Fortunately, the Allies weren't far behind with the Gloster Meteor prototype (DG206/G), taking to the air for its first official flight in early 1943. There were well over twenty variants of the ...

As noted by my colleague Peter Suciu, a likely reason for the Meteor’s relative lack of notoriety is that the RAF warbird never faced manned enemy aircraft. It was instead initially tasked with ...

IT MAY be one of the oldest remaining flightworthy aircraft, having been built in 1949 and retired in 1963, but the Classic Aircraft Trust’s Gloster Meteor T7 flew out of Coventry Airport today ...

The prone-pilot Gloster Meteor testbed, couch included, is on permanent R&R at Britain's Royal Air Force Museum Cosford. Davide Olivati Pulling into a loop at 410 knots, “half way up I glanced ...

The Gloster Meteor went down on its approach towards RAF West Raynham in Norfolk on 1 May 1951, killing both men on board. Last year, the RAF Sculthorpe Heritage Centre learned a farmer had found ...

About 90 per cent of crashes involved Gloster Meteors ... technology improved rapidly and by the start of the 1950s, the Meteor was becoming obsolete and was switched to training purposes.

A historic Gloster Meteor T7 jet aircraft has been carried by a Chinook helicopter from Imjin Barracks, Innsworth 1.5 miles to Gloucestershire Airport's Jet Age Museum.. The aircraft was Britain's ...

Ejection seat leader Martin-Baker keeps a pair of classic Gloster Meteor jets on its test team. One of two Gloster Meteor jets that Martin-Baker uses to evaluate its ejection seats. [Photo ...

A Gloster Meteor T7 trainer has been flown back to its birthplace in Coventry, England, following a more than 10-year rebuild project which cost over £500,000 ($800,000) to complete. Used by the ...

Design of the Gloster Meteor fell to George Carter and began in 1940 when turbojet technology was still in its infancy, yet while Germany gets the credit for having the first successful jet ...