Showing posts with label Armstrong Whitworth Meteor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Armstrong Whitworth Meteor. Show all posts
Thursday, 2 June 2016

Armstrong Whitworth Meteor F.8 "Prone Pilot" & other experiments

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Now, this is the last post about the Armstrong Whitworth Meteor and, therefore we are covering the prototypes of it, spanning from the 195...
Wednesday, 1 June 2016

Armstrong Whitworth Meteor NF.14 - British users, part two

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This is the final post about the "regular" Meteor NF. The Meteor NF.14 was the final development of the Meteor NF series. It m...
Tuesday, 31 May 2016

Armstrong Whitworth Meteor NF.14 - British Users, part one

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The squadrons covered in this post are: No. 33 Squadron: The Meteors NF.14 replaced the De Havilland Venom NF.2 in October 1957 and wa...
Monday, 30 May 2016

Armstrong Whitworth NF.14 - Foreign Users

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It's time for the foreign users of the last variant of the Meteor Night Fighter. Biafra: In the context of the Nigerian civil war,...
Sunday, 29 May 2016

Armstrong Whitworth Meteor NF.13 - British Users

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As the history of the Meteor NF.13 seems to be linked to the Suez crisis... now it's the turn of the British users of this aircraft. ...
Saturday, 28 May 2016

Armstrong Whitworth Meteor NF.13 - Foreign Users

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Today it's the turn for the foreign users of the Meteor NF.13 which weren't few of them. Egypt: In 1955 the Egyptian governmen...
Friday, 27 May 2016

Armstrong Whitworth Meteor NF.12

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After the brief post about the Japanese airplane, we're back in the United Kingdom with the Meteor. The Meteor NF.12 was a developme...
Wednesday, 25 May 2016

Armstrong Whitworth Meteor NF.11 - British Users, part three

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We forgot to include a technical description of the airplane. We're sorry. As the De Havilland Mosquito NF variant was becoming obso...
Tuesday, 24 May 2016

Armstrong Whitworth Meteor NF.11 - British Users, part two

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The squadrons covered today are: No.87 Squadron RAF: When the 2nd Tactical was assigned to Germany in 1st January 1952, the No. 87 Squ...
Monday, 23 May 2016

Armstrong Whitworth Meteor NF.11 - British Users, part one

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Today we start a series of posts about the British users of the Armstrong Whitworth Meteor. The squadrons/units covered in this post are: ...
Sunday, 22 May 2016

Armstrong Whitworth Meteor NF.11 - French Users

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As the French Air Force wanted to update their fighter fleet, and after testing a pair of Meteor MK.IV with very good results, the French ...
Saturday, 21 May 2016

Armstrong Whitworth Meteor NF.11 - Various foreign users

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Note: So far we're only covering those variants of the Gloster Meteor built and designed by Armstrong Whitworth. The Armstrong Whitw...