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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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 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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Battle of the Imjin River (redirect from Battle of Gloster Hill)
Imjin), also known as the Battle of Solma-ri (Korean: 설마리 전투) or Battle of Gloster Hill (글로스터 고지 전투) in South Korea, or as Battle of Xuemali (Chinese: 雪马里战斗;...
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The Gloster II was a British racing floatplane of the 1920s. A single-engined biplane, two were built to compete in the 1924 Schneider Trophy air race...
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Gloucestershire Regiment (redirect from The Glosters)
The Gloucestershire Regiment, commonly referred to as the Glosters, was a line infantry regiment of the British Army from 1881 until 1994. It traced its...
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Nieuport Nighthawk (redirect from Gloster Nighthawk)
the Nighthawk were purchased by the Gloster Aircraft Company, who also hired Folland as chief designer. Gloster proceeded to produce a number of derivatives...
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The Gloster IV was a single-engined biplane racing floatplane designed and produced by the British aviation manufacturer Gloster Aircraft Company. In response...
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The Gloster Guan was a single-engined single-seat experimental biplane fighter built in the United Kingdom to test the performance of fighters using supercharged...
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Harry Armstrong (diplomat) (redirect from Sir Harry Gloster Amstrong)
"Harry" Gloster Armstrong KCMG KBE (17 January 1861 – 6 February 1938), was an Irish-born English diplomat, spy and businessman. Henry Gloster Armstrong...
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The Gloster Meteor is a twin-engined jet fighter, the first jet aircraft to serve with the RAF and the only Allied jet aircraft to reach combat in World...
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No. 3 Squadron RAAF (redirect from No. 69 Squadron RFC)
RAF stocks. Initially, it used two obsolete biplane types, the Gloster Gauntlet and Gloster Gladiator, for close air support, along with the Westland Lysander...
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York: MetroBooks. ISBN 1-58663-762-2. Butler, Phil; Buttler, Tony (2006). Gloster Meteor - Britain's celebrated first generation jet. Hinckley, England:...
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by Gloster Meteor NF11s in August 1951. In November 1957 the squadron moved to RAF Acklington in Northumberland where it was re-equipped with Gloster Javelins...
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RAF service such as the Gloster Meteor and the de Havilland Venom. The all-weather/night fighter role was filled by the Gloster Javelin. Successively improved...
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Action. In 1967, he produced a children's drama series, The Flower of Gloster (1967). The serial, about four youngsters who take a narrow boat from North...
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heavily armed than any Allied fighter, including the British jet-powered Gloster Meteor. The Allies countered by attacking the aircraft on the ground and...
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straight-wing aircraft powered by centrifugal flow engines such as the Gloster Meteor and the Vampire – and later swept wing, axial flow-engined combat...
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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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Robinson, Private Chef, New York, NY (eliminated after the dessert) Tom Gloster, Executive Chef, Lula Trattoria, Mineola, NY (winner) 246 8 "Big Hitters"...
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Company. It was the second jet fighter to be operated by the RAF, after the Gloster Meteor, and the first to be powered by a single jet engine. Development...
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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...
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Venom FAW.22 XG737 English Electric Canberra T.17 WH740 Gloster Meteor NF.13 WM367 (nose) Gloster Meteor NF.14 WS760 Handley Page Jetstream T.1 XX494 Hawker...
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The first new official record in the post-war period was achieved by a Gloster Meteor F Mk.4 in November 1945, at 975 km/h (606 mph). The first aircraft...
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well as from land bases defending ports and attacking enemy shipping. Gloster Sea Gladiator Carrier-borne version of the Gladiator fitted with an arrestor...
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gases - which was a much more complex solution. The British experimental Gloster E.28/39 first flew on May 15, 1941, powered by Sir Frank Whittle's turbojet...
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subsonic aircraft, such as the Supermarine Spitfire, Bf 109, P-51 Mustang, Gloster Meteor, He 162, and P-80, have relatively thick, unswept wings, and are...
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No. 68 Squadron RAF; flying Gloster Meteor NF.11 (1957–59) until reformation as No.5 Squadron flying Gloster Javelin. No. 69 Squadron RAF; flying English...
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Whitworth and primarily produced by A.W. Hawksley Ltd, a subsidiary of the Gloster Aircraft Company. It was one of many aircraft which entered service with...
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tentative contract with the Gloster Aircraft Company for a simple aircraft specifically to flight-test the W.1, the single-engine Gloster E.28/39. Whittle had...
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