RE: Supermarine on Floats- Need help!!!
The Supermarine S6B was the third seaplane racer to come out of the Supermarine factory in the late twenties and early thirties. There was the S6, S6A, and finally, the S6B. With this plane, the factory outright won (winning 3 years in a row) the Schneider Cup, beating the Italians. These races were the first time that G-LOC was experienced by pilots in the turns and several were killed before determining the cause (One fellow managed to regain consciousness before he crashed and thus they figured out what was happening). The lessons learned from the development of these racers were instrumental in the development of both the later Supermarine Spitfire and the Rolls Royce Merlin engine, without which Britain certainly would have had a much harder time during the Battle of Britain. By the way, the designer of the S6 series racers and the Spitfire was Reginald Mitchell. Soon after designing the Spitfire, Mitchell died of stomach cancer. Although he did get to see the aircraft prototype fly, he passed away before production started and never knew the contribution that his design made in helping to win the war.
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