The aircraft has the name 'Rosemary' painted in red on the forward left fuselage near the cockpit. The aircraft arrived back in Canberra on 30 August 1983. The Australian War Memorial acquired the aircraft on 22 September 1960.Īfter a period of storage at Duntroon the aircraft was dispatched to RAAF Wagga for restoration by RAAF trainees in 1981. In 1958 the aircraft was transferred to 22 Sqn RAAF, Richmond, NSW, and then in 1960 to Base Squadron, Fairbairn, Australian Capital Territory (ACT). Originally printed by Gloster and the Royal Air Force in 1957, this Mark 7 handbook provides a fascinating glimpse inside the cockpit of the trainer version of. In October 1954 77 Sqn ceased to be operational and A77-368 was returned to Australia where it was subsequently transferred to 75 Sqn RAAF, Williamtown, New South Wales (NSW). A total of 104 pilots are known to have flown operationally in this aircraft of whom 39 were decorated at the end of their tours. The aircraft was also flown extensively by Pilot Officer R F Fox DFC USAM who completed 133 missions with 77 Sqn of which 50 were in A77-368. The citation specifically mentions a rocket strike on 15 June 1953 on Sunchon North Korea while flying A77-368. Sergeant R L Gilmore was Mentioned in Dispatches and flew 143 missions with 77 Squadron of which 69 were flown A77-368. It was also involved in six engagements with MiG-15 aircraft and on 3 November 1951, while piloted by Sergeant M E Colebrook DFM USAM, it was credited with damaging a MiG in combat. These operations included armed reconnaissance/interdictions, rocket strikes, napalm strikes, airborne alert patrols, fighter sweeps, combat air patrols, searches, as well as escorting United States bombers. During this time it flew a total of 485 operational missions and recorded an operational flying time of 484 hours. It was attached to 77 Sqn in Korea from July 1951 to August 1953. One further aircraft in the UK remains airworthy, as does another in Australia.This Gloster Meteor Mk 8 Jet Fighter arrived in Iwakuni, Japan, in March 1951 and in July 1951 was assigned to 77 Squadron (Sqn) RAAF in Korea. As of 2018, two Meteors, G-JSMA and G-JWMA, remain in active service with the Martin-Baker company as ejection seat testbeds. In the 1950s, the Meteor became increasingly obsolete as more nations introduced jet fighters, many of these newcomers having adopted a swept wing instead of the Meteor's conventional straight wing in RAF service, the Meteor was replaced by newer types such as the Hawker Hunter and Gloster Javelin. On 10 February 1954, a specially adapted Meteor F.8, the "Meteor Prone Pilot", which placed the pilot into a prone position to counteract inertial forces, took its first flight. On 20 September 1945, a heavily modified Meteor I, powered by two Rolls-Royce Trent turbine engines driving propellers, became the first turboprop aircraft to fly. Other performance-related records were broken in categories including flight time endurance, rate of climb, and speed. In 1946, this record was broken when a Meteor F.4 reached a speed of 616 miles per hour (991 km/h). On 7 November 1945, the first official airspeed record by a jet aircraft was set by a Meteor F.3 at 606 miles per hour (975 km/h). The Meteor was also used for research and development purposes and to break several aviation records. Specialised variants of the Meteor were developed for use in photographic aerial reconnaissance and as night fighters. Several other operators such as Argentina, Egypt and Israel flew Meteors in later regional conflicts. Meteors of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) fought in the Korean War. The Meteor saw limited action in the Second World War. Thousands of Meteors were built to fly with the RAF and other air forces and remained in use for several decades. Several major variants of the Meteor incorporated technological advances during the 1940s and 1950s. The Gloster Meteor design dates to 1940, and was planned from the beginning to be powered by the then revolutionary gas turbine engine developed by Frank. Gloster's 1946 civil Meteor F.4 demonstrator G-AIDC was the first civilian-registered jet aircraft in the world. The Meteor was not a sophisticated aircraft in its aerodynamics, but proved to be a successful combat fighter. The Meteor first flew in 1943 and commenced operations on 27 July 1944 with No. Development of the aircraft began in 1940, although work on the engines had been under way since 1936. The Meteor's development was heavily reliant on its ground-breaking turbojet engines, pioneered by Frank Whittle and his company, Power Jets Ltd. The Gloster Meteor was the first British jet fighter and the Allies' only jet aircraft to achieve combat operations during the Second World War.
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