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37 litre Griffon Spitfire Mk.18
Supermarine Spitfire Mk.18, powered by a Rolls Royce Griffon engine. Flown by
Rob Davies at the Hangar 10 Fly In 2019.
The Rolls-Royce Griffon engine was
designed in answer to Royal Naval specifications for an engine capable of
generating good power at low altitudes. Concepts for adapting the Spitfire to
take the new engine had begun as far back as October 1939; Joseph Smith felt
that “The good big ‘un will eventually beat the good little ‘un.” and Ernest
Hives of Rolls-Royce thought that the Griffon would be “a second power string
for the Spitfire”.[1] The first of the Griffon-engined Spitfires flew on 27
November 1941.
Although the Griffon-engined Spitfires
were never produced in the large numbers of the Merlin-engined variants they
were an important part of the Spitfire family, and in their later versions kept
the Spitfire at the forefront of piston-engined fighter development. This article describes the Griffon-powered Spitfire variants.
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