Gloster Meteor

PThomasAF20080028.jpg

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Gloster Meteor

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Photo 1 is a starboard side ground view.
Photo 2 is a port side ground view.
Photo 3 is a starboard side ground view.

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Three b/w photographs on an album page

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PThomasAF20080028

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Gloster Meteor.
Designed to meet a 1940 requirement first flying in March 1943. This was the first operational R.A.F. jet fighter & was powered by de Havilland H1 turbojets. Production models used Rolls-Royce Wellands. The Meteor was used largely against the German flying bombs (V 1), which it dealt with very successfully. Exported to Argentina, Belgium, Denmark, Egypt & the Netherlands.

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“Gloster Meteor,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed November 4, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/23294.

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