Twin engined Spitfire

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I was reading in Supermarine Aircraft Since 1914 mentioned a 'highly promising design for a twin-engined Spitfire". I have not found any information on the subject, nor did a search on the directories here return anything. The closest thing I found is the Type 327 but it doesn't state that it was the aircraft in question.

Does anybody have any information on this aircraft?
 
Hi
some may think of the Type 313 as a twin engined Spitfire also.
There are also the 324 and 325 to consider?


Peter
 

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Drawn by a future Japanese Whatifer ? This twin tailed Spitfire seems a good subject for Tophe who is a great designer !!! ;D
NB : Tophe has a published drawing of projected Moskalyev SAM-109 (a "Chtourmovik") in Le Fanatique de l'Aviation Nr 505 of December in a subject wrote by Herbert Léonard (the greatest French specialised historian of Soviet WWII planes, a great French crooner also) over the Moskalyev LT, an A-10 ancestor ...

Tonton
 
A model of the twin-engined Supermarine 327 Spito is available at http://www.unicraft.biz/on/spito/spito.htm (with photograph of the prototype under construction). Concerning the double-Spitfires, many what-if modellers have played building ones, this is explained in my free book "Supplement to Forked Ghosts" at http://cmeunier.chez-alice.fr/Free_EoFG_MV.htm
I am going to add the Japanese one (thanks) in my update on the what-if modellers website .
 

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Peter:

After rereading Tony Buttler's Secret Projects and the Supermarine Aircraft I too think that the Type 313 is the most likely candidate. The Type 324s and 325s were built for F.18/37 which was after the proposed twin-engined Spitfire, making the Type 327 even later.

Thanks all for the help and Peter - great illustrations as always.

Loren
 

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