Jetplane

  • The Gloster Meteor

    On this day 75 years ago the Gloster Meteor,  the first British jet fighter and the Allies’ only jet aircraft to achieve combat operations during WWII, made it’s first flight. Neill Michael Daunt was the first pilot to fly the Gloster Meteor on March  5 1943.   Despite Germany’s technological advantage, the Meteor was the first operational

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