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

蚊蚋轻型战斗机（英文：Folland Gnat Light Fighter），是一种单座轻型战斗机，1955年原型机试飞， 印巴战争 时曾击落过F－86战斗机。 最大速度1152千米/小时 [1]，作战半径800千米。 装2门“阿登”30毫米航炮，可外挂2枚227炸弹或12枚弹。 印度共和国空军的蚊蚋轻型战斗机，在1965年空战中为争夺制空权发挥了重要作用。 1950年英国军方开始计划新一代轻型战术战斗机，1952年由Folland Aircraft负责开发。 该战机一反当时追求更快、更高的潮流，而是追求小型、操作灵 …

蚊蚋（Gnat），1950年英国著名的飞机设计师W.E.W.贝特（W.E.W.Petter）离开英国电气（EnglishElectric），加入弗兰德公司（Folland）后，着手设计的一种廉价实用的小型喷气战机。 “蚊蚋”原型机在1955年7月18日首飞，公司编号为Fo.140，生产型的“蚊蚋”被称为F.1型，公司编号为Fo.141。 但英国最后并没有选定“蚊蚋”作为新一代的对地攻击机，因而只用于出口。 贝特后来还设计了编号为Fo.142的“蚊蚋”2及编号为Fo.143的“蚊蚋”3，但是同样没有订单。 只有编号 …

The Folland Aircraft Company's Gnat fighter, designed by W.E.W. (Teddy) Petter, was a private venture development of the Folland Midge and the prototype (G-39-2) first flew in 1955.

The Folland Fo.141 Gnat is a single-engine single- or two-seat light fighter and trainer aircraft produced by the British manufacturer Folland Aircraft Limited, later by Hawker Siddeley.The Fo.144 Gnat Trainer is the two-seat trainer variant.

Designed in the mid-1950s by W.E.W. Petter as a low-cost alternative to increasingly expensive and overly sophisticated military aircraft, the Gnat is a tiny, subsonic, single-seat, swept-wing fighter and trainer.

The Folland Gnat was a small, swept-wing British subsonic jet trainer and light fighter aircraft developed by Folland Aircraft for the Royal Air Force, and flown extensively by the Indian Air Force. The Gnat was designed by W.E.W. Petter as a development of the private venture Folland Midge, and first flew in 1955.

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.

2019年5月8日 · In the 1950s Folland Aircraft commenced design of a lightweight fighter as a private venture known as the FO 145 and the prototype, known as the Midge (G-39-1), flew for the first time on 11 August 1954 at Boscombe Down in Wiltshire. The design was developed into the Gnat, the prototype of which (G-39-2) flew on 18 July 1955.

In order to prove the aerodynamics and systems of the Gnat, Petter produced the Fo-139 Midge proof-of-concept demonstrator. It was basically a scaled-down Gnat powered by an Armstrong Siddeley Viper 101 turbojet developing 744 kg (1 640 lb) of thrust.