The Folland Gnat is a British compact swept-wing subsonic fighter aircraft that was developed and produced by Folland Aircraft.

The Folland Fo.144 Gnat T.1 is the most famous variant, being the aircraft chosen for the world-famous RAF aerobatic display team, the Red Arrows, and its1964-1965 predecessor the Yellowjacks. Gnats were operated by the Red Arrows from 1965 until replaced by the British Aropspace Hawk T.1 in 1979.

The prototype Gnat first flew in 1959 with an extended nose and broader wings to lower landing speeds. The Folland Gnat possessed all of the flight characteristics of a modern jet fighter and was capable of speeds over Mach one in a shallow dive.

2020年7月1日 · The Folland Gnat was a swept-wing, jet-powered fighter of British origins appearing in the middle of the 1950's. Designed as a light-weight, cost-effective aircraft with impressive performance specifications, the diminutive Gnat proved a better success on the export market than it did as an indigenous creation for the United Kingdom.

2014年9月17日 · The Gnat was an affordable light fighter aircraft, developed and produced by Folland Aircraft of Britain. The strength of this swept-wing subsonic jet lay in its small size, low weight, high manoeuvrability and low cost. It was an attempted fightback against the rising cost and size of combat aircraft from the 1950s onwards.

2021年7月15日 · Built primarily as a dogfighter, the Gnat was a pilots dream to fly. With an armament of 2 30mm ADEN cannon, and four hardpoints for two 500 lb bombs and rockets, it …

2025年2月8日 · The Folland Gnat, a compact fighter, measures just 29 feet 9 inches long and has a wingspan of just 22 feet 2 inches. This gives the aircraft a total wing area of just over 135 square feet, which alongside a height of 8 feet 10 inches leaves the aircraft with an empty weight of around 4,800 pounds.

History: The Fo.141 Gnat was a British all-metal fighter and trainer designed by Folland to be small and economical, yet capable of high performance. Derived from the even-more-diminutive Fo.139 Midge prototype, the Gnat possessed outstanding performance features including a 10,000 foot-per-minute climb rate, and a roll rate in excess of 360 ...

The Gnat is a two seat (tandem) aircraft, powered by a single Bristol Siddeley Orpheus jet engine, and is equipped with a tri-cycle retractable landing gear. It was originally designed by the...

The Folland Gnat is a British lightweight fighter aircraft developed in the late 1950s by Folland Aircraft, later part of Hawker-Siddeley. Designed initially as a small, cost-effective fighter, it …