The death is-announced to-day of Mr. Reginald Joseph Mitchell at the untimely age of only 42, for whom it may fairly be claimed that he was Highapecd. aeroplanes. He designed speed aci fe design The third single-seat fighter to be announced among the new monoplanes is a Gloster all-metal machine of stressed skin construction which has just begun flying trials. It has an air-cooled radial engine, which may be either a Bristol Mercury poppet-valved highly. supercharged, or- a Perseus sleeve-valved, unit.
The new Gloster fighter is a low-wing monoplane dt beautiful lines, Its undercarriage retracts backwards, and when fully withdrawn
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