This article investigates Britain's first jet fighter. Also, a member of an RAF unit that worked on the Meteor tells about a ...
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The Gloster Meteor in Australian Service
Squadron would be the first Australian squadron to take jet aircraft into combat on the 29th of July, 1951 with the Gloster Meteor.
It was manufactured by Rolls Royce at Barnoldswick in Lancashire in 1943 and is of the type used in the RAF's first jet fighter the Gloster Meteor. It represents the start of the "jet age" of ...