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Aviation History
1944
1944 - 1843.PDF
The Seafire, Mark III, is the latest version of the original Seafire, which in turn was a development of the Spitfire Mark VB. It is shown in various atti tudes in Figs. 5-8, the most noteworthy feature being the folding of the wings, necessitated by the fact that the machine Operates from aircraft carriers. While the Seafire IA was a carrier-borne version of the Spitfire VB., and the Mark IB was developed from the Spit fire Vc, the Mark II owed its ancestry to the Spitfire IX. The Mark III Seafire is a descendant of the Spitfire Vc, the engine of which was a Rolls-Royce Merlin XLV of some 1,300 h.p. It has the same armament of two 20 mm. cannon and four .303 machine guns, or of four 20 mm. cannon. The Spitfire Vc has-a speed of about 370 m.p.h., at low altitudes. Arrester hook and catapult spools are part of the normal equipment of the Sea- fire III.
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