Folland "Midge", prototype of "Gnat" fighter has Armstrong Siddeley "Viper" engine but "Gnat" will have more powerful Bristol "Orpheus"; fully equipped, "Gnat" will cost between one-third and one-quarter price of standard fighter, and it is claimed that five "Gnat" airframes can be built in man-hours required for one standard fighter airframe; "Midge" will be capable of flying at over 600 mph. (See also Engineer v 198 n 5143 Aug 20 1954 p 257)


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    Titel :

    Prototype light jet fighter aircraft


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Flight


    Erschienen in:

    Flight ; 66 , n 2378 ; p 228-229


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1954


    Format / Umfang :

    2 pages


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch


    Schlagwörter :


    Prototype light jet fighter aircraft

    Engineering Index Backfile | 1954


    Fighter : a history of fighter aircraft

    Batchelor, John H. ;Cooper, Bryan | SLUB | 1973


    Fighter : a history of fighter aircraft

    Batchelor, John H. / Cooper, Bryan | GWLB - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek | 1974