Gee pictures of the Folland Gnat bring back alot of memories for me. As a young fledgling structural design engineer my very first job was working on a redesign of the Gnat wing. I was working for Short & Harland in Belfast, N. Ireland -they were contracted to do the job for Folland. That was the fall of 1957-where did the time go as it seems like it was only yesterday! I dont remember exactly why all the changes were being made-the wing had the same plan form as the original and I believe the same airfoil but lots of structural changes. I left S&H in Feb 1958 and went to Boeing so I did not see the design completed.
Its nice to see that there are still a few of those airplanes still around-I would have thought that they would be all gone by now! You never know what you are going to see on RCU!


Al Watson