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Another Gloster proposal for a strike variant as an English Electric Canberra replacement, which led to a draft OR.328, was cancelled on 20 March 1956. [6] In a 3 May 1956 memo, the Ministry of Supply's Walter Monckton stated "the sooner Thin Wing Javelin is dropped the happier I shall be because every week of further development is a waste of ...
Initial work started with fitting a thinner-section wing to a Javelin fuselage but as the project developed the changes became so great that it would effectively have been a different aircraft albeit having an outward resemblance to the Javelin. The Gloster P.370 to F.153D for "Thin Wing Gloster All Weather Fighter, an update of the initial F ...
Thin-wing Javelin One project that got beyond the drawing board was a supersonic development of the Gloster Javelin , the P370, powered by two BOl.6, 7, or 7SR engines. The design evolved into the P376 with two BOl.21R engines rated at 28,500 lbf (127 kN) with reheat.
Gloster thin-wing Javelin; S. Gloster Sparrowhawk; Gloster Survey; T. Gloster TC.33; Gloster TSR.38; V. Gloster VI This page was last edited on 9 February 2023, at 20
Returning groggy from a holiday weekend (which was, after all, held in its honor), the Department of Defense was slow out of the gate on Tuesday, awarding a bare half-dozen contracts worth no more ...
Gloster Javelin FAW.1 between August 1957 and January 1961; Gloster Javelin FAW.5 between September 1958 and October 1960; Gloster Javelin FAW.4 between November 1959 and January 1961; No. 112 Squadron RAF – operating: [18] de Havilland Vampire FB.5 between July 1953 and February 1954; Canadair Sabre F.4s between January 1954 and April 1956
No 2 Squadron RAF – 1955–1957; operated the Gloster Meteor FR.9 and later the Supermarine Swift FR.5. [1] No. 3 Squadron RAF – 1953–1957 and 1959–1961, 1961–68; operated the Hawker Hunter F.4, the Gloster Javelin FAW.4 and the English Electric Canberra B(I).8 (1961–68). No. 5 Squadron RAF – 1962–1965; operated the Gloster ...
Gloster Javelin FAW.2 preserved wearing the markings of No. 46 Squadron which it served between August 1957 and June 1961. In January 1956, the unit began converting to Javelins , [ 27 ] and the first arrived in February, together with eight Meteor NF 11s: the NF 12s were sent off to No. 72 Squadron RAF .