Gloster Gauntlet Aircraft

Production Details

Design Company:

Gloster Aircraft Company, Hucclecote

First Flight:

January 1929

Gloster SS.18:

1 - Gloster Aircraft Company

Gloster Gauntlet I:

24 - Gloster Aircraft Company

Gloster Gauntlet II:

204 - Gloster Aircraft Company

Type Specification

Applies to:

Gloster Gauntlet II

Type:

Single seat day and night fighter

Wing:

Two bay, staggered biplane. The structure consists of two spars of high tensile steel stripo and duralumin rids, the whole being covered with fabric.

Fuselage:

Rectangular metal structure, faired to an oval section and covered forward with metal panels and aft with fabric over a light metal structure

Tail Unit:

Normal monoplane type. Steel tube and duralumin strip framework, covered with fabric

Landing Gear:

Cross axle Vee type

Power Plant:

One 640 hp Bristol Mercury VIS2 nine cylinder air cooled supercharged radial, driving a 10 ft 9 in two blade fixed pitch wooden propeller

Accommodation:

Pilots cockpit under a cut out in the trailing edge of the top plane

Armament:

Two Vickers guns let into the sides of the fuselage

Span:

32 ft 9.5 in

Length:

26 ft 5 in

Height:

10 ft 3 in

Wing Area:

315 sq ft

Empty:

2,770 lb

Loaded:

3,970 lb

Max Speed:

230 mph at 15,800 ft

Service Ceiling:

33,500 ft

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