gorcock
moor cock
Lagopus Scoticus latin

Specifications (first Gorcock)

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 stagger and unequal span wings, having a strong resemblance to the Gamecock.

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.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, gorcock is a Scottish and Northern English name for the male of the Red Grouse.

The Gloster Gorcock was a single-engined single-seat biplane fighter aircraft produced to a United Kingdom Air Ministry contract completed in 1927.

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.

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.

The first Gorcock had a Lion IV engine, geared and producing 450 hp (335 kW) and the second an ungeared Lion VIII of 525 hp (390 kW).

Today, lagopus lagopus scoticus is in a heap of trouble.

It is usually classified as a subspecies of the Willow Grouse, but is sometimes considered to be a separate species Lagopus scoticus.

RED GROUSE Lagopus lagopus scoticus.

In Scotland, deer stalking and red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scoticus) hunting occurs sustainably because hunting licences are owned by the landholder.

In the book, the Old Man of Lochnagar sinks into a loch, where he goes haggis-hunting with "lagopus Scoticus," the "Scottish freshwater variant of Neptune."