Gloster Gnatsnapper

Infobox Aircraft
name = Gnatsnapper


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type = Fighter
national origin = United Kingdom
manufacturer = Gloster Aircraft
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first flight = February 1928
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status = Prototype only
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The Gloster SS.35 Gnatsnapper was a British naval biplane fighter design of the late 1920s.

Design and development

The Gnatsnapper was a submission to Air Ministry specification N.21/26 for a "deck landing" fighter.

Two Gnatsnappers were built by Gloster Aircraft. They were later converted to Mark II standard and then one was converted to the Gnatsnapper III. using Bristol Mercury, Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar and Rolls-Royce Kestrel engines in turn.

pecifications (Gnatsnapper II)

aircraft specifications
plane or copter?=plane
jet or prop?=prop

ref=Gloster Aircraft since 1917 James 1971, pp.166-167.]

crew=1

length main= 24 ft 7 in
length alt= 7.48 m
span main= 33 ft 6 in
span alt= 10.20 m
height main= 10 ft 11 in
height alt= 3.32 m
area main= 360 ft²
area alt= 33.4 m²
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empty weight main= 3,095 lb
empty weight alt= 1,403 kg
loaded weight main= 3,804 lb
loaded weight alt= 1,725 kg
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engine (prop)=Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar VIII
type of prop=14-cylinder air-cooled radial
number of props=1
power main= 540 hp
power alt= 403 kW
power original=
max speed main= 154 knots
max speed alt= 177 mph, 285 km/h
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stall speed main= 46 knots
stall speed alt= 53 mph, 85 km/h
range main= 426 NM
range alt= 490 mi Mason 1992, p.201.] ,789 km
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ceiling main= 24,500 ft
ceiling alt= 7,470 m
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loading main= 10.6 lb/ft²
loading alt= 51.6 kg/m²
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power/mass main= 0.14 hp/lb
power/mass alt= 0.23 kW/kg
more performance=*Endurance: 5 hr
*Climb to 20,000 ft (6,100 m): 19 min

guns= 2 x 0.303 in Vickers machine guns
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similar aircraft=*Armstrong Whitworth Starling
*Hawker Nimrod

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References

Notes

Bibliography

* James, Derek N. "Gloster Aircraft since 1917." London: Putnam, 1971. ISBN 0 370 00084 6.
* Mason, Francis K. "The British Fighter Since 1912". Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1992. ISBN 1-55750-082-7.

External links

* [http://www.britishaircraft.co.uk/aircraftpage.php?ID=630 British Aircraft Directory]