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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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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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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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 a larger twin-engined fighter aircraft, which became the Gloster Meteor, the first Allied jet fighter. British industrial manufacturer Rover...
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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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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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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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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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