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

Towards Gloster Meteor F.1

The Gloster Meteor ended up being 1st and just functional Allied jet to essentially indulge in World War II. It had been in November 1940 whenever British Air Ministry offered toward Gloster Aircraft company a specification for a new fighter operating on jet engine. Glostar right away began this task, in addition to the Air Ministry quickly put a purchase of prototypes to Gloster. Various kinds devices had been installed, and one of them, the Halford H.1 motor by De Havilland made one of many prototypes fly the first time in March 1943. The very last option, but was various.
The F.1, very first manufacturing variation, had been flown on 12 January 1944 with W.2B/23 engines manufactured by Rolls-Royce (1700lb). Aside from the engines, the F.1 differed hardly any from initial designs with four 20mm canons, tricycle landing gear and clear-view straight back canopy. Twenty F.1's was stated altogether, & most of those had been sent to the No. 616 Squadron. Their very first army success was indeed accomplished on 4 August 1944 whenever Flying Officer Dean shot down a German V1 rocket.

Since its very first kill, Meteors destroyed an overall total of thirteen V-1s plus it was in fact outstanding boost for morale not only inside armed forces also for the civilian population in England. Although changed by the improved F.3 and F.4 right after, the Gloster Meteor F.1 played an important roll, and German Messerschmitt Me personally 262, to start the entranceway towards "Jet Fighter Era".