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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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During the Gloster years, "Zura" as he came to be known, set an international speed record: London-Copenhagen-London, 4–5 April 1950 at Gloster's instruction to sell the aircraft to the Danish Air Force. 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 ...
The thin-wing Javelin refers to a series of design studies for an improved supersonic-capable version of the Gloster Javelin aircraft. Depending on the source, it is also known as F.153D , after its Air Ministry issued Operational Requirement , or the Super Javelin in some Gloster documents.
Gloster Javelin FAW.2 preserved wearing the markings of No. 46 Squadron which it served between August 1957 and June 1961. In January 1956, the unit began converting to Javelins, [27] and the first arrived in February, together with eight Meteor NF 11s: the NF 12s were sent off to No. 72 Squadron RAF. By May, all squadron pilots had converted ...
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 ...
Gloster Meteor T.7 Twin-engined two-seat training aircraft. No. 33 Squadron RAF: 1958-1962: Gloster Javelin: FAW.7: Twin-engined jet fighter/interceptor. [18] 1960-1962 FAW.9 No. 645 Volunteer Gliding Squadron Air Cadets: 1958-1960 Instrument Rating Squadron RAF: 1961-1963 Gloster Javelin T.3 Twin-engined jet fighter/interceptor. [18] Lightning ...
87 Squadron was again re-formed as part of the 2nd Tactical Air Force in Germany on 1 January 1952 at RAF Wahn with the Gloster Meteor NF11, with the main tasking being the defence of the Ruhr. After five years it moved to RAF Bruggen , and was equipped with the Gloster Javelin as an all-weather interceptor force until it was disbanded on 3 ...