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Gloster Meteor
« on: April 19, 2007, 10:20:48 PM »
The Gloster Meteor was the Allies' first operational jet fighter. Designed by George Carter, it first flew in 1943 and commenced operations on 27 July 1944 with 616 Squadron of the Royal Air Force (RAF). The Gloster Meteor was not an aerodynamically advanced aircraft, nor even the world's fastest aircraft on introduction; its limiting Mach number in a dive was actually slower than the Spitfire's, but George Carter and his design team at Gloster had succeeded in producing an effective jet fighter that served the RAF and other air forces for decades. Meteors saw action with the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in the Korean War and remained in service with numerous air forces until the 1970s. - Text source - internet


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Re: Gloster Meteor
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2007, 11:14:05 PM »
What an incredible info and images!!  :-obey But it is not lucky in combat- in first appearance RAF pilot of... Tempest thought thnat this is German jet and few of Meteors are damaged  :-roll

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Re: Gloster Meteor
« Reply #2 on: May 04, 2007, 10:43:46 PM »
Thank you, have you seen this before?

 In March 7th 1945 a Gloster Meteor F I (EE227) was sent to the Rolls-Royce Plant at Hucknall for installation of two R.B.50 "Trent" turboprop engines. EE227 was selected because it was already fitted with an enlarged wing spar so the new engines could be fitted with out to many problems. The RB-50 "Trent" engine was a Rolls-Royce Derwent turbojet engine fitted with a forward drive shaft, a reduction gearbox and a Rotol five-bladed propeller of a diameter of 7' 11''.

Six month later on the 20/10/1945 at the airfield at Church Broughton the Gloster "Trent" took to the air for the first time with Eric Greenwood at the controls, making the first flight of a turboprop powered aircraft in the world. A number of problems were found with the prop wash and directional instability,the "Trent was returned to Hucknall were these were fixed and the aircraft was flying again by March 1946, later smaller Rotol propellers were fitted.
   
In April 1948 the "Trent" Meteor was transferred to the Navy for testing, as they were interested in the use of turboprop aircraft for deck-operations. On the 22/9/1948 the aircraft was returned to Rolls-Royce, were it was restored to it's original condition, then being returned to RAF Farborough were it was scrapped in June 1949.

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Re: Gloster Meteor
« Reply #3 on: May 04, 2007, 10:52:34 PM »
Hey hey hey- lets say "source Let Let Let"- here it is image from Nico Braas collection  :-ok

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Re: Gloster Meteor
« Reply #4 on: May 04, 2007, 10:55:14 PM »
 :-red no out foxing you my friend  :-obey

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Re: Gloster Meteor
« Reply #5 on: May 04, 2007, 10:59:39 PM »
What does it mean foxing ?

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Re: Gloster Meteor
« Reply #6 on: May 04, 2007, 11:17:25 PM »
What does it mean foxing ?

It means to Beat through cleverness and wit  :)) its one of those stupid English sayings  :-ok

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Re: Gloster Meteor
« Reply #7 on: May 04, 2007, 11:35:38 PM »
Ooohh yeah- we have in Serbia also many terms which could not be translated and even then not underhanded. Well- foxing is something good ;)

And we have good story here- thank you :-razz  :-razz

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Re: Gloster Meteor
« Reply #8 on: May 05, 2007, 12:35:54 AM »
  This could as easily go in the Sabre thread, but here's a formation photo from 19 April 1956 as No. 66 Squadron Sabres are being replaced by a mixture of Hunter Mk. 4s and Meteor Mk. 8s.


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Re: Gloster Meteor
« Reply #9 on: May 05, 2007, 02:42:54 AM »
great image  :-ok Three great aircraft  :-eek
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Re: Gloster Meteor
« Reply #10 on: May 07, 2007, 02:21:35 PM »
Here it is some data about the Meteor in service of Armee de'l Air:

Meteor F- 4 - 2 samples
Meteor NF- 11 - 41 samples
Meteor NF- 13 - 2 samples
Meteor NF- 14 - 2 samples
Meteor TT 20 - 6 samples
Meteor T- 7 - 13 samples

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Re: Gloster Meteor
« Reply #11 on: May 09, 2007, 10:06:10 PM »
Here we have a NF 14a Meteor of the Armee de'l Air

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Re: Gloster Meteor
« Reply #12 on: May 24, 2007, 01:28:26 PM »
Some more shots of the Meteor, this time the Photo-Recce version the PR10.

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Re: Gloster Meteor
« Reply #13 on: May 24, 2007, 01:42:42 PM »
Nice- in last image Meteor and Canberra look similar :)

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Re: Gloster Meteor
« Reply #14 on: May 27, 2007, 05:50:49 AM »
Just for you my friend a Meteor and a Canberra, image found in a newsgroup, copyright unknown.


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