The Gloster Meteor T7 - Britain's first operational jet plane, developed in 1940 - was lifted out of Imjin Barracks, Innsworth, by an RAF Chinook. It was flown 1.5 miles (2.4km) above the rooftops ...

Design of the Gloster Meteor fell to George Carter and began in 1940 when turbojet technology was still in its infancy, yet while Germany gets the credit for having the first successful jet ...

Fortunately, the Allies weren't far behind with the Gloster Meteor prototype (DG206/G), taking to the air for its first official flight in early 1943. There were well over twenty variants of the ...

A Gloster Meteor T7 trainer has been flown back to its birthplace in Coventry, England, following a more than 10-year rebuild project which cost over £500,000 ($800,000) to complete. Used by the ...

The Gloster Meteor went down on its approach towards RAF West Raynham in Norfolk on 1 May 1951, killing both men on board. Last year, the RAF Sculthorpe Heritage Centre learned a farmer had found ...

The prone-pilot Gloster Meteor testbed, couch included, is on permanent R&R at Britain's Royal Air Force Museum Cosford. Davide Olivati Pulling into a loop at 410 knots, “half way up I glanced ...

Ejection seat leader Martin-Baker keeps a pair of classic Gloster Meteor jets on its test team. One of two Gloster Meteor jets that Martin-Baker uses to evaluate its ejection seats. [Photo ...

The Gloster Meteor T7 - Britain's first operational jet plane, developed in 1940 - was lifted out of Imjin Barracks, Innsworth, by an RAF Chinook. It was flown 1.5 miles (2.4km) above the rooftops ...

As noted by my colleague Peter Suciu, a likely reason for the Meteor’s relative lack of notoriety is that the RAF warbird never faced manned enemy aircraft. It was instead initially tasked with ...