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The Gloster Javelin is a twin-engined all-weather interceptor aircraft designed and produced by the Gloster Aircraft Company.It was operated by the Royal Air Force from the mid-1950s until the late 1960s and was the final aircraft design to bear the Gloster name.
11 November 1960 - WF766 Gloster Meteor T.7, Aircraft & Armament Experimental Establishment, broke up in three miles North West of Lyme Regis, Dorset, one killed. [33] 21 November 1960 - XA825 Gloster Javelin FAW.6, 29 Squadron, flew into a hill four miles North East of Peebles while descending in cloud, two killed. [33]
A Gloster Javelin (FAW.9) XH791: crashed in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) during a ferry flight flown by 12 Group Ferry Unit from Calcutta, India to deliver the aircraft to 60 Sqn RAF at Tengah Air Base, Singapore. Both engines suffered centreline closure at 33,000 feet.
The Gloster Javelin, ordered into production in 1953, was the RAF's first purpose-designed all-weather jet fighter and equipped with air-to-air missiles.It suffered from high transonic wave drag due to the thick cross-section of its wing, limiting its speed.
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 ...
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. By May, all squadron pilots had converted ...
Before he fought back from being impaled by a javelin to earn a spot on the U.S. Olympic team, Elija Godwin admits he wasn’t an obedient patient. He’d wait until his mom left for work and the ...
Search and rescue team eventually found the wreckage of the plane 5 days later at a ravine with no survivors. [93] [94] [95] 21 July: an Indonesian Air Force CN-235 (A-2301) crashed while on landing approach to Malikus Saleh Airport, Aceh. 3 Indonesian Army officers were killed, while 11 passengers including 2 flight crew were seriously injured.