Supermarine Aircraft Spitfire Aircraft company and produce all-Australian homebuild aircraft kits. In the event, the constant-speed, four-blade propeller would be obtained from a specialist firm in New Zealand. Supermarine Aircraft is not related to the original British Supermarine company, although the owners of the Supermarine marque have given their permission for the name to be used. The first production model was named the Spitfire Mk25 and was a 75% scale replica of the original Supermarine Spitfire design. The stressed skin structure consists of 2024 aluminium alloy skins, formers and longerons with some fibre-glass mouldings for parts such as fairings and air scoops. The
Aircraft in fiction Harbor" (2001), directed by Michael Bay, included a sequence which featured Spitfires. A Spitfire Mk Vb featured in at least three episodes of the British ITV television series "Foyle's War" (2002-2015). The central character Detective Foyle has a son Andrew, who is a pilot in the Royal Air Force during WW2. One episode to feature the Spitfire was "Among the Few" in season 2 where one of Andrew's fellow pilots is revealed to be a secret homosexual and guilty of manslaughter. Spitfires starred in the 2006 seven-minute short film/commercial "Pilots" produced by the Swiss-German watch manufacturer IWC Schaffhausen to promote