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    The Gloster Grebe was developed by the Gloster Aircraft Company from the Gloster Grouse (an experimental aircraft later developed as a trainer), and was...
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    of a Jupiter-powered version of the Grebe. Gloster commenced work on the project immediately thereafter. Gloster's design team, headed by Henry Folland...
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    Gloster Grouse was a British biplane of the 1920s developed by the Gloster Aircraft Company. Often referred to as the prototype to the Gloster Grebe,...
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    requirement was abandoned. In 1925 first the DH.53 light aeroplane and then Gloster Grebes had been launched from the airship R.33. In 1930, the US Navy airship...
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    1923, initially equipped with Sopwith Snipes. These were replaced by Gloster Grebes in January 1925, In turn, these were replaced by the Armstrong Whitworth...
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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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    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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  • Nightjar 1923 Gloster Gannet – single-seat ultra light biplane 1923 Gloster Grebe – single-seat day fighter biplane 1923 Gloster Grouse 1924 Gloster Gorcock...
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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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    for Sweden. The Grouse series was the progenitor of the later Gloster Grebe. The Gloster Nighthawk, or Mars VI, replaced the Dragonfly with either an Armstrong-Siddeley...
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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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  • US Navy HMS Grebe, an air base of Britain's Royal Navy in Alexandria, Egypt SUM-N-2 Grebe, a torpedo launcher of the US Navy Gloster Grebe, a fighter of...
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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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  • recapture a DH 53 Hummingbird light monoplane aircraft and, in 1926, two Gloster Grebe biplane fighters. The first parasite fighter was a German Albatros D...
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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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    kg) bombs Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Gloster Gamecock Gloster Grebe Hawker Woodcock Related lists List of aircraft of the Royal...
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    remained attached until the airship landed. In 1926, it carried two Gloster Grebe fighters releasing them at the Pulham and Cardington airship stations...
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  • Goldfinch Gloster Goral Gloster Gorcock Gloster Goring Gloster Grebe Gloster Grouse Gloster Guan Gloster Javelin Gloster Mars Gloster Meteor Gloster Meteor...
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    developed with Gloster Aircraft Company as the Gloster Hele-Shaw Beacham Variable Pitch propeller and was demonstrated on a Gloster Grebe, where it was...
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    reformed at RAF Duxford, equipped with a single flight of six Gloster Grebe fighters, the first Grebes to enter service with the RAF. These were supplemented...
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  • replaced from 1931 by Hawker Tomtits and Avro 626s. A single two seat Gloster Grebe provided conversion training on that type. in anticipation of the delivery...
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    Fokker F.IX Gloster Gambet Gloster Gamecock Gloster Gnatsnapper Gloster Goldfinch Gloster Goral Gloster Goring Gloster Grebe Gloster Mars Gloster Survey Gourdou-Leseurre...
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    series of design studies for an improved supersonic-capable version of the Gloster Javelin aircraft. Depending on the source, it is also known as F.153D,...
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    Siskin, Hawker Woodcock, Gloster Grebe, Gloster Gamecock, Fairey III, Fairey Flycatcher, Bristol Bulldog, Hawker Fury and Gloster Gauntlet. Then the Bristol...
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  • impressed into RNZAF service in 1939. Used for communications. NZ584 Gloster Grebe 3  United Kingdom Single-seat fighter biplane Two-seat advanced trainer...
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    The Gloster F.5/34 was a British fighter of the 1930s. It was a single-seat, single-engine monoplane of all-metal cantilever construction; the undercarriage...
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    Hyena Fairey Ferret Fairey Flycatcher Fokker C.V Fokker D.XVI Gloster Gnatsnapper Gloster Grebe Handley Page Hampstead Hawker Danecock Hawker Hawfinch Hawker...
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  • torpedo bomber Gloster Gamecock fighter Gloster Gauntlet fighter Gloster Gladiator fighter Gloster Grebe fighter Gloster Nightjar fighter Gloster Sparrowhawk...
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  • biplane floatplane Gloster I 1925 & 1927 biplane floatplane Gloster III 1925 biplane floatplane Gloster IV 1926-1927 biplane floatplane Gloster VI Golden Arrow...
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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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