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SUPERMARINE SCIMITAR

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SUPERMARINE SCIMITAR
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This page last updated on 28th February 2004

WEB SITES

William Daysh's 49ers Reunion Web Site, for RN Aircraft Artificers, includes a good number of piccies of Scimitars in action in the galleries.
German magazine Flug Revue has a web site which includes this page on the Scimitar with a rather nice picture, specs and brief description.
Emmanuel Gustin's British military aircraft database includes entries for the Supermarine types 508, 529, 525 and the Scimitar itself (wrongly described as the type 525, it's really the 544).

BOOKS

Scimitar File by Eric Morgan & John Stevens published by Air Britain, ISBN 0-7110-2034-5. Simply the book on the Scimitar and if you have any interest in the type at all this should be in your collection.

Scimitar by David Gibbings & J.A. Gorman published by Society of Friends of the Fleet Air Arm Museum, ISBN 0 948251 39 5. A monograph on the Scimitar, with brief squadron histories, development history and so on. A good selection of pictures you won't see elsewhere plus camouflage scheme side views for modellers and annotated pictures of the cockpit. Recommended.

Postwar Military Aircraft 7; Supermarine Attacker, Swift and Scimitar by Philip Birtles published by Ian Allan, ISBN 0-7110-2034-5. One of very few tomes on the Scimitar, and even then only devotes around a quarter of the book to it. A good number of photos and a good history of the development and service. Recommended.

Supermarine Aircraft since 1914 by C F Andrews and E B Morgan published by Putnam, ISBN 0 85177 800 3. Includes a number of pages on the Scimitar with good development history and a good number of black and white pictures. Recommended.
The British Fighter since 1912 by Francis K. Mason published by Putnam, ISBN 0-85177-852-6. An invaluable reference to British fighter aircraft, includes several pages on the development of the Scimitar and related aircraft, with black and white pictures and small plans diagram. Highly recommended, though not purely as a Scimitar reference.

MAGAZINES

The Aeroplane February 20th 1959: article on development history.
The Aeroplane July 26th 1957: article on the trials programme.
Aeroplane Monthly, March 1979: Fighters of the Fifties No.22 - Supermarine Scimitar by C. F. Andrews. Excellent article on the Scimitar with development and service history and lots of monochrome pictures and nice scale artwork showing the N113 and Scimitar from sides, top, bottom, etc.
Fighters Pictorial: Scimitar, Supermarine's Last Fighter. Nice 4-page article on the Scimitar with colour and monochrome pictures (including ones of the type 508 and 525), brief history of each individual airframe, plans, colour profile, brief development & service history.
Flight April 4th 1958: article on the trials programme and technical description with cutaway drawings.
Scale Aviation Modeller September 1997 (Vol 3 No 9): Scintillating Scimitar; Bill Clark builds the Dynavector 1/48 vacform kit. Don't be misled by the cover of this issue, there is no colour and markings article on the Scimitar in this issue. I wasn't wonderfully happy about that when I got home!
Any other magazine references would be appreciated!

CREDITS

This section would have been greatly the poorer without contributions from the following - so many thanks to (in alphabetical order):

Jonathan Davies, Ray Deacon, Peter Duhig, Andrea Geraci, Nicolas Godfurnon, Rick Kent, Zvi Kreisler, Garry Lakin and Kim Raquet.

Thanks also to the following organisations:

The Southampton Hall of Aviation.

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