The Gloster Meteor was the first British jet fighter and the Allies' only jet aircraft to engage in combat operations during the Second World War. The...
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The Gloster E.28/39, (also referred to as the Gloster Whittle, Gloster Pioneer, or Gloster G.40) was the first British turbojet-engined aircraft first...
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the Gloster Meteor, the only jet to be used in combat by the Allied Forces during the Second World War. First flying with the RAF in 1943, the Meteor commenced...
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A heavily modified Gloster Meteor F8 fighter, the "prone position/prone pilot" Meteor, was used by the Royal Air Force in 1954 and 1955 to evaluate the...
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150 aircraft. Gloster Aircraft developed and produced the only British jet aircraft to be operational during the war, the Gloster Meteor. Through the post-war...
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development of the Gloster Meteor. The first two operational turbojet aircraft, the Messerschmitt Me 262 and then the Gloster Meteor, entered service in...
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development of a larger twin-engined fighter aircraft, which became the Gloster Meteor, the first Allied jet fighter. British industrial manufacturer Rover...
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Brockworth (section Gloster Aircraft Company)
Typhoon; Gloster Meteor and Gloster Javelin and its runway became famous for the first flight of Sir Frank Whittle's turbo-jet aircraft. The Gloster Aircraft...
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Cazaux Air Base; the company's Meteor aircraft testbeds were flown from Chalgrove to France for them. Two Gloster Meteor T.7 aircraft, WL419 and WA638...
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RAF service such as the Gloster Meteor and the de Havilland Venom. The all-weather/night fighter role was filled by the Gloster Javelin. Successively improved...
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Rolls-Royce Welland (section Meteor testing)
first production jet engine. It entered production in 1943 for the Gloster Meteor. The name Welland is taken from the River Welland, in keeping with the...
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Havilland Vampire – (United Kingdom) Gloster E.28/39 – (United Kingdom) Gloster E.1/44 – (United Kingdom) Gloster Meteor – (United Kingdom) Lockheed P-80...
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The Gloster Meteor is a twin-engined jet fighter, the first jet aircraft to serve with the RAF and the only Allied jet aircraft to reach combat in World...
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a key milestone for jet propulsion, powering early versions of the Gloster Meteor, the Allies' first operational jet fighter. The W.2B/500 design was...
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heavily armed than any Allied fighter, including the British jet-powered Gloster Meteor. The Allies countered by attacking the aircraft on the ground and during...
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Michael Daunt (category Gloster Meteor)
person to fly the Gloster Meteor in March 1943, Britain's first production jet aircraft. He was the second person to fly the Gloster E.28/39 "Pioneer"...
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then the Gloster Meteor entered service within three months of each other in 1944; the Me 262 in April and the Gloster Meteor in July. The Meteor only saw...
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speed in excess of 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph). A Derwent Mk.8 from a Gloster Meteor was used in the jet propelled car Thrust1, which was built by Richard...
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1950s Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft built many Gloster Meteor, Hawker Seahawk, Hawker Hunter and Gloster Javelin jet fighters at their Bitteswell and Baginton...
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in a Gloster Meteor jet fighter which flew for the first time on 20 September 1945 at the start of a 298-hour flight test programme. Gloster Meteor A preserved...
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German jets, Britain's Gloster Meteor entered production soon after, and the two entered service around the same time in 1944. Meteors commonly served to...
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Aircraft in fiction (section Gloster Meteor)
original on 27 October 2011. Retrieved 17 August 2012. "Gloster Meteor NF11 (TT20) WD592". MeteorFlight.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016...
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Air Force Gloster Meteor collided with a Royal Navy de Havilland Sea Vampire near Paines Wood, Sussex. On 19 April 1955 two RAF Gloster Meteors collided...
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first new official record in the post-war period was achieved by a Gloster Meteor F Mk.4 in November 1945, at 975 km/h (606 mph). The first aircraft to...
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The Gloster Meteor enters squadron service in the United Kingdom. 27 July: First combat mission flown by a Gloster Meteor 4 August: Gloster Meteors shot...
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2019. Gloster Gamecock J7904 – reproduction Gloster E28/39 – replica Gloster Meteor F.8 WH364 Gloster Meteor NF.13 WM366 – on loan Gloster Meteor T.7 VW453...
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This is a very far from complete list: for example a total of 890 Gloster Meteors were lost in RAF service (145 of these crashes occurring in 1953 alone)...
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George Carter (engineer) (section Gloster)
as the Gloster Meteor. His later designs included the E.1/44. He supervised the design of the Gloster GA-5 delta-wing fighter (later the Gloster Javelin...
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Meteor (juggling), a juggling prop The Meteor hammer, a Chinese martial arts weapon or dance prop Gloster Meteor, the first British jet fighter and the...
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base was returned to the Royal Air Force. No. 266 Squadron, with the Gloster Meteor F.3, was stationed there from 4 November to 5 December 1946 and from...
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