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Aviation History
1952
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14 FLIGHT 18 APRIL 1952 rr The GA 5, Gloster's new all-weather, multi-purpose day and night fighter, is a plane of many ' firsts '. It is the first operational Delta fighter produced in Britain. The first twirv-engined Delta fighter to fly anywhere in the world. The first fighter after the Sapphire Meteor to carry a power plant exceeding 14,000 lbs. of static thrust, delivered by two mighty Armstrong Siddeley Sapphires. It is the first operational aircraft to spring from the brilliant research pioneering on the Delta plan-form undertaken by the Hawker Siddeley Group. Such leadership is not surprising, however, when you remember that Gloster also gave the world its first successful turbo-jet aircraft, the historic Whittle E.28/39 and the first jet plane to go into squadron service, the Meteor Mark I in 1944. Being ' first' is a Gloster tradition. Gloster GA/5 GLOSTER AIRCRAFT LIMITED Hucclecote, Gloucestershire MEMBER OF THE HAWKER SIDDELEY GROUP / PIONEER . . . AND WORLD LEADER IN AVIATION
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