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Since the article has already has undergone some changes in format, I would like to note some changes that were made recently to use templates. It is not clear whether templates are necessary, and with some errors made in the use of the templates, I considered that the revert to the original format style was appropriate. FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 23:05, 7 June 2008 (UTC).
I know, they were working up to being race ready. Would you accept "practise" (the more usual racer term)? TREKphiler hit me ♠ 04:34, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
Mitchell's Supermarine S.6B was made in 1931 by for the Schneider Trophy series of racing aircraft culminating in his last racing aircraft. That same year 1931, Mitchell began development of a new and modern fighter aircraft Supermarine Type 224, Type 300, F7/30 design, F10/35, prototype K5054 and first production K9787.
The Supermarine S.6B is the direct racing predecessor to the development of the Spitfire fighter. This and can be correlated with many history references and wikipedia articles,
Spitfire development and
Mitchell's aviation career.
RW Marloe
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15:18, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
I was most surprised by 'An abortive attempt to address the high speed in alighting resulted in a proposal to convert the S.6 to a biplane configuration. This proposal did not proceed further than a "paper" project and was cancelled in the rush to redesign the earlier racer'. I make no claim to be an expert in the subject, but over the years I've read a lot about the subject and don't recall reading about any such proposal. There's certainly no reference in the only reference I have to hand, which is the Profile Publications monograph on the Supermarine Schneider types, and given that a)they were very short of time to prepare an entrnt for the 1931 and converting the S.6 into a biplane seems to me to be more than a minor tweak to the design (!) and b) that Mitchell's had rejected a biplane layout for the S.4, it's difficult to imagine a'proposal to convert the S.6 into a biplane' being much more than a short conversation in the pub after work. A good citation is, imo, needed. TheLongTone ( talk) 10:43, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Hat soup for supper. I don't have the Supermarine types book, but I was looking at it in the library last week. I did skim-read the S6..entry, but it was only a skim. It still seems like a daft idea to me. I don't like 'abortive': it's redundant TheLongTone ( talk) 22:01, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
Nonexistant, you are looking for the Supermarine Snark.page number gives it away: its a long way from the page range of the article. (pagination is for 1981 London edition). The full caption to the drawing, (which is a conflation of two drawings & illustrated with a pair of side elevations and a composite front view, no plan view) is 'An interesting scheme for adding wing area to a Schneider s>6 forto lower alighting speed to 90mph for experiments.' The wording as on the page now is too horrible to be from the book. An attempt to lower the landing speed produced a proposal to convert the S.6 to a biplane. (This proposal went no further than drawings and was abandoned in the rush to redesign the existing airframe) is how I would put it: the second bracketed bit only there if the reference is to a 1931 attempt. I imagine it to be 1929, but that's imagination. If the idea was referred to I think the caption would reflect that. TheLongTone ( talk) 21:07, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
I'm sorry, I guffed this up when I split it off. The intention was to separate the explanation of why there was no S.7 in preparation and recourse had to be made to using the two existing airframes and building two more modified versions.Its a separate story and deserves expansion rather than being something cluttering up the beginning of the story of the S6B technical development. but I do have as excuse, which as it stood, started 'In 1930 ,prime minister....and then actully starts with the announcement in 1929. Mea culpa, I'll sort it out TheLongTone ( talk) 11:18, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
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Since the article has already has undergone some changes in format, I would like to note some changes that were made recently to use templates. It is not clear whether templates are necessary, and with some errors made in the use of the templates, I considered that the revert to the original format style was appropriate. FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 23:05, 7 June 2008 (UTC).
I know, they were working up to being race ready. Would you accept "practise" (the more usual racer term)? TREKphiler hit me ♠ 04:34, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
Mitchell's Supermarine S.6B was made in 1931 by for the Schneider Trophy series of racing aircraft culminating in his last racing aircraft. That same year 1931, Mitchell began development of a new and modern fighter aircraft Supermarine Type 224, Type 300, F7/30 design, F10/35, prototype K5054 and first production K9787.
The Supermarine S.6B is the direct racing predecessor to the development of the Spitfire fighter. This and can be correlated with many history references and wikipedia articles,
Spitfire development and
Mitchell's aviation career.
RW Marloe
(talk)
15:18, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
I was most surprised by 'An abortive attempt to address the high speed in alighting resulted in a proposal to convert the S.6 to a biplane configuration. This proposal did not proceed further than a "paper" project and was cancelled in the rush to redesign the earlier racer'. I make no claim to be an expert in the subject, but over the years I've read a lot about the subject and don't recall reading about any such proposal. There's certainly no reference in the only reference I have to hand, which is the Profile Publications monograph on the Supermarine Schneider types, and given that a)they were very short of time to prepare an entrnt for the 1931 and converting the S.6 into a biplane seems to me to be more than a minor tweak to the design (!) and b) that Mitchell's had rejected a biplane layout for the S.4, it's difficult to imagine a'proposal to convert the S.6 into a biplane' being much more than a short conversation in the pub after work. A good citation is, imo, needed. TheLongTone ( talk) 10:43, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Hat soup for supper. I don't have the Supermarine types book, but I was looking at it in the library last week. I did skim-read the S6..entry, but it was only a skim. It still seems like a daft idea to me. I don't like 'abortive': it's redundant TheLongTone ( talk) 22:01, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
Nonexistant, you are looking for the Supermarine Snark.page number gives it away: its a long way from the page range of the article. (pagination is for 1981 London edition). The full caption to the drawing, (which is a conflation of two drawings & illustrated with a pair of side elevations and a composite front view, no plan view) is 'An interesting scheme for adding wing area to a Schneider s>6 forto lower alighting speed to 90mph for experiments.' The wording as on the page now is too horrible to be from the book. An attempt to lower the landing speed produced a proposal to convert the S.6 to a biplane. (This proposal went no further than drawings and was abandoned in the rush to redesign the existing airframe) is how I would put it: the second bracketed bit only there if the reference is to a 1931 attempt. I imagine it to be 1929, but that's imagination. If the idea was referred to I think the caption would reflect that. TheLongTone ( talk) 21:07, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
I'm sorry, I guffed this up when I split it off. The intention was to separate the explanation of why there was no S.7 in preparation and recourse had to be made to using the two existing airframes and building two more modified versions.Its a separate story and deserves expansion rather than being something cluttering up the beginning of the story of the S6B technical development. but I do have as excuse, which as it stood, started 'In 1930 ,prime minister....and then actully starts with the announcement in 1929. Mea culpa, I'll sort it out TheLongTone ( talk) 11:18, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
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