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| The Fleet Air Arm's first swept-wing aircraft, the Supermarine Scimitar was designed in the late 1940s as an interceptor & strike aircraft with transonic performance. The Scimitar had blown trailing edge flaps, dog-toothed wing leading edges & an anhedralled tail-plane. The Type 508 prototype had straight wings & a butterfly tail, & first flew in August 1951. This was followed by a swept-wing prototype, the Type 525 & finally by the Type 544 prototype, which was virtually up to production standard & first flew in January 1956. Deliveries of the Scimitar F.Mk1 production aircraft began in January 1957, all 76 aircraft built having provision for a camera nose or a buddy refuelling pack. The Scimitar was retired in 1965. | ||
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