The Seafire!

Another supposedly lost aircraft flies again! This is cool:The Seafire

youtube links looks something like this watch?v=uCppmoZiXUY you need to copy all after the = (uCppmoZiXUY)and pasted in the insert youtube video icon when you make you post, i hope it helps

Reminds me of the p51, cool plane.

Cool story, beautiful plane...

I've embedded the video for others to watch.



***EDIT***

I guess I was too slow on the video... Oh well.

So this was a spitfire but designed for the navy? Now that I didn't know thanks for the vid I know a few people who would be interested in this

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One of the really interesting things about it was the wing fold mechanism. They folded in two places, the landing gear wells and the outer tips.

Beautiful aircraft, it shows if you put your mind to it you can achieve almost any thing. May be one day the Arrow Avro CF 105
will fly again!

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The roar of The Rolls Royce Merlin engine.
There is no other sound to compare.

alldaylong
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The roar of The Rolls Royce Merlin engine.
There is no other sound to compare.

I agree, the p51 sounds neutered with the Allison.

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I agree, but this marque (Seafire XV) had a RR Griffon . Still a lovely sound.

That's just beautiful.

Absolutely beautiful!

Zaphod58
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One of the really interesting things about it was the wing fold mechanism. They folded in two places, the landing gear wells and the outer tips.

For any particular reason ?

reply to post by ThePeaceMaker


It gave a little bit more clearance below decks.

ThePeaceMaker
So this was a spitfire but designed for the navy? Now that I didn't know thanks for the vid I know a few people who would be interested in this

It was not a simple task to redesign the a/c for naval operations - the wiki page has a stage-by-stage description - from simply adding an arrester hook to the almost complete redesign of the wings for those that folded - not all did.

Originally designed as a short range interceptor the Spitfire wasn't all that well suited for carrier ops - it's narrow undercarriage was a problem, and it was structurally not strong enough despite reinforcing. The various changes required shifted its centre of gravity and negatively affected its handling.