighters, and i was thinking of building a parasol-wing version of the spitfire in an early 1930's style, with a Focke Wulf Fw.56 style landinggear.

ivebeen thinking of calling it the Supermarine Sprite or Sylph

That reminds me of a Steampunk Spitfire that I've seen. Not sure if it has been posted here before.



DeviantArt link just in case: https://www.deviantart.com/ornicar/art/Steampunk-City-181825584

[Flyer]

How about a Slip Wing Spitfire to go with the Hurricane ?

Something that has always bugged me about the Slip Wing concept, the wing area gets doubled but the horizontal stabilizer area doesn't change, that must have made for unpleasant handling and/or stability and as it was designed for long distance ferry flights (I think) that seems less than ideal, level flight for any length of time surely must have been a challenge...

[NARSES2]

The Putnam's Hawker book simply says that the slip wing was designed to provide extra lift for take off. It flew several times and then the scheme was abandoned.

The Crecy Hawker Hurricane book says basically the same thing, but adds that it was specifically designed to allow a Hurricane overloaded with fuel for a long ferry flight to take off and that after reaching cruising altitude the wing would be jettisoned.

[Zero-Sen]

[PR19_Kit]

That top one's very much like the one at Palm Springs, contra-prop, clipped wings and all.

[NARSES2]

I've seen something similar to the jet one before. However it had a straight through inlet/engine/exhaust, your exhaust outlets in the wing roots is much neater 

Could be fun to land though ?