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Sir Frank Whittle was an English inventor. He was born in 1907 at Leamington. He invented the jet propulsion engine for aircraft, first used in the Gloster E 2839 aircraft in 1941.
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The Armstrong Whitworth Meteor NF was a series of British two-seater night fighters developed from 1949 by Armstrong Whitworth from the Gloster Meteor fighter aircraft. The Armstrong Whitworth Meteor NF series were low-wing cantilever monoplanes of metal construction powered by two Rolls-Royce Derwent 8 turbojets, delivering a top speed of 580 mph (slightly improved to 585 mph in the last of the series, the Mk 14) and a range of 1580 km. They were armed with four Hispano 20 mm cannons arranged in two pairs in the wings outboard of the engine nacelles.
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The Commonwealth Aircraft CA-27 Sabre (Avon-Sabre) was an Australian single-seater fighter aircraft based on the American F-86 Sabre. The CA-27 was designed as a replacement for the Australian Air Force's Gloster Meteor fighters, which by the 1950s had become obsolete. The CA-27 was a low-wing cantilever monoplane with a 35 degree sweepback to the wings in service from 1956 to 1983, and was powered by a Commonwealth Aircraft Avon RA.7 Mk 26 turbojet (built under license from Rolls-Royce) providing a top speed of 1127 kmh and a maximum range of 1853 km with drop tanks. Fixed armaments consisted of two 30 mm calibre Aden Mk 4 cannons in the sides of the forward fuselage. Four under-wing hard points could also carry 2000 lbs of disposable stores including AIM-9 air-to-air missiles, free-fall bombs and clusters of unguided rockets.
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The Gloster Gladiator was a British made biplane used by the Swedish and Finnish air forces during the Second World War. It had a top speed of 253mph. It was armed with 2 .303 inch Browning machine-guns in the fuselage. It had a range of 428 miles.
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The Gloster GA5 Javelin was a British two-seater all-weather fighter aircraft in service with the RAF from 1956 to 1968. The Gloster Javelin was a mid-wing monoplane of Delta configuration powered by two Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire 203 turbojets providing a top speed of 1130 kmh and a range of 1530 km. Armaments varied with the model, the first models had four 30 mm Aden guns mounted two in each wing, later models had two 30 mm cannons, one mounted in each wing and the capacity to carry four Firestreak air-to-air missiles carried on four under-wing hard points. The Gloster Javelin was the last production aircraft produced by the Gloster company.
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The Gloster Meteor was a British single-seat twin-jet fighter monoplane of the Second World War. It was the only Allied jet-propelled aeroplane to go into operational service during the war, and was armed with four 20 mm British Hispano cannons mounted alongside the pilot and firing forward. A camera gun was also included in the fuselage nose which was linked to the cannon firing mechanism, or could be used independently. The Gloster Meteor F1 was powered by two Rolls-Royce Welland centrifugal turbojets providing a top speed of 410 mph, the F4 model was powered by two Rolls-Royce Derwent 5 engines providing a top speed of 550 mph.
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The Gloster Whittle E28/39 was Britain's first jet aircraft.
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The Armstrong Whitworth Prone Pilot Meteor 8 was a British research aircraft of the 1950's. The Prone Pilot Meteor 8 was a modified Gloster Meteor Mk 8, with an extended nose forward of the normal pilot's cockpit, this extended nose containing an extra cockpit, fully equipped, and accommodating a pilot in a semi-prone position. The Prone Pilot Meteor 8 was developed for general assessment of the semi-prone pilot's position in high-speed aircraft.
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The duchess of Gloster is a character in King Richard II.
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The Duke of Gloster is a brother of the King in King Henry V. The
Duke of Gloster is uncle to the King in King Henry VI part I and in King Henry VI part II. The Duke of Gloster is a brother to the King in King Richard III.
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