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This jet ruled the skies - until the Cold War hit

It was the pride of post-war Britain - until it wasn’t. The Gloster Meteor was the RAF’s first jet, blazing into WWII to stop ...
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"Model ditching tests of a two-engined jet fighter; Gloster Meteor." Source: Royal Aircraft Establishment. Report Aero 1997.

Airplanes - Gloster Meteor ; Warren, C.H.E. & Chalmers, G.F. [authors] ; Ditching Operations; Royal Aircraft Establishment - Report Aero 1997 Material is subject to ...
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"Level speed tests of the Gloster Meteor with and without a one-hundred gallon overload tank, equipped with two Rolls-Royce engines." Source: Aeroplane and Armament ...

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