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Summary: Gloster Gamecock aircraft Airplane blueprint for the Gloster, Gamecock ... Aviation history and aircraft blueprints/plans. The Gloster Gamecock was one of the last wooden front line fighters to serve with the RAF. It was a development of the speedy and highly manoeuvrable Gloster Grebe which was justifiably popular with its pilots, if less so with its ground crews.
Description:
Single-seat interceptor biplane. Wood with fabric covering, pilot in open cockpit.
Powerplant:
One 425 hp Bristol Jupiter VI nine-cylinder air-cooled radial, driving a 9 ft 0 in (274 m) diameler Watts two-blade fixed-pitch wooden propeller.
Armament:
Two fixed synchronized Vickers Mk.I 303 in machine guns mounted in fuselage side troughs with 1,200 rounds of ammunition giving 25 seconds duration of fire.
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