Gloster Gannet

The Gloster Gannet was a tiny single-seat, single-engined biplane built by the Gloucestershire Aircraft Company at Cheltenham for the light aircraft trials held at Lympne in 1923, where engine size was limited to 750 cc to encourage cheap private flying. It was among the smallest aircraft built in Britain and had wings that folded back along the fuselage for easy storage. Its specially designed Carden two-cylinder two-stroke engine overheated and lacked lubrication, so it could not fly in the contest although it was present as G-EBHU. It was later re-engined with a seven horsepower Blackburne Tomtit and was scrapped in 1932.