The 262 Swallow and Meteor F.8 featured different wing designs and capabilities. The Me 262 had four 30-mm MK 108 cannons, while the Meteor had 4 20mm cannons. It's unclear which jet fighter would ...

The Gloster Meteor entered service with the RAF on July 27, 1944, with No. 616 Squadron becoming the first unit to operate this warplane.

The Meteor was unfortunately outclassed there by the Communists’ MiG-15, so the Gloster jet was soon relegated to an air-to-ground role. It flew 4,800 total sorties with a loss of 30 aircraft.

The Gloster Meteor remained in service after the war, and a total of 3,875 were built – far more than any other British jet aircraft of the era. While the aircraft never engaged German jet ...

The BBC's Jon Kay reported from the jet's new home as it began its short journey from Imjin Barracks A historic jet aircraft has "flown" above Gloucestershire - carried by a helicopter. The ...

A historic Gloster Meteor T7 jet aircraft has been carried by a Chinook helicopter from Imjin Barracks, Innsworth 1.5 miles to Gloucestershire Airport's Jet Age Museum.

IT MAY be one of the oldest remaining flightworthy aircraft, having been built in 1949 and retired in 1963, but the Classic Aircraft Trust’s Gloster Meteor T7 flew out of Coventry Airport today ...

The prone-pilot Gloster Meteor testbed, couch included, is on permanent R&R at Britain's Royal Air Force Museum Cosford. Davide Olivati Pulling into a loop at 410 knots, “half way up I glanced ...

Gloster Meteor prepares for lift-off. This Meteor T.7 will be flown by helicopter to a new base at Staverton Credit: ... (HQ ARRC), the aircraft, an early 1950’s Meteor T.7, ...

The Gloster Meteor T7 - Britain's first operational jet plane, developed in 1940 - was lifted out of Imjin Barracks, Innsworth, by an RAF Chinook.