Was that PZL jet biplane ever used ?
Looks like it would have some outstanding flying qualities.

As for the Bychok, I reckon it actually doesn’t look half bad:)

Originally posted by VoyTech
Why do you call the Attacker ‘the last’? Then they gave it swept wings and tail, and the nose wheel, but did not alter the fuselage all that much, making it the Swift. So, in fact, between the Goshawk-powered F.7/30 and the Swift there never was a point at which the Supermarine team would drop the previous designs completely and start a new one from a scratch. In terms of engineering all they were doing was to endlessly modify and improve an existing design!

V.

Fair comment,

I guess the way I was looking at it was from a tail-wheeled, straight wing evolution, but you have a good point there.
🙂

Originally posted by DazDaMan

That Swiss target-tug thing with the turbine engine and the three tail-fins!!

you mean this baby??:D

C-3605 Schlepp…

(pic from http://avia.russian.ee/~star/air/switzerland/faf_c-3605.html)

Originally posted by Galdri
That was the very first Spiteful, NN660. It was a Mk XIV fuselage with the new wing. After it crashed they built a completely new fuselage as well, so in a way, there is nothing ‘Spitfire’ in the Spiteful. What I was getting at, was that, what ended up as the Spiteful, was designed to remedy problem spots in the Spitfire. The new wing was designed to increase the wings stiffness, and to try and get a higher critical mach number (which failed!). The new fuselage was designed to improve the deflection shooting view from the cockpit, which in all Spitfire variants up to that time had been rather bad.

The Attacker had the Spiteful wing, and was therefor carrying the Spitfire legacy into the jet age, as the wing was designed as an improved wing for the Spitfire.

To take another aircraft, the Boeing 737. It has had a new fuselage, new engines, new wing, new systems and so on, but is is still a B737. So I think the Spiteful is just as much a Spitfire.

Actually, just thinking more about the Spiteful/Attacker connection and Spitfire/Spiteful connection…..

The Spitfire Mk1 and Mk24 were both Spitfires, but IMHO, they probably have no interchangeability but are still Spits.

So I believe that the Spiteful IS part of the Spit family and so is the Attacker.

Yet the Hunter has a mid-mounted tailplane and apparently has superlative flying characteristics.