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1923
1923 - 0611.PDF
OCTOBER 4, 1923 m m The Gloucester- shire " Gannet": Side view. m 'M m m m m The pilot's cockpit is immediately under the top centre section, and access to it is facilitated by folding up the trailing edge, which is pulled down and locked in position once the pilot is on board. The controls are of usual type. The engine, as already stated, is a two-cylinder, vertical, two-stroke, air-cooled engine of 750 c.c. capacity, specially will be quite sufficient, as a good draught of air is constantly being blown across the cylinders when the engine is running. The petrol tank is mounted in the top centre section, and there is thus a very good head of petrol, so that direct gravity feed can easily be employed. The undercarriage is of usual V-type, and has spruce struts THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE " GANNET Three-quarter front views of the machine, with wings extended and folded. , . designed. It is mounted on an engine plate carried on tubular struts, bolted to a fireproof bulkhead. As the engine is not run at extremely high revs., direct drive is employed, and it will be seen from the photographs that the nose of the machine is extremely neat, and should offer a minimum of resistance. For smoothness of running the two-cylinder two-stroke should be very good, as it is equivalent to a four- cylinder four-stroke, and it may be presumed that the cooling carrying rubber shock-absorbers for the axle. The wheels are Palmer wheels. The following are the main characteristics of the Gloucester- shire " Gannet " light 'plane : Length, o.a., 16 ft. 8 ins. ; height, 5 ft. 9 ins. ; span, 18 ft. open and 6 ft. 6 ins. folded ; chord, 3 ft. 1J ins. ; wing area, 103 sq. ft. ; weight empty, 283 lbs. ; weight loaded, 460 lbs. ; wing loading, 4-46 lbs. per sq. ft. . . • ••.-.. & m m The Gloucester- shire" Gannet": View from above of the machine in skeleton. m m
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