Tamiya 61051 - 1/48 Gloster Meteor F.1 WWII  [61051]

Towards Gloster Meteor F.1

The Gloster Meteor finished up being 1st and just functional Allied jet to really indulge in World War II. It absolutely was in November 1940 whenever British Air Ministry offered toward Gloster Aircraft business a specification for a brand new fighter working on jet engine. Glostar straight away started this, in addition to the Air Ministry quickly put a purchase of prototypes to Gloster. A variety devices was in fact set up, plus one of these, the Halford H.1 engine by De Havilland made one of many prototypes fly the first time in March 1943. The latter, but ended up being different.
The F.1, first production variation, was in fact flown on 12 January 1944 with W.2B/23 engines manufactured by Rolls-Royce (1700lb). Besides the engines, the F.1 differed almost no from initial designs with four 20mm canons, tricycle landing gear and clear-view back canopy. Twenty F.1's had been stated completely, and most of these was indeed delivered to the No. 616 Squadron. Their 1st army success had been indeed achieved on 4 August 1944 whenever Flying Officer Dean shot down a German V1 rocket.

Since its first kill, Meteors destroyed a complete of thirteen V-1s plus it was at fact outstanding boost for morale not merely inside armed forces additionally the civilian population in England. Although changed by the improved F.3 and F.4 right after, the Gloster Meteor F.1 played a significant roll, and German Messerschmitt myself 262, to start out the entranceway towards "Jet Fighter Era".