11/13/2023 0 Comments Tim armstrong plane![]() ![]() ![]() Headed by George Carter, the Gloster design team collaborated very closely with Frank Whittle and Power Jets Limited at Lutterworh to bring this aircraft to fruition. This resulted in Britain’s first jet propelled aeroplane, the experimental Gloster Whittle Pioneer. The Gloster Aircraft Company’s (GAC’s) pioneering work with jet powered aircraft had begun in February 1940 with a contract to design and build an aeroplane to specification E28/39. Additionally, there was also the Lippisch / Messerschmitt designed Me 163 Rocket propelled interceptor fighter that saw limited action at the end of the war. ![]() These included the Arado Ar 234 Blitz Series, Gotha 229, Heinkel He 162 & He 280 and the Messerschmitt Me 262. Although Frank Whittle, in the face of almost insuperable difficulties, had run the world’s first gas turbine turbojet at the British Thomson-Houston works at Rugby in April 1937, Britain had been very slow to exploit the potential of the turbojet powered aeroplane.Īs has been noted in several other papers in this series, this was not the case with Germany, and by the end of the Second World War the enemy had numerous different types of jet aircraft under development and in production. The Gloster Meteor, which saw very limited action at the end of the Second World War, mainly against the V1 Flying Bomb, was the first Allied jet-propelled aircraft. Gloster Meteor NF.14 WS841 of 264 Squadron RAF at Blackbushe Airport, Hants, in 1955 – Photo – RuthAS / CC BY () ![]()
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