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1945
1945 - 1397.PDF
•7° FLIGHT Height - - 13ft Wing area 374 jq. ft Exhaust efflux. Trails ofgases leaving the two Rolls-Royce power unitsof the Meteor. They are not always visible. Onthe left is the normal • appearance. Details of the Meteor : Two Rolls»Ro By G. GEOFFI DETAILS of the Meteor twin turbine jet plane pub-lished in last week's issue indicated the general linesof the Gloster Aircraft Company's latest single-seat, low-wing monoplane. This was the first Allied jet fighter to go into combat. It first flew experimentally in March, 1943, and in the interim many improvements have been effected. In the summer of 1944 it was used with success against the ,Vi flying bomb, and provided useful training for pilots for ensuing action on the Western front. The first success was on August 4th, and subsequently Meteor pilots shot down a substantial number of flying, bombs, the speed of which, it will be remembered, exceeded 400 m.p.h. Naturally, the Meteor is of greatly superior speed, but no actual figure may be quoted at this stage of progress. Notable for its extremely clean design and smooth finish, the Meteor—successor to the Gloster Company's experi- mental jet-propelled aircraft of 1941, the single-engined The high position of the tail,necessary to avoid the slip- stream from the power units,has introduced a certain amount of complication in that bothrudder and elevator are '' split.'' •JZ Although appearing large in proportion to the wing, the jet power units are of excellentstreamline shape. The tail-up attitude in this view is, of course, due to the tricycle undercarriage.
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