How a Mocked Design Turned the Spitfire Into a 470 MPH Beast
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How a Mocked Design Turned the Spitfire Into a 470 MPH Beast
In 1943-44, British engineers faced a seemingly impossible challenge: the powerful new Rolls-Royce Griffon engine was turning advanced Spitfire fighters into uncontrollable, torque-twisted beasts that even experienced pilots struggled to handle. Chief designer Joseph Smith's radical solution-a complex contra-rotating propeller system with two props spinning in opposite directions-was ridiculed by test pilots as an over-engineered "Rube Goldberg" contraption destined to fail in combat. Yet this "stupid" design transformed the late-war Spitfire into a 470 MPH monster, eliminating the vicious torque problems and creating one of the most stable, lethal piston fighters to dominate the skies over Europe and the Pacific.
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