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Song Parodies -> "Gull-Winged Spit Not Approved"
Original Song Title:
"I Put a Spell on You"
(MP3)Original Performer:
Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Parody Song Title:
"Gull-Winged Spit Not Approved"
Parody Written by:
Robert D. Arndt Jr.
The Lyrics
The original Spitfire designed by RJ Mitchell in 1934 goes back to a RAF specification for a new fighter (F.7/30) of 1930. The aircraft was originally called the Shrew but the President of Vickers (a subsidiary of Supermarine) Robert MacClean proposed "Spitfire" based on his "little Spitfire" of a daughter Ann. The name stuck* but unfortunately the Type 224 did not work out. It was a metal and fabric monoplane with inverted gull wings and ugly mound-shaped main wheel fairings that carried part of an evaporative cooling system as well as 2 of the 4 MGs of 7.7mm. It was powered by a Goshawk II engine of only 600 hp and was slow at 228 mph max. speed. Ceiling was high 39,000 ft but climb was slow at 1500 fpm. The RAF declined the aircraft and it ended-up as a gunnery target. Meanwhile, the Spitfire name was retained for the Type 300 with the new Merlin engine, redesigned gear, rudder, elliptical wing, and 8x MGs which flew in 1936.
Gull-winged Spit not approved
Bad design
Mitchell Type 2-2-4 was new
Goshawk engine
Evap coolin’ system
Was made of metal and fabric
Main wheel fairings- "mounds"
Inverted gull wings heavy
Speed of 228 was a let-down
[RAF fighter wasn’t sound]
Gull-winged Spit not approved
Was bad design
For time
Name changed too
Name changed too
Name changed too
“Spitfire” after daughter
Real Spit later
Type 300 need
New gear, wing, rudder
[Merlin made it better]
Not to be
Gull-winged Spit not approved
Was bad design
(became target for gunnery!)
* the alternate name was Firecilla
Bad design
Mitchell Type 2-2-4 was new
Goshawk engine
Evap coolin’ system
Was made of metal and fabric
Main wheel fairings- "mounds"
Inverted gull wings heavy
Speed of 228 was a let-down
[RAF fighter wasn’t sound]
Gull-winged Spit not approved
Was bad design
For time
Name changed too
Name changed too
Name changed too
“Spitfire” after daughter
Real Spit later
Type 300 need
New gear, wing, rudder
[Merlin made it better]
Not to be
Gull-winged Spit not approved
Was bad design
(became target for gunnery!)
* the alternate name was Firecilla
Type 224 Spitfire: http://www.rjmitchell-spitfire.co.uk/spitfire/images/g_type224gullwing.jpg
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