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	Gloster Aircraft Co
		The nucleus of the Gloster Aircraft Company was formed in 1915 although it was initially called the Gloucestershire Aircraft Company.
		The Gloster VI named the “Golden Arrow” was the first Gloster monoplane and broke the World speed record at 336.31mph on September 10th 1929.
		Glosters were building the Hawker Henley light bomber in 1939, as well as 1,000 Hurricanes in the first 12 months of the War.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /brockworthpc/page6.html (1075 words)

	ch10-3
		Wing-root inlets were used on a number of aircraft in the first decade of the jet fighter, but such inlets are not suitable for modern fighters of high thrust-to-weight ratio because of the large-size inlets required by these aircraft and the difficulty of integrating them with the wing.
		The aircraft, designated the He178, was a shoulder-wing monoplane in which the pilot's enclosed cockpit was placed ahead of the wing and the conventional landing gear (tall-wheel- type) retracted into the side of the fuselage.
		The wing span of the aircraft was 26 feet, 3 inches; the length was 24 feet, 6 inches; and the area of the wing was 85 square feet.
	www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/SP-468/ch10-3.htm (6601 words)

	Gloster Aircraft Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Gloster Aircraft Company was formed in 1917 as the Gloucestershire Aircraft Company.
		During Gloster's "heyday," in 1947, S/L Janusz Zurakowski was employed as an experimental pilot.
		In 1961, the company was merged with Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Limited to form Whitworth Gloster Aircraft Limited.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gloster (1324 words)

	3D 3ds Gloster Meteor Jet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Between the two world wars the Gloster Aircraft Company was responsible for a series of classic biplane fighters culminating in the Gloster Gladiator, the RAF's last biplane fighter.
		The Gloster E28/39 first flew from Cranwell on May 15th 1941 and the decision was made soon after by the Air Ministry to produce a jet fighter.
		Such was the pace of aircraft development at this time that by 1947 with the flight of the North American Sabre the Meteor was already verging on obsolescence.
	www.turbosquid.com /FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/321134 (525 words)

	Pavla 1/72 Gloster G.40 Pioneer (E.28/39)
		The Gloster E.28/39 was the first jet engined aircraft to fly in the United Kingdom.
		The aircraft was a low wing monoplane with a wide fuselage section to accommodate the airflow passages from the nose.
		The squat appearance of the Gloster G.40 is accurately captured with this gear and it should be plenty robust enough to support the finished model.
	www.internetmodeler.com /2004/november/first-looks/pavla_gloster.php (710 words)

	Gloster Gladiator MK.II
		Gloster Gladiator MK.II In 1937 the Royal Air Force's last biplane fighter the Gloster Gladiator did not satisfy the demands of modern air combat - the future belonged to high-speed monoplanes, and the war that approached Europe would become a war of 'next generation' technology.
		Since the intended operating area was the desert, the aircraft was equipped with a tropical carburetor intake, as well as a special container with water and provisions.
		Gloster Gladiator J-8A, "yellow F"/284 of Flygflottilj F 19 (Royal Swedish Air Force), Winter War, Finland, Lake Kemi, flown by 2Lt F H I Iacobi, January 1940.
	www.rodenplant.com /HTML/401.htm (645 words)

	The Gloster Gladiator
		For its day, the Gloster Gladiator was not only pretty to look at, but was a beautiful aircraft to fly, providing that you were not being chased by a Messerschmitt Bf109 at the time.
		The Gladiator was manufactured by the Gloucestershire Aircraft Company who, back in 1920 acquired the design rights to the French Nieuport Nighthawk fighter aircraft after that company closed down.
		In 1921, The Gloucester Aircraft Company received a contract to construct 50 of the Nighthawks for the Imperial Japanese Navy modified for use as a naval aircraft, plus an additional 40 aircraft that would be supplied in component form to the Yokosuka Air Arm.
	www.battleofbritain.net /0008.html (1104 words)

	Gloster Gladiator
		In May 1934 Gloster Aircraft was brought by Hawker Aircraft Limited, and this introduced substantial financial capital and aircraft structures know-how into the company.
		Company testing of the S.S.37 showed that it had realised the expected performance gains of the design, and so when the type was offered to the Air Ministry it aroused considerable interest.
		Gloster's private venture development of the already highly-refined Gauntlet brought the biplane fighter concept to the peak of technical perfection.
	www.aeroflight.co.uk /types/uk/gloster/gladiator/gladiator.htm (2790 words)

	Whittle, Frank (1907-1996)
		Whittle was born in Earlsdon, at a time when powered flight was still in its infancy, his boyhood coinciding with the use of aircraft in the World War I, the formation of the RAF in 1918, and Alcock and Brown’s flight across the Atlantic in 1919.
		After leaving school in 1923, he joined the RAF as an apprentice aircraft fitter and was later selected for pilot training at the RAF Staff College, Cranwell, where he was soon flying solo.
		The result was the Gloster E.28/39, which, powered by the Whittle jet engine, took off from Cranwell on May 15, 1941, on an historic 17-minute flight.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/W/Whittle.html (524 words)

	Pioneers
		Of the many honors received by both, the most significant honor was probably "The Charles Draper Prize" in 1992 which was given to both Hans von Ohain and Sir Frank Whittle for their efforts and contributions to aviation and mankind.
		After receiving support from investment bankers, Powers Jets was established in 1936 and Whittle was assigned to the company on special military duty to work on the design and development of his jet engine.
		The aircraft was completed in March 1941 and the engine in May 1941.
	www.aircraftenginedesign.com /custom.html3.html (944 words)

	Frank Whittle and the Worlds First Jet, Gloster E28/39.
		This long tradition, which saw many famous aircraft types that were built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company and Parnall in the south of the county to the Gloster Aircraft Company in the north, continues today in Rolls-Royce engines at Filton to Messier-Dowty and Smiths Industries Aerospace near Cheltenham.
		It was not until nine years later, having served as a test pilot and awarded a 1st class degree at Cambridge, that he was able to complete a proof of concept engine and ran it successfully at the British Thompson- Houston works at Rugby on 12th April 1937.
		Power Jets, the company that he had formed to develop his ideas, moved into the Ladywood Works on the east side of the Leicester Road at the beginning of 1938 with one employee.
	www.fiddlersgreen.net /AC/aircraft/Whittle-jet/info/info.php (745 words)

	Gloster Javelin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Gloster Javelin was an interceptor aircraft that served with Britain's Royal Air Force in the late 1950s and most of the 1960s.
		When it appeared that the Gloster design would be ready sooner and would be simpler and cheaper to build, the de Havilland submission was rejected; though the company was to continue development as a private venture that eventually resulted in the de Havilland Sea Vixen.
		The aircraft had a distinctive appearance, its broad delta wings surmounted by a huge finned T-tail.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gloster_Javelin (890 words)

	The Royal Air Force - History Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		As luck would have it, the Gloster Aircraft Company had a design, the F18/37, which needed a powerplant, and Whittle needed an aircraft to continue his development.
		The aircraft itself, appropriately chritened 'Pioneer', was designed by Gloster's chief designer, George Carter, with help from Frank Whittle for which Power Jets Ltd (Frank Whittle's company) was paid the princely sum of £500.
		After some initial concerns about the acceleration of the aircraft, possibly caused by the spongy grass of the airfield, the aircraft made a series of short 'hops' varying in distance between 100 and 200 yards.
	www.raf.mod.uk /history/e281.html (445 words)

	Gloster Meteor F9/40 airplane pictures & aircraft photos - RAF Museums
		As precursors of the Gloster Meteor, the first jet fighter to see service with the Royal Air Force, the F9/40 prototypes manufactured by the Gloster Aircraft Company pioneered the application of jet propulsion to combat aircraft design in the United Kingdom.
		Following his work on Britain's first jet research aircraft, the E28/39, Gloster Chief Designer, George Carter, submitted a design for a fighter aircraft powered by two jets to the Air Ministry in August 1940.
		Employed in essential early airframe and engine development trials, the F9/40 fleet laid the groundwork for the introduction into RAF service of the Gloster Meteor fighter and represented a milestone in the use of jet engines by the British aircraft industry.
	www.rafmuseum.org.uk /gloster-meteor-f9-40.htm (169 words)

	Welcome to Paper-AircraftWerks
		While there have been aircraft on which a shark mouth was painted as far back as World War I, the motif attained its fame in the US as a result of the fame of the AVG (American Volunteer Group).
		This was applied to many of the AVG aircraft as a one-piece decal in the last few months of their existence (before being disbanded in July 1942).
		It was in November 1940 when the British Air Ministry presented to the Gloster Aircraft Company a specification for a new fighter powered by a jet engine.
	www.paperaircraftwerks.com (690 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Gloster Gladiator - World War II Aircraft
		The Gloster Gladiator was the last in a series of British inter-war single-seat fighter aircraft produced by the Gloster Aircraft Company.
		The aircraft was soon ordered into production by the Air Ministry in July 1935 as the Gladiator Mark I, in an attempt to bolster the ranks of Fighter Command, providing a stop gap for a short period of time.
		The Gloster Gladiator was the RAF's last biplane fighter and at the outbreak of the Second World War, only four home-based RAF fighter squadrons were still equipped with the aircraft - the Spitfire and Hurricane were already phasing out the older biplane.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A10223885 (1393 words)

	“Turbo”—the Jet Engine’s Grand-daddy
		Though Heinkel Aircraft Company was first to have a successful jet stay aloft, it would be Messerschmitt’s Me-262 twin-engine jet that became the first mass-produced jet fighter.
		Whittle’s engine took to the air on May 15, 1941 in a design by the Gloster Aircraft Company. The E28/39 had a single Whittle engine and was the forerunner of England’s first jet fighter, the twin-engine Gloster Meteor.
		Britain’s first jet fighter was the Gloster Meteor, which went into action in July of 1944 fighting German V-1 “buzz bombs”. Those flying bombs used another simple type of jet, the ramjet, and were the first cruise missiles.
	www.kilroywashere.org /009-Pages/Woody/Turbo-RollsRoyce-final.htm (1045 words)

	Test Flying The Avro Arrow, by Jan Zurakowski, pg2
		After a year's course I was posted to the Aircraft and Armament Experimental Establishment at Boscombe Down, where I had the opportunity to test most of the Royal Air Force fighters, Fleet Air Arm aircraft and American Navy fighters.
		Two years later I left the Royal Air Force and accepted the position of experimental test pilot with Gloster Aircraft Company in England, dealing mainly with the development of the Meteor, a twin-jet interceptor aircraft, which was first flown in 1943.
		This was the first interceptor aircraft designed and built in Canada to the requirements of the Royal Canadian Air Force for the defence of Canada.
	www.avroarrow.org /AvroArrow/TestFlyingTheArrowpg2.htm (1429 words)

	Beamont Bio (90) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Following this action, he was posted to Hawker Aircraft Company in December 1941, where he began his career as a test pilot, flying Hurricanes and the new Typhoon.
		Squadron Leader Beamont returned to Hawker Aircraft in March 1943 as an experimental test pilot, flying advanced models of the Typhoon and the company’s newest fighter aircraft, the Tempest.
		At Gloster, he worked on the special Meteor IV, and later that year set a British speed record of 616 mph.
	www.au.af.mil /au/goe/eaglebios/90bios/beamon90.htm (543 words)

	jumbojet
		In February 1940, the Gloster Aircraft Company was chosen to develop the aircraft to be powered by the W1 engine - the Pioneer.
		German aircraft builder, Ernst Heinkel asked the university for assistance in new airplane propulsion designs and Pohl recommended his star pupil.
		A small aircraft was designed and constructed by Ernst Heinkel to serve as a test bed for the new type of propulsion system - the Heinkel He178.
	www.bsu.edu /web/mamalinowski/jumbojet.htm (602 words)

	Frank Whittle Summary
		By April 1941 the Gloster Aircraft Company had completed an experimental airframe, and this was fitted with an early Whittle engine for taxiing trials.
		Through his early days as an Aircraft apprentice (first at RAF Cranwell but latterly at RAF Halton) he maintained his interest in the Model Aircraft Society where he built replicas, the quality of which attracted the eye of his commanding officer, who also felt that Whittle was a mathematical genius.
		The Air Ministry was eager to obtain an operational jet aircraft, and authorised BTH to press ahead with a twin-engined jet interceptor, which would evolve into the Gloster Meteor.
	www.bookrags.com /Frank_Whittle (5965 words)

	The stories so far (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Gloster Aircraft Company meanwhile started the 1950s with the strength of their pioneering application of gas turbine propulsion during the Second World War.
		The FAW 8 held the unhappy distinction of being the last aircraft to be manufactured by the Gloster Aircraft Company although it continued with aircraft modification and repair for a number of years.
		The company was taken over by the Chesapeake and Ohio and Baltimore and Ohio Rail Roads in 1967 and became a part of the Chessie System in 1973.
	glostransporthistory.softdata.co.uk /JetAgermcStories.htm (11163 words)

	Roland P. "Bee" Beamontt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In December 1941, he was posted to Hawker Aircraft Company where his career as a test pilot began, flying Hurricanes and the new Typhoon.
		Now a wing commander, Beamont returned to Hawker Aircraft in March 1943 as an experimental test pilot, flying advanced models of the Typhoon and the company’s newest aircraft, the Tempest.
		He directed the test programs and made "first flights" on four outstanding aircraft: The B.2 Canberra, Britain’s first jet bomber; the P.1, Britain’s first supersonic aircraft; the F-1 Lightning, Britain’s first supersonic fighter; and the TSR.2, an advanced supersonic strike and reconnaissance aircraft.
	www.au.af.mil /au/goe/eaglebios/88bios/beamon88.htm (545 words)

	Paisley University Library Special Collections - Putnam Aeronautical 1971
		The opportunity has been taken, therefore, to record as many as possible of the eligible significant flights accomplished during the entire period, in the hope that the result will be of value as a source of reference and of interest to the greatest possible number of people.
		In 1939 he became a war correspondent and in 1940 was commissioned in the RAF for technical intelligence duties concerning new enemy aircraft and weapons, including flying bombs and rockets.
		With the very large number of aircraft types involved it has only been possible to describe in any detail the more important aircraft, but for completeness as many others as possible have been mentioned where appropriate...
	library.paisley.ac.uk /services/specialcoll/putnam/ptn71.htm (1069 words)

	EXN.ca \| Discovery
		Following immigration to Canada in 1952, he had joined Avro Aircraft in Toronto, and that year broke the sound barrier in a CF-100 Mk 4 fighter aircraft, the first Canadian design to fly at that speed.
		In 1945, after completing the Empire Test Pilot's Course he was posted to the Aircraft and Armament Experimental Establishment to test the first U.K. jet fighter, the de Havilland Vampire.
		Employed after the war testing jet fighter aircraft for the Gloster Aircraft Company, he demonstrated a new manoeuvre known as the "Zurabatic Cartwheel," which was considered to be the only new aerobatic manoeuvre in 20 years (1951).
	www.exn.ca /Stories/1999/06/28/55.asp (275 words)

	GLOSTER METEOR
		The aircraft experienced large trim changes, high stick forces, and self-sustained yaw instability (snaking) due to airflow separation over the thick tail surfaces.
		The first aircraft were delivered to the Royal Air Force on June 1, 1944 to No. 616 Squadron RAF and one was also sent to the US in exchange for a Bell YP-59A Airacomet for comparative evaluation.
		While at least 29 Meteors were lost as a direct result of enemy action in Korea, the vast majority of these were shot down by anti-aircraft fire while serving in a ground attack capacity.
	www.solarnavigator.net /aviation_and_space_travel/gloster_meteor.htm (962 words)

	The Last Flying Meteor Mk 8
		The future of these two vintage aircraft is currently uncertain, and whether they will remain flying with the “Vintage Pair” is unsure, but it is to be hoped that we have not seen the last of them in their right environment, the air.
		The aircraft last flew on the 6 September 1983, this was a ferry flight from RAF Leeming to the long-term storage facility at RAF Shrewsbury, and by this time it had amassed 4739.40 flying hours.
		In May 1988 the aircraft was dismantled at Shawberry and transferred by road to RAF Scampton.
	www.rada.org /meteor.html (856 words)

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