The Gloster Gladiator is a British biplane fighter. It was used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) (as the Sea Gladiator variant)...
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squadrons begun to be reequipped with more advanced fighters, such as the Gloster Gladiator, Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire. Gauntlets were increasingly...
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Fokker G.1 General Aircraft Hamilcar X Gloster Gamecock Gloster Gladiator Gloster Gauntlet Gloster Gnatsnapper Gloster Goring Hawker Audax Hawker F.20/27...
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under its own brand name. In that same year, Gloster produced one of its most famous aircraft, the Gladiator biplane. The 1935 merger of Hawker Aircraft...
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to the defense of Finnish Lapland, from January 7, 1940, with 12 Gloster Gladiator II fighters, five Hawker Hart bombers, and eight other planes. In...
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The following are operators of the Gloster Gladiator. Royal Australian Air Force No. 3 Squadron RAAF Belgium received 16 Mk I aircraft (G15-G30) and an...
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vehicle, an American unmanned vehicle Gloster Gladiator, a British biplane fighter aircraft designed in the 1930s Gladiator, the planned in-service name of...
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with No. 3 (Army Cooperation) Squadron in the Middle East, flying Gloster Gladiators initially, and later Hawker Hurricanes and P-40 Tomahawks. He achieved...
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flight of Hawker Audaxes escorted by Gloster Gladiators of No. 94 Squadron. In the resulting combat, two Gladiators were lost for one CR.42 shot down by...
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XXI Below are all the Finnish aces who have won victories with the Gloster Gladiator. Below are all the Finnish aces who have won victories with the Fiat...
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1940. Around this time the squadron received 22 Gloster Gladiator Mk.IIs to replace the Mk.Is The Gladiator may have looked like a First World War aircraft...
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several weeks, the island of Malta was protected by a small force of Gloster Sea Gladiator biplane fighters (subsequently supported by Hawker Hurricanes),...
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The Norwegians had dispatched fighters to intercept them, but the Gloster Gladiators were not able to catch up with the newer and faster German planes...
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the enemy. He was assigned to No. 80 Squadron RAF, flying obsolete Gloster Gladiators, the last biplane fighter aircraft used by the RAF. Dahl was surprised...
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shipboard operation, until shortly after the end of the war. The British Gloster Gladiator biplane, the Italian Fiat CR.42 Falco and Soviet I-153 sesquiplane...
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aircraft used by the Royal Hellenic Air Force in World War II. PZL P.24 Gloster Gladiator Bloch MB.150 AEKKEA-RAAB R-29 Bristol Blenheim Fairey Battle PBY...
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Aircraft in fiction (section Gloster Gladiator)
Retrieved 17 August 2012. "Gloster Gladiator Mk.I K8042/8372M" (PDF). Royal Air Force Museum London. Retrieved 17 August 2012. "Gladiator Collision". Ezraysnet...
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policing in Palestine. In February 1938, the squadron re-equipped with Gloster Gladiators, changing role to a fighter squadron, although at first it continued...
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opposed to 210 Finnish aircraft shot down. Polikarpov I-15 Gloster Gauntlet Gloster Gladiator Hawker Hurricane Messerschmitt Bf 109 Morane-Saulnier M.S...
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Gloster Gladiator fighter plane, ultimately being credited with destroying nine enemy aircraft between 1937 and 1939. In 1939, while flying a Gloster...
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aircraft registration code J 8, a Swedish designation for the 1937 Gloster Gladiator fighter aircraft J8, the Scrabble tile of which there is only one...
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of the trademark Gloster design elements including the tail and close-fitting cowling that resembled the earlier Gauntlet and Gladiator biplane fighters...
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being disbanded in 1919. It was reformed in 1937, initially with Gloster Gladiator biplane fighters, moving on to fly Supermarine Spitfires during the...
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German invasion, the Norwegian Army Air Service consisted of: 11 Gloster Gladiator biplane fighters (7 operational) 3 Armstrong Whitworth Scimitar biplane...
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service long after they ceased to be competitive. Designs such as the Gloster Gladiator, Fiat CR.42 Falco, and Polikarpov I-15 were common even in the late...
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operating a succession of different types, based in the UK, including the Gloster Gladiator. The only highlight of these years was the 1935 deployment to the...
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still fielded biplanes amongst their air wings, such as the British Gloster Gladiator and the Italian CR.42. As such, even as the first flights of the latter...
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propeller arc, however .303 Brownings were indeed synchronized on Gloster Gladiator and some other early WWII designs. Similar versions for a variety...
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evolved into the Hurricane were for a similar armament fitment to the Gloster Gladiator: four machine guns; two in the wings and two in the fuselage, synchronised...
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The Gloster Javelin is a twin-engined all-weather interceptor aircraft that served with Britain's Royal Air Force from the mid-1950s until the late 1960s...
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