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Aviation History
1950
1950 - 0475.PDF
FLIGHT, 9 March 1950 313 ".. fantastic tricks before high heaven./' Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure" READERS, we feel, will join incongratulating Gloster photo- grapher R. Adams on securing these unique impressions (for which breath- taking, for once, is an apt description) of a Meteor 8 fighter looping in for- mation with a Mk. 7 trainer. Though subject to considerable g, he wielded his Speed Graphic with confidence, in the knowledge that his "driver" was J. Zurakowski—one of the world's foremost aerobatic exponents—while the Mk. 8 was in charge of Capt. F. J. Vijzelaar, an experienced Dutch Ser- vice pilot "on loan" to the Gloster Company. The pictures are also a tri- bute to the control qualities of the Meteor—qualities inherent in all Glos- ter fighters for nearly thirty years past. Like the Meteor, the Grebe, Game- cock, Gauntlet and Gladiator were standard R.A.F. equipment in their time, and OH these types the technique of formation aerobatics was largely evolved in the Service. Zurakowski's performance on a Meteor 8 in last year's S.B.A.C. display was generally considered to be one of the finest pieces of demonstration flying yet seen in this—ox any other—country.
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