What’re these?
I’m asking because I’m playing a guessing game.
Looking at the tail… that just screams “De Havilland!”
I’m guessing they’re Brits because Canooks had
Vampires and I don’t remember seeing any of these
at the local airfields…
And I think we started putting the maple leaf
in our roundels way back too..
Gloster Meteor Jet Fighters.
ReplyDeleteServed from the end of WW2 to the last 1950s.
Gloucester Meteor, Mk III I believe
ReplyDeleteGloster Meteor.
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ReplyDeletePaul J
British airplane are fun to look at but after working on them for years I gotta say they a pain in the ass. I always expected them to require the logbooks to be sealed with PRC upon delivery.
ReplyDeleteLooks like the Meteor fighter, first operational jet fighter
ReplyDeleteI'm sure you already know. But those are supposedly British G41 Gloster Meteors
ReplyDeleteM/GAB: per ChatGPT:
ReplyDeleteThese are Gloster Meteor jet fighters, specifically RAF Meteors from the late 1940s–early 1950s.
Identification
Key visual clues in the photo:
• Twin-engine jet nacelles mounted midway along straight wings
• Twin tail booms with a high-mounted horizontal stabilizer
• RAF roundels (blue-white-red) on wings and fuselage
• Early jet-era canopy and overall proportions
These features rule out the de Havilland Vampire (single engine) and clearly match the Gloster Meteor.
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About the Gloster Meteor
• Country: United Kingdom
• First flight: 1943
• Operational debut: July 1944
• Distinction:
👉 The only Allied jet fighter to see combat during World War II
Bottom Line
• Aircraft: Gloster Meteor F.4
• Squadron: No. 616 Squadron RAF
• Year: ~1946–1947
• Confidence level: High (for squadron and era)
The squadron code for 616 is YQ. These Meteors all have ON as the code which means they belong to 124 Squadron which converted from Spitfires to Meteor F3s in April 1945.
DeleteAl_in_Ottawa
Brit Gloster (I used to call em Glosteor) Meteor aircraft, saw them down in S. America in the early 1960's back when I was a wee lad.
ReplyDeleteGloster Meteors, the first operational jet fighter. To keep the technology from falling into German hands they were restricted to shooting down V1 "doodle bugs" over the English channel in the summer of 1944.
ReplyDeleteAl_in_Ottawa
I *think* they are Gloster Meteors. But don't quote me on that. (Just checked and yep - that's what they are.)
ReplyDeletehttps://www.iwm.org.uk/history/gloster-meteor-the-only-allied-jet-fighter-of-the-second-world-war
They look like Gloster Meteors, if so the only Allied jet fighter WWII
ReplyDeleteReckon that there is a Gloster Meteor. https://simpleflying.com/british-jet-fighter-gloster-meteor/
ReplyDeleteGloster Meteor, Britain's first operational jet fighter.
ReplyDeleteEarly version of the Gloster Meteor (the tail is the hint).
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ReplyDeleteGloster Meteor, very early jet fighter
ReplyDeleteI’da SWORN that thing was a de Havilland. The thing has beautiful lines - for a jet…
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