Trumpeter 1/48 02850 Supermarine Spiteful F XIV Fighter Kit
The kit consists of over 80 parts , includes 7 clear parts, wings with finely engraved panel Lines. Length 216mm & Wingspan 224mm
The Supermarine Spiteful was a British Rolls-Royce Griffon-engined fighter aircraft.
In late 1942, Supermarine designers feared the drag characteristics of the Spitfire's wing at high Mach numbers (nearing the speed of sound) might become a limiting factor in increasing the aircraft's high-speed performance. To overcome this, it was decided to produce a new laminar-flow wing, much like that already used on the North American P-51 Mustang, Another change, to improve the ground-handling was replacing the Spitfire's narrow-track, outward-retracting undercarriage with a wider-track, inward-retracting system. As it was now substantially different from a Spitfire the new aircraft was named Spiteful