Lance Cole’s biography of the chief aerodynamicist of these planes reveals that their countersunk rivets were taken from the Heinkel He70, but not the elliptical wings as popularly thought. To solve a negative-g stalling problem with these planes, the engineer Tilly Shilling designed a fuel flow restrictor known as “Miss Shilling’s orifice.” An apocryphal story held that over a hundred of these planes were buried in Burma in (*) 1946. For this plane, a designer drew upon his design for the permanent Schneider Trophy winner’s light frame with Merlin engines. R. J. Mitchell was the lead designer on these planes for Supermarine. The Mk I variant of these planes was the first plane able to duel with Messerschmitts. For 10 points, name these planes that succeeded the Hawker Hurricane as the major Royal Air Force fighter during World War II. ■END■
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