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Full Description
Although most renowned for its series of seaplane racers for the Schneider Trophy Contests and for fighters like the Gamecock and the Gladiator, the Gloster Aircraft Company ran the gamut of design ingenuity, even though no type was ordered into quantity production. The company was chosen to produce Britain's first jet aircraft, the E28/39 and followed its success with the ubiquitous Meteor and the all weather, missile-carrying Javelin, of which some 4000 were built. This updated edition of of Gloster Aircraft since 1917 describes the company's formation and development in the face of a diminishing need for military aircraft and provides some fascinating insights into the manner to which it struggled to surmount the engineering and financial problems of the four decades of its existence before succumbing to the economic and political pressures of the post 1957 Defence White Paper era. Each chapter in this book covers a specific aeroplane, discussing its construction, development and operational history and comprehensive appendices give year by year production figures, UK and export sales, air racing successes and record achievements.
Contents
Preface; Author's Note; Origins and History of the Company; Mars I; Sparrowhawk; Mars VI Nighthawk; Mars X Nightjar; Grouse; Gannet; Grebe; Gloster II; Gamecock; Gloster III; Gorcock; Guan; Goral; Goring; Goldfinch; Gloster IV; Gambet; Gnatsnapper; Gauntlet; Gloster VI; AS.31; TC.33; TSR.38; Gladiator; F.5/34; F.9/37; E.28/39; Meteor; E.1/44; Javelin; Individual Aircraft Notes; Appendix A, Gloster Projects; Appendix B, Wartime Expansion; Appendix C, Aircraft Production Data; Appendix D, Aircraft supplied to the Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm and to Overseas Customers; Appendix E, Records Established and Races Won by Gloster Aeroplanes 1921-51; Appendix F, Test Pilots of Gloucestershire Aircraft Company 1919-1926 and Gloster Aircraft Company Limited 1926-1961; Appendix G, The Gladiators of Lesjaskog; Appendix H, Air Attacks on Hucclecote Factories; Appendix I, Glosters' Royal Visitors; Index.
