No Spitfeur

[Franek Grabowski]

Originally Posted by Ruy Horta

With no Spitfires there would have been more industrial capacity to work on and produce some other promising type(s), like perhaps the Hawker Tornado, the granddaddy of subsequent Hawker fighters. Of course the basic need for a new fighter would have given great impetus to subsequent fighter development.

A major error. Tornado was not in production not because Spitfire took the industrial capacity but because it was a failure. Actually, Spitfire was considered a stop gap but as there was nothing available from Hawker, she went into a mass production.