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• As in the Gorcock, power came from variants of the Napier Lion broad arrow 12-cylinder engine.
• The Gorcock was a single-bay biplane with strong Gamecock rudders, vertically extended to include a horn balance.
• The rear fuselage was closer in design to that of the Gamecock than the Grebe or Gorcock, and the empennage was almost identical to that of the Gamecock.
• The "'Gloster Gorcock "'was a single-engined single-seat biplane fighter aircraft produced to a United Kingdom Air Ministry contract completed in 1927.
• Gloster had, with the Gorcock produced an aircraft much faster than its contemporaries and the Guan was designed to use supercharging to maintain this performance at height and raise the service ceiling above its competition.
• Service ceiling was 31, 000 ft ( 9, 450 m ) compared with 24, 000 ft ( 7, 315 m ) for the similarly-powered but slightly smaller-span Gorcock.
• The final, all-metal Gorcock had the geared Lion IV; this was Gloster's first all-metal aircraft . It had a top speed of 174 mph ( 280 km / h ) at 5, 000 ft ( 1, 525 m ), some 30 mph ( 48 km / h ) faster than contemporary fighters.