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    The Gloster Gauntlet was a single-seat biplane fighter designed and produced by the British aeroplane manufacturer Gloster Aircraft in the 1930s. It was...
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  • Look up gantlet, gauntlet, or gauntlets in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gauntlet or the gauntlet may refer to: Gauntlet (glove), protective gloves...
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    used by both day and night squadrons. Gloster, being already engaged with development of the Gloster Gauntlet, did not initially respond to the specification...
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  • Gloster TC.33 – four-engined bomber/transport biplane 1932 Gloster TSR.38 – three-seat torpedo/spotter/reconnaissance biplane 1934 Gloster Gauntlet –...
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  • Specification F.7/30, which sought to introduce a new fighter to succeed the Gloster Gauntlet. The Type 224 was powered by a Rolls-Royce Goshawk engine, which used...
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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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  • as opposed to 210 Finnish aircraft shot down. Polikarpov I-15 Gloster Gauntlet Gloster Gladiator Hawker Hurricane Messerschmitt Bf 109 Morane-Saulnier...
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  • not find any aircraft after 1940.[citation needed] Bristol Bulldog Gloster Gauntlet Fokker D.XXI Hawker Nimrod/Nimrodderne Fokker C.V Hawker Dantorp Heinkel...
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    The Gloster Meteor was the first British jet fighter and the Allies' only jet aircraft to engage in combat operations during the Second World War. The...
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    The Gloster E.28/39, (also referred to as the Gloster Whittle, Gloster Pioneer, or Gloster G.40) was the first British turbojet-engined aircraft first...
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  • undercarriage designs, being contracted by the Gloster Aircraft Company to provide oleo struts for the Gloster Gauntlet biplane. In 1935, as the business expanded...
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    South Africa supported Finland during the Winter War and supplied 25 Gloster Gauntlets to the Finnish air force. During World War II South Africa, along...
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    RAF Fighter Command in July 1937, being primarily replaced by the Gloster Gauntlet. but continued to serve the RAF for a few years with Service Flying...
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  • Aircraft GAL.56 (RAF) tailless swept wing glider Gloster E.28/39 (RAF) jet propelled aircraft Gloster Gauntlet (RAF) obsolete fighter used for meteorological...
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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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    squadrons of Fokker C.V reconnaissance aircraft from 1923 to 1932, when 17 Gloster Gauntlet fighters were purchased to form two new squadrons. In 1937, ten Fokker...
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  • obsolete biplane squadrons – generally outfitted with Bristol Bulldog, Gloster Gauntlet and Hawker Fury biplane fighters leading up to, and through the period...
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    fighter capable of a flying speed of 250 mph (400 km/h) to replace the Gloster Gauntlet biplane. R. J. Mitchell designed the Supermarine Type 224 to fill this...
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    Hawker Woodcock, Gloster Grebe, Gloster Gamecock, Fairey III, Fairey Flycatcher, Bristol Bulldog, Hawker Fury and Gloster Gauntlet. Then the Bristol...
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    France No. 111 Squadron RAF July 1934 – October 1939 Bristol Bulldog Gloster Gauntlet Hawker Hurricane No. 124 Squadron RAF July–September 1943 Supermarine...
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    May 1935, the unit became the first squadron to be equipped with the Gloster Gauntlet which they flew until March 1939. In 1938, No. 19 Squadron became the...
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  • Bristol Bulldog IIA 15/01/30 Sqn Ldr W E G Bryant Gloster Gauntlet 09/36 Sqn Ldr Cecil Bouchier Gloster Gladiator 05/37 Sqn Ldr H M Pearson Supermarine...
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    many 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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  • 23 1929 1944 Focke-Wulf Fw 44 J Stieglitz  Germany 0 35 1940 1960 Gloster Gauntlet II  United Kingdom 1 24 1940 1945 Supplied by the South African government...
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    P-16 Blériot-SPAD S.510 Boeing P-12E Model 234 Fiat CR.30 Fiat CR.32 Gloster Gauntlet Hawker Fury Kawasaki Army Type 92 Fighter Polikarpov I-15 PWS-10 Related...
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    equipped with Gloster Gauntlet fighter. However, by now the Gauntlet was considered by many to be outdated, and as a result the Gauntlets were replaced...
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    The Gloster F.9/37, also known as the Gloster G.39, was a British twin-engined design from the Gloster Aircraft Company for a cannon-armed heavy fighter...
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    A heavily modified Gloster Meteor F8 fighter, the "prone position/prone pilot" Meteor, was used by the Royal Air Force in 1954 and 1955 to evaluate the...
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  • ? 1 Gloster Gauntlet UK Fighter 1939–1943 6 Gloster Gladiator Mk I & II UK Fighter 1939–1941 31 Gloster Survey UK Transport 1933–1942 1 Gloster Meteor...
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    leving 2 Squadron equipped with Furys, supplemented by three old Gloster Gauntlets inherited from 430 Flight RAF. In March 1941, the squadron was planned...
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