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The Gloster Javelin is a twin-engined all-weather interceptor aircraft that served with Britain's Royal Air Force from the mid-1950s until the late 1960s. It was a T-tailed delta-wing aircraft designed for night and all-weather operations and was the last aircraft design to bear the Gloster name.
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The Gloster Javelin, ordered into production in 1953, was the RAF's first purpose-designed all-weather jet fighter and equipped with air-to-air missiles.It suffered from high transonic wave drag due to the thick cross-section of its wing, limiting its speed.
Javelin FAW 7s of No. 64 Squadron RAF in 1959. In 1952, the two-seat, delta winged Gloster Javelin was developed as an all-weather fighter that could fly above 50,000 feet (15,000 m) at almost the speed of sound. This modern aircraft proved to be too heavy to take off from the short airfield in Brockworth, and was instead fitted out to the bare ...
No. 228 Operational Conversion Unit was a Royal Air Force Operational conversion unit.It was formed in No. 12 Group at RAF Leeming from Nos. 13 and 54 OTUs in 1947. The tasking of the OCU was the training of night fighter crews and its aircraft were the de Havilland Mosquito, Gloster Meteor, Bristol Brigand, and Gloster Javelin over the years. [1]
11 November 1960 - WF766 Gloster Meteor T.7, Aircraft & Armament Experimental Establishment, broke up in three miles North West of Lyme Regis, Dorset, one killed. [33] 21 November 1960 - XA825 Gloster Javelin FAW.6, 29 Squadron, flew into a hill four miles North East of Peebles while descending in cloud, two killed. [33]
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No 2 Squadron RAF – 1955–1957; operated the Gloster Meteor FR.9 and later the Supermarine Swift FR.5. [1] No. 3 Squadron RAF – 1953–1957 and 1959–1961, 1961–68; operated the Hawker Hunter F.4, the Gloster Javelin FAW.4 and the English Electric Canberra B(I).8 (1961–68). No. 5 Squadron RAF – 1962–1965; operated the Gloster ...