WOW317 Gloster Meteor

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Description

The Gloster Meteor was the RAF’s first jet fighter and entered service during the closing stages of WW2.

Development of the jet engine had begun by Frank Whittle in the mid 1930’s but it took a collaboration between his company and Gloster to create the Meteor which came into service in 1944. Initially used for intercepting V1 flying bombs the Meteor’s were eventually deployed to Europe and saw active combat against the Luftwaffe although no recorded incidents are reported of a Meteor versus the Luftwaffe’s jet fighter the Me.262 in aerial combat.

Our variant of the Meteor is one flown by F/O Dean who after his cannons jammed on the 4th August 1944, became the first pilot to ‘tip’ a V1 flying bomb by nudging its wing upwards using his own aircraft’s wing, this caused the flying bomb to lose control and crash to the ground. In true RAF tradition Dean was reprimanded by his CO for damaging the wing of his own valuable jet aircraft during the action!

Post war the Meteor saw service with the Israeli, Egyptian, French, Danish and Argentine air forces, it also saw service in the Korean war with the Australian air force.

This 1/30 scale model and includes a free sample of RAF005 fighter pilot figure. We have received 8 of these models with

The rather excellent K&C figures shown are for scale purposes only and are available from good quality toy soldier dealers around the world. The mat, fuel barrels and RAF jeep are all available via the TG website www.jumpthegunn.co.uk and are of our own design and making.

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