what was the spitfire originally called?

Answer 1

Name
The Air Ministry submitted a number of names to Vickers-Armstrongs for the new aircraft, tentatively known as the Type 300, including the improbable Shrew. The name Spitfire was suggested by Sir Robert MacLean, director of Vickers-Armstrongs at the time, who called his daughter Ann, "a little spitfire." The word dates from Elizabethan times and refers to a particularly fiery, ferocious type of person, usually a woman. The name had previously been used unofficially for Mitchell's earlier F.7/30 Type 224 design. Mitchell is reported to have said that it was "just the sort of bloody silly name they would choose",[5] possibly an oblique reference to an earlier, much less successful aircraft of his design that had been given the same name

Answer 2

I seem to remember that the air-plane that looked a lot like the spitfire (you will recognise the tail and the elliptical wings) was designed to win an air race and was originally a sea plane the floats were cut off and the design re-jigged when it became the spitfire i think it was the Schneider trophy ( excuse the spelling) the machines he built for these were called super-marine and then each model was give a name usually with a prefix of the letter A and then some numbers, so you could argue the first spitfires were called Super marine A 106 etc, as to where the name Spitfire came from well threes lots of theories on that . I believe there was a film made about Mitchell starring David Niven, Reach for the Skies maybe

Answer 3

The Vickers Supermarine Spitfire interceptor fighter was originally so designated. However, you may be thinking of it's ancestor, the Supermarine S6 B. This was a floatplane, also designed by R.J Mitchell, which (except for the floats) bears a superficial resemblance to the VS Spitfire. The S6B won the Schneider trophy in the 1930's, and the design was probably largely incorporated (with considerable modifications) to the later Spitfire.

Answer 4

Reginald John Mitchell designed the Spitfire and in March 1936 it rolled out of the factories for the first time, he designed it from the Schneider Trophy winning Supermarine S6B float plane. He wanted to give the Spitfire a name that would conjure up it`s abilities, he had many ideas but eventually decided to call it after the nickname he had for his daughter The Spitfire.

Answer 5

Supermarine Spitfire MK 1

Answer 6

The Air Ministry submitted a number of names to Vickers-Armstrongs for the new aircraft, tentatively known as the Type 300, including the improbable Shrew. The name Spitfire was suggested by Sir Robert MacLean, director of Vickers-Armstrongs at the time, who called his daughter Ann, "a little spitfire."

Answer 7

Supermarine's Spitfire was always know by the name "Spitfire" although it was originally suggested it be called Type 300 or Shrew.

Answer 8

Look Up Supermarine UK on the web and see all the planes they made and how. the old Spitfire monoplane came to be

Answer 9

Super marine Type F37/34 It was later termed super marine spitfire, which became simply spitfire, turning out to be one of the most recognisable aircraft in the War

Answer 10

there is no original, I know you had the SB6 schneider trophy winner with which the design came from,but the spitfire is the only name..!