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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 ...
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 ...
Javelin FAW 7s of No. 64 Squadron RAF in 1959. In 1952, the two-seat, delta winged Gloster Javelin was developed as an all-weather fighter that could fly above 50,000 feet (15,000 m) at almost the speed of sound. This modern aircraft proved to be too heavy to take off from the short airfield in Brockworth, and was instead fitted out to the bare ...
Pages in category "Gloster aircraft" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. ... Gloster thin-wing Javelin; S. Gloster Sparrowhawk;
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No. 228 Operational Conversion Unit was a Royal Air Force Operational conversion unit.It was formed in No. 12 Group at RAF Leeming from Nos. 13 and 54 OTUs in 1947. The tasking of the OCU was the training of night fighter crews and its aircraft were the de Havilland Mosquito, Gloster Meteor, Bristol Brigand, and Gloster Javelin over the years. [1]
Carried by Gloster Meteor and Supermarine Swift test aircraft. In RAF service from 1955 to 1958. Firestreak - Obsolete air-to-air missile. Carried by the English Electric Lightning and Gloster Javelin. In RAF service from 1957 to 1988. Red Top - Obsolete infrared homing air-to-air missile. Carried by the English Electric Lightning.
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