Gloster F.5/34 Aircraft

Production Details

Design Company:

Gloster Aircraft Company, Hucclecote

First Flight:

December 1937

F.5/34:

2 - Gloster Aircraft Co Ltd, Hucclecote

Type Specification

Applies to:

Gloster F.5/34

Type:

Single-seat day fighter monoplane

Wing:

Low wing cantilever monoplane. The mainplane was built in one piece with the light-alloy spars running through from tip to tip and ribs made from channelling with steel and light-alloy tube struts. Duralumin stressed-skin was used on the mainplane and tail unit with fabric-covered Frise ailerons

Fuselage:

Monocoque structure built up from light, fabricated oval-section rings with duralumin skinning

Tail Unit:

Metal stressed-skin construction with fabric-covered control surfaces

Landing Gear:

All three units of the landing gear retracted, the mainwheel units swinging rearwards and upwards into the wing leaving a large segment of each wheel protruding below its lower surface. The tailwheel retracted in a similar manner, also leaving a portion of the wheel exposed

Power Plant:

One 840 hp Bristol Mercury IX nine-cylinder geared and supercharged air-cooled radial, driving a 10 ft 6 in diameter de Havilland three-blade controllable-pitch metal propeller

Accommodation:

Pilot in enclosed cockpit

Armament:

The armament, consisting of eight Browning .303 in guns, was mounted in the mainplanes outboard of the propeller disc

Span:

38 ft 2 in

Length:

32 ft 0 in

Height:

10 ft 2 in

Wing Area:

230 sq ft

Empty:

4,190 lb

Loaded:

5,400 lb

Maximum Speed:

316 mph at 16,000 ft

Climb:

20,000 ft in 11 min

Service Ceiling:

32,500 ft

Preserved in British Museums

Web Sites