Ultimately, the Meteor was not great and not terrible. It was a steady, reliable bird, and proved useful for the British and Allied air forces. The story of the Gloster Meteor begins with the ...

It was Britain’s first jet-powered aircraft—and the only Allied jet to see combat in WWII. Built to face Germany’s Me 262, the Gloster Meteor never got its ultimate duel, but it still broke records ...

The development of the jet is credited to Wilfred George Carter (1889-1969), aircraft engineer and chief designer at Gloster Aircraft Company, who began his work as early as 1940, with turbojet ...

In fact, the Gloster Meteor stayed close to home during World War II due to fears the aircraft's capabilities or technology would be revealed to the enemy. Meanwhile, over 1,000 Me 262 Swallows ...

Waterton, who later became a Paris-London speed-record holder (1947) and chief test pilot of Gloster Aircraft for seven postwar years. In the past two years, as aviation correspondent for London ...

The leading companies and some of their best-known past & present products: Hawker Aircraft (Hurricanes, Tempests, Typhoons); Gloster Aircraft (Gladiators, Meteors and soon, the new Javelins ...

GROUP CAPTAIN H. J. WILSON, R.A.F., piloting a Gloster Meteor aircraft powered with two Rolls Derwent gas turbine engines, regained the speed record for Great Britain on November 7, flying over a ...