{"id":20782,"date":"2026-08-09T21:11:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T19:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/?page_id=20782"},"modified":"2026-08-09T21:11:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T19:11:41","slug":"gloster-gladiator","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/cz\/aircraft\/gloster-gladiator\/","title":{"rendered":"Gloster Gladiator \u2014 History, Specs, Photos &#038; Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mfam\">\n<style>html{overflow-x:hidden}body.page-id-20782{overflow-x:hidden}body.page-id-20782 h1.entry-title.main_title{display:none}body.page-id-20782 #sidebar{display:none}body.page-id-20782 #left-area{width:100%!important;float:none;padding:0}body.page-id-20782 #main-content .container::before{display:none!important;background:none!important}body.page-id-20782 #main-content .container{padding-top:0}#mfam{width:100vw;margin-left:calc(50% - 50vw);overflow:hidden;font-family:'Gilroy 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.hero{min-height:66vh}#mfam .sec2h,#mfam .sec>.wrap>h2{font-size:26px}#mfam .claim{font-size:18px}#mfam .gd-body{padding-left:0}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"hero\"><img data-opt-id=1811130494  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1536\/h:847\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/gloster-gladiator-mk-i-l8032-raf-fighter.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" class=\"hero-img\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201536%20847%22%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%22847%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%22847%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"Gloster Gladiator Mk I biplane fighter of the Royal Air Force in flight\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"hero-shade\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"hero-inner\">\n<div class=\"crumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/\">Aircraft Museum<\/a> &#8250; Gloster Gladiator<\/div>\n<h1>Gloster Gladiator<\/h1>\n<p class=\"claim\">The RAF&#8217;s last biplane fighter &#8212; an open-framed throwback that went to war in 1940 and, over Malta and Norway, became a legend.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stripe\">\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>414 km\/h<\/b><span>Top speed (Mk II)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>~747<\/b><span>Gladiators built (figures vary)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>4<\/b><span>&times; .303 machine guns<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>1934<\/b><span>Prototype first flight<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sec\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"chips\"><span class=\"chip\"><b>Role<\/b> Single-seat biplane fighter<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Era<\/b> 1937&#8211;1945<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Engine<\/b> Bristol Mercury radial<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Origin<\/b> United Kingdom<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Status<\/b> Retired; one airworthy<\/span><span class=\"chip fly\"><a href=\"#faq\">Can you fly a Gladiator today?<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sec\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kicker\">At a Glance<\/p>\n<h2>Gloster Gladiator: key facts<\/h2>\n<div class=\"combat\" style=\"grid-template-columns:repeat(5,1fr)\">\n<div class=\"cstat\" style=\"background:#fff\"><span style=\"font-family:'Gilroy semiBold';font-size:13px;letter-spacing:1px;text-transform:uppercase;color:#5C91FF;display:block;margin-bottom:6px\">First flight<\/span><span style=\"font-size:15.5px;color:#0d1117;display:block;margin-top:0\">12 September 1934 (SS.37)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"cstat\" style=\"background:#fff\"><span style=\"font-family:'Gilroy semiBold';font-size:13px;letter-spacing:1px;text-transform:uppercase;color:#5C91FF;display:block;margin-bottom:6px\">RAF service<\/span><span style=\"font-size:15.5px;color:#0d1117;display:block;margin-top:0\">From February 1937<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"cstat\" style=\"background:#fff\"><span style=\"font-family:'Gilroy semiBold';font-size:13px;letter-spacing:1px;text-transform:uppercase;color:#5C91FF;display:block;margin-bottom:6px\">Manufacturer<\/span><span style=\"font-size:15.5px;color:#0d1117;display:block;margin-top:0\">Gloster Aircraft Company<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"cstat\" style=\"background:#fff\"><span style=\"font-family:'Gilroy semiBold';font-size:13px;letter-spacing:1px;text-transform:uppercase;color:#5C91FF;display:block;margin-bottom:6px\">Chief designer<\/span><span style=\"font-size:15.5px;color:#0d1117;display:block;margin-top:0\">Henry Folland<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"cstat\" style=\"background:#fff\"><span style=\"font-family:'Gilroy semiBold';font-size:13px;letter-spacing:1px;text-transform:uppercase;color:#5C91FF;display:block;margin-bottom:6px\">Crew<\/span><span style=\"font-size:15.5px;color:#0d1117;display:block;margin-top:0\">1 (pilot)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"cstat\" style=\"background:#fff\"><span style=\"font-family:'Gilroy semiBold';font-size:13px;letter-spacing:1px;text-transform:uppercase;color:#5C91FF;display:block;margin-bottom:6px\">Powerplant<\/span><span style=\"font-size:15.5px;color:#0d1117;display:block;margin-top:0\">Bristol Mercury radial<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"cstat\" style=\"background:#fff\"><span style=\"font-family:'Gilroy semiBold';font-size:13px;letter-spacing:1px;text-transform:uppercase;color:#5C91FF;display:block;margin-bottom:6px\">Top speed<\/span><span style=\"font-size:15.5px;color:#0d1117;display:block;margin-top:0\">~257 mph \/ 414 km\/h<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"cstat\" style=\"background:#fff\"><span style=\"font-family:'Gilroy semiBold';font-size:13px;letter-spacing:1px;text-transform:uppercase;color:#5C91FF;display:block;margin-bottom:6px\">Armament<\/span><span style=\"font-size:15.5px;color:#0d1117;display:block;margin-top:0\">4 &times; .303 in machine guns<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"cstat\" style=\"background:#fff\"><span style=\"font-family:'Gilroy semiBold';font-size:13px;letter-spacing:1px;text-transform:uppercase;color:#5C91FF;display:block;margin-bottom:6px\">Number built<\/span><span style=\"font-size:15.5px;color:#0d1117;display:block;margin-top:0\">~747 (figures vary)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"cstat\" style=\"background:#fff\"><span style=\"font-family:'Gilroy semiBold';font-size:13px;letter-spacing:1px;text-transform:uppercase;color:#5C91FF;display:block;margin-bottom:6px\">Primary user<\/span><span style=\"font-size:15.5px;color:#0d1117;display:block;margin-top:0\">Royal Air Force<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sec\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kicker\">The Story<\/p>\n<h2>The Gloster Gladiator: the RAF&#8217;s last biplane fighter<\/h2>\n<div class=\"story\">\n<p>In the mid-1930s the Royal Air Force was still, in the main, a force of open-cockpit biplanes: fabric-covered, wire-braced fighters that traced their bloodline straight back to the First World War. The Gloster Gladiator was the last and best of that line &#8212; and by the time it went to war it was already a survivor from another age, thrown into a sky that belonged to the monoplane.<\/p>\n<p>The Gladiator grew out of Gloster&#8217;s earlier Gauntlet, itself a fast open-cockpit biplane. Designer Henry Folland refined the concept into the private-venture SS.37, which first flew on 12 September 1934. It offered the RAF a package no earlier British biplane had managed all at once: an enclosed, sliding cockpit canopy, a powerful Bristol Mercury radial engine, and &#8212; crucially &#8212; four machine guns instead of the traditional two.<\/p>\n<p>That armament mattered. For nearly two decades RAF fighters had gone into action with a pair of rifle-calibre guns, a standard set in 1918. The Gladiator doubled it to four .303-inch guns, two in the fuselage and one under each lower wing. Against fabric-covered opponents it was a genuine advance, and it made the Gladiator one of the hardest-hitting biplane fighters ever built.<\/p>\n<p>The RAF ordered it, and the first Gladiators reached No. 72 Squadron early in 1937. For a brief moment it was a thoroughly modern fighter. But aviation was moving at a bewildering pace. The same Air Ministry that bought the Gladiator was already ordering the monoplane Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire, and by 1937 the Messerschmitt Bf 109 was in service in Germany. The biplane fighter&#8217;s day was ending even as the Gladiator entered its prime.<\/p>\n<p>It hardly mattered to the men who flew it. When the war spread in 1940, the Gladiator was still on the strength of squadrons far from Britain &#8212; and it fought. Over Norway, RAF Gladiators of No. 263 Squadron operated from the frozen surface of Lake Lesjaskog, taking off between bomb craters until the ice and the Luftwaffe wore them down. It was one of the most desperate improvised air campaigns of the war.<\/p>\n<p>Then came Malta. In June 1940 a handful of naval Sea Gladiators, assembled from packing crates on the island, flew in the first defence of Malta against the Italian air force. The story of &#8220;Faith, Hope and Charity&#8221; &#8212; three lone biplanes holding off an empire &#8212; became one of the most famous legends of the war. The reality, as ever, was more complicated, but the courage was entirely real.<\/p>\n<p>The Gladiator fought almost everywhere Britain and its friends did in 1940 and 1941: over France and Belgium, in the mountains of Greece against the Italian invasion, across the Western Desert, and through the long East African campaign that drove Italy out of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Wherever modern fighters were scarce, the old biplane held the line.<\/p>\n<p>It was also one of the most widely exported fighters of its generation. Gladiators served with the air forces of Sweden, Finland, Norway, Belgium, Greece, China, Iraq, Portugal, Latvia, Lithuania, Ireland, Egypt and South Africa. In the snows of the Winter War, Finnish Gladiators and Swedish volunteers fought the Soviet Air Force; over southern China they met the Japanese; over the desert they duelled the Italian Fiat CR.42, the last biplane fighter on the other side.<\/p>\n<p>By 1941 the Hurricane and Spitfire had taken over, and the Gladiator was withdrawn from front-line fighting to meteorological, communications and second-line duties. But it had done something remarkable: it had carried the RAF, and half a dozen other air forces, across the gulf between the biplane era and the monoplane war &#8212; and in Norway and over Malta it had written itself into legend. That is why, at Old Warden in England, one Gladiator still flies today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pull\">A modern fighter in 1934 and an antique by 1940, the Gladiator went to war anyway &#8212; and over Norway and Malta the old biplane earned a fame its faster successors never quite matched.<span>The Gloster Gladiator paradox<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"gd\">\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"num\">01<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The Gloster Gladiator&#8217;s origins: how Gloster&#8217;s biplanes reached their peak<\/span><span class=\"pm\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gd-body\">\n<p>The Gladiator was the end of a family line. Gloster had built a series of successful open-cockpit biplane fighters through the 1920s and early 1930s, culminating in the Gauntlet &#8212; a fast, agile fighter that equipped much of the RAF&#8217;s fighter force in the mid-1930s. The Gladiator was, in essence, a Gauntlet perfected.<\/p>\n<p>Henry Folland&#8217;s private-venture SS.37 added the refinements that defined the type: a sliding cockpit canopy, cantilever main undercarriage legs with spats, and provision for four guns rather than two. First flown on 12 September 1934, it was evaluated by the RAF, ordered into production, and named Gladiator in service.<\/p>\n<p>It is one of aviation&#8217;s recurring ironies that a design should reach its finest expression just as its whole category was rendered obsolete. The Gladiator was the best biplane fighter the RAF ever had &#8212; and the last, because the monoplane had already won the argument.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"num\">02<\/span><span class=\"gt\">Why the Gloster Gladiator was obsolescent almost as soon as it entered service<\/span><span class=\"pm\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gd-body\">\n<p>The Gladiator entered RAF service in 1937 with a top speed of around 250 mph. That was respectable for a biplane, but the new monoplane fighters were already far quicker: the Hurricane and Spitfire exceeded 300 mph and the Messerschmitt Bf 109 was in the same class. A biplane&#8217;s bracing wires and second wing created drag that no amount of engine power could overcome.<\/p>\n<p>What the Gladiator retained was agility. Its light wing loading made it superbly manoeuvrable, and in a close, turning dogfight against another biplane &#8212; the Italian Fiat CR.42, for instance &#8212; it was formidable. Against fast monoplanes that could dive, shoot and climb away, however, that turning ability counted for far less.<\/p>\n<p>So the Gladiator went to war as a fighter that could still win against its own generation but was dangerously exposed against the next one. Where it met other biplanes and slower types, as in East Africa and over Malta&#8217;s early raids, it did well. Where it met modern monoplanes in numbers, it suffered.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sec\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kicker\">Design &amp; Engineering<\/p>\n<h2>How the Gloster Gladiator was built to fight<\/h2>\n<p class=\"lead\" style=\"margin-bottom:30px\">The Gladiator married a traditional fabric-and-metal biplane airframe to three genuinely modern touches: an enclosed cockpit, a reliable radial engine, and four guns. It was the most advanced biplane fighter the RAF ever fielded.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cards\">\n<div class=\"card\">\n<div class=\"n\">01<\/div>\n<h3>An enclosed cockpit and four guns<\/h3>\n<p>The Gladiator was the first RAF fighter with a fully enclosed, sliding cockpit canopy &#8212; a real advance for pilots used to open cockpits and freezing slipstream. It also carried four .303-inch machine guns instead of the traditional two, doubling the firepower of earlier biplane fighters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"card\">\n<div class=\"n\">02<\/div>\n<h3>The Bristol Mercury radial<\/h3>\n<p>Power came from a single Bristol Mercury air-cooled radial of roughly 830 horsepower, driving a two- or three-blade propeller. The same reliable Mercury family powered the Bristol Blenheim; it gave the Gladiator a good rate of climb and dependable service in climates from the Arctic to the desert.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"card\">\n<div class=\"n\">03<\/div>\n<h3>The last of the biplane fighters<\/h3>\n<p>Fabric-covered over a metal frame, wire-braced and fixed-undercarriage, the Gladiator was traditional where it mattered least and modern where it mattered most. Light and strong, it was superbly agile &#8212; the qualities that let it survive in skies otherwise dominated by monoplanes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure style=\"margin:36px 0 0\"><img data-opt-id=109079312  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1125\/h:1080\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/bristol-mercury-radial-engine-raf-museum.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201536%201474%22%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221474%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221474%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"Bristol Mercury air-cooled radial engine that powered the Gloster Gladiator\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;border:1px solid #e2e7ee\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13.5px;color:#5a6472;padding-top:9px\">The Bristol Mercury air-cooled radial engine that powered the Gladiator, preserved at the RAF Museum. Photo Nimbus227, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gd\">\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"num\">03<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The Gloster Sea Gladiator: the Gladiator goes to sea<\/span><span class=\"pm\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gd-body\">\n<p>The Fleet Air Arm needed a stopgap fighter for its aircraft carriers, and the Gladiator was adapted into the Sea Gladiator. The naval version added an arrestor hook for deck landings, catapult spools, and a stowage for an inflatable dinghy in a fairing beneath the fuselage &#8212; the small &#8220;belly&#8221; that distinguishes many Sea Gladiator photographs.<\/p>\n<p>Sea Gladiators served aboard carriers such as HMS Glorious, Eagle and Courageous, and it was a batch of crated Sea Gladiators on Malta that flew in the island&#8217;s first defence in 1940. The type was always an interim design &#8212; the Fleet Air Arm knew monoplanes were coming &#8212; but it gave the Royal Navy a modern-enough fighter at a moment when it had almost nothing else.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sec\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kicker\">Full Specifications<\/p>\n<h2>Gloster Gladiator Mk II &#8212; specifications<\/h2>\n<p class=\"lead\" style=\"margin-bottom:26px\">Figures are for the Gladiator Mk II with the Bristol Mercury IX; sources vary by a few mph and a few hundred feet, and values are given as approximate.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twocol\">\n<table class=\"spec\">\n<caption>General characteristics<\/caption>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Crew<\/th>\n<td>1 (pilot)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Length<\/th>\n<td>8.36 m (27 ft 5 in)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Wingspan<\/th>\n<td>9.83 m (32 ft 3 in)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Height<\/th>\n<td>3.53 m (11 ft 7 in)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Wing area<\/th>\n<td>~30.0 m&#178; (323 sq ft)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Empty weight<\/th>\n<td>~1,460 kg (3,220 lb)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Loaded weight<\/th>\n<td>~2,085 kg (4,595 lb)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Powerplant<\/th>\n<td>1 &times; Bristol Mercury IX radial<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Power<\/th>\n<td>~830 hp (619 kW)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"spec\">\n<caption>Performance, armament &amp; cost<\/caption>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Maximum speed<\/th>\n<td>~257 mph \/ 414 km\/h at ~14,500 ft<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Cruising speed<\/th>\n<td>~210 mph \/ 338 km\/h<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Range<\/th>\n<td>~440 mi \/ 708 km<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Service ceiling<\/th>\n<td>~32,800 ft \/ 10,000 m<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Rate of climb<\/th>\n<td>~2,300 ft\/min (11.7 m\/s)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Armament<\/th>\n<td>4 &times; .303 in (7.7 mm) machine guns<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Naval version<\/th>\n<td>Sea Gladiator (hook, catapult, dinghy)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Unit cost<\/th>\n<td>Not reliably recorded (wartime figures scarce)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Cost per flight hour<\/th>\n<td>Not reliably recorded &#8212; a modern airworthy Gladiator is estimated to cost several thousand pounds per hour to operate (warbird estimate)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gd\">\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"num\">04<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The Gloster Gladiator&#8217;s variants: Mk I, Mk II and Sea Gladiator<\/span><span class=\"pm\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gd-body\">\n<p>The main marks were the Mk I, with a two-blade fixed-pitch propeller and Mercury IX engine, and the improved Mk II, which introduced a three-blade propeller, electric starter and other detail changes. The Sea Gladiator was the navalised version for the Fleet Air Arm, with an arrestor hook, catapult points and a dinghy fairing.<\/p>\n<p>Exports carried their own designations &#8212; Sweden, for example, flew its Gladiators as the J 8. Total production is usually given as around 747 aircraft, including roughly 480 Mk I, some 270 Mk II, and a batch of Sea Gladiators, though the exact split varies between sources depending on how exports and conversions are counted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"num\">05<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The Gloster Gladiator&#8217;s operating costs: what a biplane fighter cost<\/span><span class=\"pm\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gd-body\">\n<p>Reliable unit and running costs for the Gladiator in the 1930s and 1940s are not well recorded in the public sources, and any single figure should be treated with caution. It was a relatively cheap fighter by the standards of the day &#8212; a fabric-and-metal biplane with a single radial engine &#8212; far less costly than the all-metal monoplanes that replaced it.<\/p>\n<p>The one meaningful modern benchmark is what it costs to keep the last airworthy example flying. Operating a vintage warbird of this type &#8212; with a hand-built radial engine, fabric covering and irreplaceable parts &#8212; is commonly estimated at several thousand pounds per flying hour once maintenance, insurance and engineering are included. That figure is an estimate for a preserved aircraft, not a wartime cost.<\/p>\n<p>For a visitor the practical point is simple: you cannot buy a seat in a Gladiator at any price, because it is a single-seat fighter and the survivors are irreplaceable. What you can do is watch one fly &#8212; and, if you want to actually fly in a piece of military-aviation history, book a flight in a genuine military jet instead.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sec\" style=\"background:#f6f8fb\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kicker\">Reference Data<\/p>\n<h2>Gloster Gladiator: structure, engine and production<\/h2>\n<p class=\"lead\" style=\"margin-bottom:22px\">Background reference data spanning the Gladiator&#8217;s design, service and the world&#8217;s surviving airframes.<\/p>\n<table class=\"spec\">\n<caption>Detailed technical &amp; production data<\/caption>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Manufacturer<\/th>\n<td>Gloster Aircraft Company<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Country of origin<\/th>\n<td>United Kingdom<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Chief designer<\/th>\n<td>Henry Folland<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Prototype (SS.37) first flight<\/th>\n<td>12 September 1934<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>RAF service entry<\/th>\n<td>February 1937 (No. 72 Squadron)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Primary operator<\/th>\n<td>Royal Air Force (Fighter Command and overseas)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Construction<\/th>\n<td>Metal frame, fabric-covered biplane<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Cockpit<\/th>\n<td>Enclosed sliding canopy (an RAF first)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Undercarriage<\/th>\n<td>Fixed, spatted mainwheels; tailwheel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Propeller<\/th>\n<td>2-blade (Mk I) or 3-blade (Mk II)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Engine family<\/th>\n<td>Bristol Mercury air-cooled radial<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Number built<\/th>\n<td>~747 (figures vary)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Export operators<\/th>\n<td>13+ countries<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Naval variant<\/th>\n<td>Gloster Sea Gladiator<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Main successors<\/th>\n<td>Hawker Hurricane, Supermarine Spitfire<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Airworthy survivors<\/th>\n<td>One (Shuttleworth Collection, G-AMRK)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sec\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kicker\">Powerplant &amp; Heritage<\/p>\n<h2>Engines, names and the Gladiator&#8217;s place in history<\/h2>\n<div class=\"gd\">\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"num\">06<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The Bristol Mercury: the engine behind the Gloster Gladiator<\/span><span class=\"pm\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gd-body\">\n<p>The Gladiator was built around the Bristol Mercury, a nine-cylinder air-cooled radial that was one of the most important British aero engines of the 1930s. In the Gladiator it produced roughly 830 horsepower, giving the light biplane a healthy rate of climb and a top speed a little over 250 mph.<\/p>\n<p>The Mercury was famously reliable and was produced in huge numbers, which made it ideal for an aircraft expected to operate far from major workshops &#8212; from the frozen lakes of Norway to the deserts of North and East Africa. The same engine family powered the Bristol Blenheim bomber, simplifying supply for the RAF.<\/p>\n<p>Air-cooled and rugged, the Mercury shrugged off conditions that would have crippled a liquid-cooled engine with a vulnerable radiator. It was a major reason the Gladiator kept flying in places and climates where more sophisticated fighters could not easily be maintained.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"num\">07<\/span><span class=\"gt\">Where the Gloster Gladiator&#8217;s name and lineage come from<\/span><span class=\"pm\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gd-body\">\n<p>Like many RAF fighters of its era, the Gladiator took a suitably martial name &#8212; evoking the arena combat of the ancient world, appropriate for a single-seat fighter designed for the close, wheeling dogfights of the biplane age.<\/p>\n<p>Its lineage ran directly back through the Gloster Gauntlet and the company&#8217;s earlier biplane fighters, the last flowering of a design philosophy that stretched to the First World War. In that sense the Gladiator was both an ending and a bridge: the final RAF biplane fighter, flying alongside the first monoplanes that would define the coming war.<\/p>\n<p>That position &#8212; the last of the old, fighting beside the first of the new &#8212; gives the Gladiator a special place in aviation history. It is remembered not for being the best fighter of the war, which it plainly was not, but for being the brave, obsolescent biplane that fought on regardless.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sec\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kicker\">Variants<\/p>\n<h2>Every major Gloster Gladiator version<\/h2>\n<p class=\"lead\" style=\"margin-bottom:22px\">From the private-venture prototype to the navalised Sea Gladiator and the many export models, the Gladiator family was small but widely spread.<\/p>\n<table class=\"spec\">\n<caption>Gloster Gladiator variants at a glance<\/caption>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"width:20%\">Variant<\/th>\n<th style=\"width:24%\">Engine<\/th>\n<th style=\"width:18%\">Role<\/th>\n<th style=\"width:38%\">Notes<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>SS.37<\/td>\n<td>Bristol Mercury<\/td>\n<td>Prototype<\/td>\n<td>Private-venture prototype, first flown 12 September 1934<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Gladiator Mk I<\/td>\n<td>Bristol Mercury IX<\/td>\n<td>Fighter<\/td>\n<td>First production version; two-blade propeller; RAF service from 1937<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Gladiator Mk II<\/td>\n<td>Bristol Mercury VIIIA\/IX<\/td>\n<td>Fighter<\/td>\n<td>Three-blade propeller, electric starter and detail improvements<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sea Gladiator<\/td>\n<td>Bristol Mercury VIIIA<\/td>\n<td>Naval fighter<\/td>\n<td>Fleet Air Arm version with arrestor hook, catapult points and dinghy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sea Gladiator (Interim)<\/td>\n<td>Bristol Mercury<\/td>\n<td>Naval fighter<\/td>\n<td>Early navalised conversions without full equipment<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>J 8 \/ J 8A<\/td>\n<td>Bristol Mercury<\/td>\n<td>Fighter<\/td>\n<td>Swedish designation for its Gladiators; J 8A had detail changes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Export Gladiators<\/td>\n<td>Bristol Mercury<\/td>\n<td>Fighter<\/td>\n<td>Supplied to Belgium, China, Egypt, Finland, Greece, Iraq, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Portugal and South Africa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sec\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kicker\">Notable Operations<\/p>\n<h2>The Gloster Gladiator in action<\/h2>\n<div class=\"cards\" style=\"grid-template-columns:repeat(4,1fr)\">\n<div class=\"card\">\n<div class=\"n\">01<\/div>\n<h3 style=\"font-size:17px;margin:10px 0 8px\">Norway, April&#8211;June 1940<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size:14.5px\">No. 263 Squadron&#8217;s Gladiators fought over Norway, at one point flying from the frozen surface of Lake Lesjaskog. The improvised base was bombed and the ice cracked, but the pilots kept flying until losses forced a withdrawal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"card\">\n<div class=\"n\">02<\/div>\n<h3 style=\"font-size:17px;margin:10px 0 8px\">The defence of Malta, 1940<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size:14.5px\">From June 1940, a few crated Sea Gladiators of the Hal Far Fighter Flight flew Malta&#8217;s first air defence against the Italian air force &#8212; the origin of the celebrated &#8220;Faith, Hope and Charity&#8221; legend.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"card\">\n<div class=\"n\">03<\/div>\n<h3 style=\"font-size:17px;margin:10px 0 8px\">Greece, 1940&#8211;41<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size:14.5px\">RAF and Greek Gladiators fought the Italian invasion of Greece over rugged mountain terrain, one of the type&#8217;s most intense and successful campaigns against Italian biplanes and monoplanes alike.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"card\">\n<div class=\"n\">04<\/div>\n<h3 style=\"font-size:17px;margin:10px 0 8px\">East Africa, 1940&#8211;41<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size:14.5px\">Across Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somaliland, Gladiators supported the campaign that destroyed Italian East Africa, often as the most modern fighter available.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"card\">\n<div class=\"n\">05<\/div>\n<h3 style=\"font-size:17px;margin:10px 0 8px\">The Western Desert, 1940&#8211;41<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size:14.5px\">Over Egypt and Libya the Gladiator duelled the Italian Fiat CR.42 &#8212; biplane against biplane &#8212; before Hurricanes took over the desert air war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"card\">\n<div class=\"n\">06<\/div>\n<h3 style=\"font-size:17px;margin:10px 0 8px\">The Winter War, 1939&#8211;40<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size:14.5px\">Finnish Gladiators and Swedish volunteers of Flight Regiment F 19 fought the Soviet Air Force over the frozen north, scoring victories in bitter cold.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"card\">\n<div class=\"n\">07<\/div>\n<h3 style=\"font-size:17px;margin:10px 0 8px\">France and Belgium, 1940<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size:14.5px\">Belgian Gladiators met the Luftwaffe in May 1940 and were quickly overwhelmed, while RAF Gladiators covered the retreat and the Channel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"card\">\n<div class=\"n\">08<\/div>\n<h3 style=\"font-size:17px;margin:10px 0 8px\">China, from 1938<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size:14.5px\">Chinese Gladiators fought Japanese aircraft over southern China, including in the defence of Canton &#8212; a little-known chapter of the type&#8217;s global service.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sec\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kicker\">In Context<\/p>\n<h2>The Gloster Gladiator among its contemporaries<\/h2>\n<p class=\"lead\" style=\"margin-bottom:22px\">In 1937 the Gladiator was a good fighter; by 1940 it was outclassed by the monoplanes on both sides. Set beside its rivals, the gap is clear &#8212; except against the one aircraft in its own class, the Fiat CR.42.<\/p>\n<table class=\"spec\">\n<caption>Gladiator and its contemporaries compared<\/caption>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"width:28%\">Aircraft<\/th>\n<th style=\"width:16%\">Configuration<\/th>\n<th style=\"width:16%\">Top speed<\/th>\n<th style=\"width:18%\">Armament<\/th>\n<th style=\"width:22%\">First flight<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Gloster Gladiator<\/td>\n<td>Biplane<\/td>\n<td>~257 mph<\/td>\n<td>4 &times; .303 in<\/td>\n<td>1934<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Fiat CR.42 Falco<\/td>\n<td>Biplane<\/td>\n<td>~274 mph<\/td>\n<td>2 &times; 12.7 mm<\/td>\n<td>1938<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Hawker Hurricane Mk I<\/td>\n<td>Monoplane<\/td>\n<td>~324 mph<\/td>\n<td>8 &times; .303 in<\/td>\n<td>1935<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Supermarine Spitfire Mk I<\/td>\n<td>Monoplane<\/td>\n<td>~362 mph<\/td>\n<td>8 &times; .303 in<\/td>\n<td>1936<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Messerschmitt Bf 109E<\/td>\n<td>Monoplane<\/td>\n<td>~354 mph<\/td>\n<td>Cannon + MG<\/td>\n<td>1935<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Polikarpov I-153<\/td>\n<td>Biplane<\/td>\n<td>~275 mph<\/td>\n<td>4 &times; 7.62 mm<\/td>\n<td>1938<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p class=\"fnote\">Figures are approximate and vary by sub-variant and source; they are intended for broad comparison only.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sec\" style=\"background:#f6f8fb\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kicker\">Timeline<\/p>\n<h2>The Gloster Gladiator: a service record<\/h2>\n<div class=\"tl\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1934<\/div>\n<div class=\"ev\">Gloster&#8217;s private-venture SS.37 prototype first flies on 12 September<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1935<\/div>\n<div class=\"ev\">The Air Ministry orders the design into production as the Gladiator<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1937<\/div>\n<div class=\"ev\">Gladiator Mk I enters RAF service with No. 72 Squadron<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1938<\/div>\n<div class=\"ev\">Sea Gladiator developed for the Fleet Air Arm; exports begin in earnest<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1939<\/div>\n<div class=\"ev\">Widely exported; Gladiators in service from Scandinavia to China as war breaks out<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1939&#8211;40<\/div>\n<div class=\"ev\">Finnish and Swedish Gladiators fight the Soviet Air Force in the Winter War<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1940<\/div>\n<div class=\"ev\">Norway campaign; first defence of Malta; fighting over France, Belgium and Greece<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1940&#8211;41<\/div>\n<div class=\"ev\">East African campaign and Western Desert operations against Italian forces<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1941<\/div>\n<div class=\"ev\">Largely replaced in front-line service by the Hurricane and Spitfire<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1941&#8211;45<\/div>\n<div class=\"ev\">Second-line use for meteorological, communications and training flights<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1945<\/div>\n<div class=\"ev\">Final wartime service; the type retired from the RAF soon after<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"yr\">Today<\/div>\n<div class=\"ev\">One airworthy Gladiator (G-AMRK) flies with the Shuttleworth Collection<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sec\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kicker\">Stories &amp; Eyewitnesses<\/p>\n<h2>The Gloster Gladiator in sixteen stories<\/h2>\n<div class=\"carou\">\n<div class=\"track\" id=\"gxtrack\">\n<div class=\"scard\">\n<div class=\"st\">The last biplane<\/div>\n<h3>The RAF&#8217;s final biplane fighter<\/h3>\n<p>The Gladiator closed a chapter that had opened in the First World War.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read more<\/summary>\n<p style=\"margin-top:10px\">When the Gladiator entered service in 1937 it was the last in an unbroken line of RAF biplane fighters stretching back two decades. Within a year the monoplane Hurricane and Spitfire were arriving, and the biplane fighter&#8217;s reign was over.<\/p>\n<p>That the Gladiator went to war at all in 1940 says as much about how fast aviation was moving as about the aircraft itself &#8212; a good design overtaken by revolution.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"scard\">\n<div class=\"st\">Norway<\/div>\n<h3>Fighting from a frozen lake<\/h3>\n<p>No. 263 Squadron flew from the ice of Lake Lesjaskog in 1940.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read more<\/summary>\n<p style=\"margin-top:10px\">In April 1940 Gladiators of No. 263 Squadron were shipped to Norway and operated from the frozen surface of Lake Lesjaskog. Ground crews worked in appalling cold to keep the aircraft flying between German air raids.<\/p>\n<p>The improvised base was bombed heavily and the ice began to break up; within days most of the Gladiators were destroyed or unserviceable. A second deployment fought on until the Norwegian campaign collapsed.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"scard\">\n<div class=\"st\">Malta<\/div>\n<h3>The Sea Gladiators of Malta<\/h3>\n<p>Crated naval fighters became the island&#8217;s first defenders.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read more<\/summary>\n<p style=\"margin-top:10px\">In June 1940 a batch of Sea Gladiators, stored in crates at Kalafrana as spares for Fleet Air Arm carriers, was assembled to give Malta a fighter defence. Flown by a scratch unit, they met Italian raids over the island.<\/p>\n<p>Six aircraft were eventually made serviceable, though only a handful could fly at any one time. Their stand became the seed of one of the war&#8217;s most enduring legends.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"scard\">\n<div class=\"st\">Faith Hope Charity<\/div>\n<h3>The truth behind the legend<\/h3>\n<p>The famous three-fighter story is a celebrated legend, not literal history.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read more<\/summary>\n<p style=\"margin-top:10px\">Popular history says three Gladiators &#8212; &#8220;Faith&#8221;, &#8220;Hope&#8221; and &#8220;Charity&#8221; &#8212; alone defended Malta against the Italian air force. It is a stirring tale, and it has become part of Malta&#8217;s national story.<\/p>\n<p>The reality is more nuanced. Six Sea Gladiators were assembled from crates and three could fly at once; the names were applied later, reportedly by a Maltese newspaper, and Hurricanes began reinforcing the island by late June 1940. The courage was real; the neat &#8220;just three&#8221; version is romanticised.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"scard\">\n<div class=\"st\">Greece<\/div>\n<h3>Victory over the Italians<\/h3>\n<p>Over Greece the Gladiator fought one of its best campaigns.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read more<\/summary>\n<p style=\"margin-top:10px\">When Italy invaded Greece in October 1940, RAF and Greek Gladiators were among the defenders. Over rugged mountains they fought Italian bombers and fighters, including the Fiat CR.42, often with success.<\/p>\n<p>Greek Gladiator pilots became national heroes. The campaign showed the type at its best &#8212; agile, well-armed, and fighting an enemy still partly equipped with biplanes of its own.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"scard\">\n<div class=\"st\">The desert<\/div>\n<h3>Biplane against biplane<\/h3>\n<p>In the Western Desert the Gladiator met its Italian equivalent.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read more<\/summary>\n<p style=\"margin-top:10px\">Over Egypt and Libya in 1940 the Gladiator faced the Fiat CR.42 Falco &#8212; the last biplane fighters of two air forces, wheeling and turning above the desert in combats that could have belonged to an earlier war.<\/p>\n<p>It was one of the last times biplane fighters fought each other in large numbers. Soon Hurricanes arrived and the desert air war moved decisively into the monoplane age.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"scard\">\n<div class=\"st\">Winter War<\/div>\n<h3>Gladiators over the snow<\/h3>\n<p>Finnish and Swedish pilots fought the Soviets in 1939&#8211;40.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read more<\/summary>\n<p style=\"margin-top:10px\">During the Winter War, Finland flew Gladiators against the Soviet Air Force, and a Swedish volunteer unit, Flight Regiment F 19, brought its own Gladiators to fight in Finnish Lapland.<\/p>\n<p>Operating from frozen lakes and rough strips in extreme cold, the Gladiators scored victories against Soviet aircraft &#8212; a striking episode of the type&#8217;s far-flung career.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"scard\">\n<div class=\"st\">China<\/div>\n<h3>Against Japan over Canton<\/h3>\n<p>Chinese Gladiators fought the Japanese from 1938.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read more<\/summary>\n<p style=\"margin-top:10px\">China bought Gladiators and used them against Japanese aircraft over southern China, including in the defence of Canton in 1938. Chinese pilots claimed victories in fierce, low-level fighting.<\/p>\n<p>It is one of the least-known parts of the Gladiator&#8217;s story, but it underlines how widely the little British biplane was exported and how many fronts it fought on.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"scard\">\n<div class=\"st\">Belgium<\/div>\n<h3>Overwhelmed in May 1940<\/h3>\n<p>Belgian Gladiators met the Luftwaffe and were swiftly lost.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read more<\/summary>\n<p style=\"margin-top:10px\">The Belgian air arm operated Gladiators when Germany attacked in the west in May 1940. Outnumbered and outclassed by modern German fighters, most were destroyed within the first days of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Their brief, doomed stand was part of the wider collapse of the Low Countries, but Belgian pilots fought their obsolescent fighters bravely against impossible odds.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"scard\">\n<div class=\"st\">Sweden<\/div>\n<h3>The J 8<\/h3>\n<p>Sweden flew the Gladiator as the J 8 and sent volunteers to Finland.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read more<\/summary>\n<p style=\"margin-top:10px\">Sweden operated the Gladiator under the designation J 8 and J 8A. When the Soviet Union attacked Finland, Swedish volunteers formed Flight Regiment F 19 and took their Gladiators north to fight.<\/p>\n<p>A preserved Swedish Gladiator survives today, a reminder of the type&#8217;s Scandinavian service and of the volunteers who flew it in someone else&#8217;s war.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"scard\">\n<div class=\"st\">The enclosed cockpit<\/div>\n<h3>A small revolution for pilots<\/h3>\n<p>The Gladiator was the first RAF fighter with a canopy.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read more<\/summary>\n<p style=\"margin-top:10px\">For all its traditional biplane layout, the Gladiator introduced one genuinely modern comfort: an enclosed, sliding cockpit canopy. RAF pilots used to open cockpits and freezing slipstream found it a real improvement.<\/p>\n<p>It was a sign of things to come. The enclosed cockpit, four guns and radial engine were all pointers toward the monoplane fighters that would soon make the Gladiator obsolete.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"scard\">\n<div class=\"st\">Four guns<\/div>\n<h3>Double the firepower<\/h3>\n<p>The Gladiator carried four guns where earlier biplanes had two.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read more<\/summary>\n<p style=\"margin-top:10px\">For nearly twenty years RAF fighters had gone to war with two machine guns, a standard fixed in 1918. The Gladiator doubled it to four .303-inch guns &#8212; two in the fuselage and one beneath each lower wing.<\/p>\n<p>Against the fabric-covered aircraft of its own generation this was a serious advance. Against armoured monoplanes it was less decisive, but it still made the Gladiator the hardest-hitting biplane fighter the RAF ever used.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"scard\">\n<div class=\"st\">The Sea Gladiator<\/div>\n<h3>A fighter for the carriers<\/h3>\n<p>The navalised Gladiator gave the Fleet Air Arm a stopgap fighter.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read more<\/summary>\n<p style=\"margin-top:10px\">The Fleet Air Arm needed a modern-enough carrier fighter and turned the Gladiator into the Sea Gladiator, adding an arrestor hook, catapult points and a stowed dinghy in a fairing under the fuselage.<\/p>\n<p>Sea Gladiators served aboard British carriers and, famously, in the defence of Malta. They were always an interim type, but they bridged the gap until monoplane naval fighters arrived.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"scard\">\n<div class=\"st\">The survivor<\/div>\n<h3>The last one flying<\/h3>\n<p>One airworthy Gladiator still displays in England.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read more<\/summary>\n<p style=\"margin-top:10px\">Today a single airworthy Gladiator &#8212; G-AMRK, an aircraft built in 1937 as L8032 &#8212; flies with the Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden. It usually wears the markings of a 1930s RAF fighter.<\/p>\n<p>It is one of the very few flying biplane fighters of its era anywhere in the world, and seeing it fly is a rare privilege &#8212; though it is a display aircraft, not a bookable passenger ride.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"scard\">\n<div class=\"st\">Preserved<\/div>\n<h3>Gladiators in museums<\/h3>\n<p>Static survivors are scattered across Europe.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read more<\/summary>\n<p style=\"margin-top:10px\">Beyond the flying aircraft, static Gladiators and Sea Gladiators are preserved in Britain, Malta, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Belgium and Portugal &#8212; a spread that mirrors the type&#8217;s wide wartime service.<\/p>\n<p>The most famous is the fuselage of Sea Gladiator N5520 &#8220;Faith&#8221;, preserved in Malta as a relic of the island&#8217;s 1940 defence and one of the war&#8217;s most cherished aircraft.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"scard\">\n<div class=\"st\">The legacy<\/div>\n<h3>An honoured obsolescence<\/h3>\n<p>The Gladiator is remembered for fighting on regardless.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read more<\/summary>\n<p style=\"margin-top:10px\">The Gladiator was never the best fighter of the Second World War &#8212; it was outdated before the shooting started. Yet it is remembered with more affection than many superior aircraft, because of where and how it fought.<\/p>\n<p>Norway, Malta, Greece, the desert: wherever modern fighters were scarce, the old biplane held the line. That is why the last RAF biplane fighter still has such a hold on the imagination.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cbtns\"><button class=\"cbtn\" onclick=\"document.getElementById('gxtrack').scrollBy({left:-380,behavior:'smooth'})\" aria-label=\"Previous\">&#8249;<\/button><button class=\"cbtn\" onclick=\"document.getElementById('gxtrack').scrollBy({left:380,behavior:'smooth'})\" aria-label=\"Next\">&#8250;<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sec\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kicker\">The Gladiator in Depth<\/p>\n<h2>The Gloster Gladiator, campaign by campaign<\/h2>\n<p class=\"lead\" style=\"margin-bottom:8px\">Ten closer looks at how the Gladiator actually fought &#8212; and why it mattered.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gd\">\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"num\">08<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The Gloster Gladiator in Norway: the battle from the ice<\/span><span class=\"pm\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gd-body\">\n<p>The Norwegian campaign of 1940 produced one of the most extraordinary episodes of the Gladiator&#8217;s career. No. 263 Squadron was shipped to Norway and, lacking any proper airfield, operated from the frozen surface of Lake Lesjaskog, its aircraft taking off and landing on the ice.<\/p>\n<p>Ground crews fought the cold as much as the enemy: engines froze, guns jammed, and German bombers pounded the exposed lake. Within a couple of days most of the Gladiators had been destroyed on the ice or in the air. A second deployment operated from a land strip and fought hard before the whole Allied position in Norway collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>It was a hopeless campaign, but the Norway Gladiators became a symbol of improvised courage &#8212; obsolescent biplanes flown from a frozen lake against a modern air force.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"num\">09<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The Gloster Gladiator and the defence of Malta: legend and reality<\/span><span class=\"pm\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gd-body\">\n<p>The defence of Malta in June 1940 is the Gladiator&#8217;s most famous story. When Italy entered the war, Malta had almost no fighter defence &#8212; but a batch of Sea Gladiators, crated at Kalafrana as spares for Fleet Air Arm carriers, was assembled to meet the Italian raids.<\/p>\n<p>The popular version says three biplanes named &#8220;Faith&#8221;, &#8220;Hope&#8221; and &#8220;Charity&#8221; held off the Italian air force alone. The reality is that around six Sea Gladiators were made serviceable, of which perhaps three could fly at once, and that Hurricanes began arriving to reinforce the island by late June 1940. The famous names were applied later, reportedly by a Maltese newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>None of this diminishes the achievement. A tiny force of obsolescent naval biplanes, flown by a handful of pilots, gave Malta a fighter defence when it had almost nothing else. The legend simplifies the facts, but the courage behind it was entirely real.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"num\">10<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The Gloster Gladiator over Greece: the type&#8217;s finest campaign<\/span><span class=\"pm\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gd-body\">\n<p>When Italy invaded Greece in October 1940, the Gladiator found one of its best fights. RAF squadrons and the Royal Hellenic Air Force flew Gladiators over the mountains against Italian bombers and fighters, and in the swirling, low-speed combats of that front the agile biplane was in its element.<\/p>\n<p>Greek Gladiator pilots became national heroes, and RAF units claimed a string of victories. The enemy was often flying biplanes and early monoplanes of its own, so the Gladiator was not hopelessly outmatched as it was against the Luftwaffe.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign ended badly when Germany intervened in 1941, but for a few months over Greece the Gladiator fought and won as the modern fighter it had briefly been.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"num\">11<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The Gloster Gladiator in East Africa: the forgotten campaign<\/span><span class=\"pm\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gd-body\">\n<p>The East African campaign of 1940&#8211;41 saw the Gladiator serve as the most modern fighter available across a vast theatre. Operating from Sudan, Kenya and beyond, RAF and South African Gladiators supported the offensive that destroyed Italian East Africa and liberated Ethiopia and Eritrea.<\/p>\n<p>One Gladiator pilot in the region, Flying Officer John &#8220;Eagle&#8221; Ambrose and others of his kind, built up scores against Italian aircraft in conditions of extreme heat, dust and long distances. The air-cooled Mercury engine proved its worth where liquid-cooled types would have struggled.<\/p>\n<p>It was an unglamorous, far-off campaign, but the Gladiator was central to it &#8212; a reminder that the type&#8217;s war was fought as much in Africa as over Britain and the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"num\">12<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The Gloster Gladiator versus the Fiat CR.42: the last biplane duels<\/span><span class=\"pm\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gd-body\">\n<p>Over the Western Desert, and earlier over Greece, the Gladiator met the Italian Fiat CR.42 Falco &#8212; the two air forces&#8217; last biplane fighters, pitched against each other in combats that could have come from an earlier war.<\/p>\n<p>The two aircraft were closely matched: the CR.42 was a little faster and beautifully agile, the Gladiator carried heavier gun armament with its four .303s. Outcomes depended largely on numbers, tactics and pilot skill rather than any decisive technical edge.<\/p>\n<p>These were among the last times biplane fighters duelled each other in quantity. Within a year both had been eclipsed by monoplanes, and the age of the fighter biplane closed for good.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"num\">13<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The Gloster Gladiator&#8217;s armament: four guns instead of two<\/span><span class=\"pm\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gd-body\">\n<p>The Gladiator&#8217;s four .303-inch machine guns were a genuine step forward. Two were mounted in the fuselage, synchronised to fire through the propeller, and one was carried under each lower wing. Earlier RAF biplane fighters had made do with just two guns.<\/p>\n<p>Four rifle-calibre guns gave a useful weight of fire against the fabric-and-metal aircraft of the late 1930s. Against the armoured, self-sealing monoplanes that appeared during the war, however, the same battery was much less effective &#8212; one reason the eight-gun Hurricane and Spitfire were such an advance.<\/p>\n<p>The Sea Gladiator could be fitted with the same four-gun battery. It was the heaviest armament any RAF biplane fighter carried, and it made the Gladiator a dangerous opponent within its own generation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"num\">14<\/span><span class=\"gt\">How fast was the Gloster Gladiator, really?<\/span><span class=\"pm\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gd-body\">\n<p>The Gladiator Mk II had a top speed of roughly 257 mph (414 km\/h) at altitude. In 1937 that was competitive for a fighter; by 1940 it was slow, with modern monoplanes exceeding 320 mph and climbing and diving far better.<\/p>\n<p>Speed, though, was not the Gladiator&#8217;s strength &#8212; agility was. Its light wing loading gave it a tight turning circle that few monoplanes could match, and in a close dogfight against another biplane it was formidable. The problem was that fast monoplanes could simply refuse the turning fight, diving in to attack and climbing away.<\/p>\n<p>The Gladiator is a classic example of an aircraft whose one great quality &#8212; manoeuvrability &#8212; was made largely irrelevant by a change in how air combat was fought. It could still win against its own kind; against the next generation it was dangerously exposed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"num\">15<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The Gloster Sea Gladiator: the Fleet Air Arm&#8217;s stopgap<\/span><span class=\"pm\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gd-body\">\n<p>The Sea Gladiator was the Royal Navy&#8217;s answer to an urgent need for a carrier fighter. It added an arrestor hook, catapult spools and a stowed dinghy to the basic Gladiator, and served aboard carriers such as HMS Glorious, Eagle and Courageous.<\/p>\n<p>It was never intended as a long-term solution &#8212; the Fleet Air Arm knew monoplanes were coming &#8212; but it gave the Navy a modern-enough fighter at a critical moment. And it was Sea Gladiators, drawn from crated spares, that flew Malta&#8217;s first defence in 1940.<\/p>\n<p>The surviving fuselage of Sea Gladiator N5520 &#8220;Faith&#8221;, preserved in Malta, is the most tangible link to that episode &#8212; a battered naval biplane that became a national relic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"num\">16<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The Gloster Gladiator abroad: a global export success<\/span><span class=\"pm\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gd-body\">\n<p>The Gladiator was one of the most widely exported fighters of its day. Beyond the RAF and Fleet Air Arm, it served with Sweden, Finland, Norway, Belgium, Greece, China, Iraq, Portugal, Latvia, Lithuania, Ireland, Egypt and South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>That spread meant Gladiators fought on both sides of some conflicts&#8217; margins: Finnish and Swedish Gladiators against the Soviets, Chinese Gladiators against Japan, Greek and British Gladiators against Italy. Few 1930s fighters saw such geographically scattered combat.<\/p>\n<p>It is also why surviving Gladiators are found across Europe today &#8212; the legacy of a fighter that was sold widely and flown hard in a dozen different air forces.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"num\">17<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The Gloster Gladiator&#8217;s decline: eclipsed by the monoplane<\/span><span class=\"pm\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gd-body\">\n<p>By 1941 the Gladiator&#8217;s front-line career was effectively over. The Hurricane and Spitfire had taken over home defence and the Mediterranean; in the desert and over Malta, monoplanes replaced the biplanes as fast as they could be delivered.<\/p>\n<p>The Gladiator was not so much defeated as overtaken. It slipped into second-line roles &#8212; meteorological flights, communications, target-towing and training &#8212; where its docile handling and reliability were assets rather than liabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Its withdrawal was inevitable and orderly, the natural retirement of a design that had been obsolescent from the day it entered service. But by then it had already earned its place in history over Norway, Malta and Greece.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sec\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kicker\">More on the Gladiator<\/p>\n<h2>The Gloster Gladiator: design, rivals and legacy<\/h2>\n<div class=\"gd\">\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"num\">18<\/span><span class=\"gt\">Why the Gloster Gladiator was already obsolete when war came<\/span><span class=\"pm\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gd-body\">\n<p>The Gladiator&#8217;s tragedy was timing. It was designed in the early 1930s, when the biplane fighter still made sense, and it entered service in 1937 &#8212; the very year the monoplane fighter came of age with the Bf 109, Hurricane and Spitfire.<\/p>\n<p>A biplane&#8217;s two wings and bracing wires create drag that caps its speed no matter how much power is added. The monoplane broke that ceiling, and once it did, the biplane fighter had no future. The Gladiator was the finest example of a design philosophy that had just been made redundant.<\/p>\n<p>That it fought so well regardless &#8212; in Norway, over Malta, in Greece and Africa &#8212; is a testament to its pilots and to the qualities it did have: agility, reliability and heavier-than-usual firepower.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"num\">19<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The Gloster Gladiator versus the Hawker Hurricane<\/span><span class=\"pm\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gd-body\">\n<p>The Hurricane replaced the Gladiator in RAF service, and the contrast between them shows just how fast fighter design moved. The Hurricane was around 70 mph faster, carried eight guns instead of four, and was an all-metal monoplane where the Gladiator was a fabric biplane.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the two overlapped in service, and in the Mediterranean and desert Hurricanes and Gladiators sometimes flew alongside each other in 1940. The Gladiator held the line until enough Hurricanes arrived, then handed over the fight.<\/p>\n<p>The relationship was less rivalry than succession: the Gladiator was the last of the old order, the Hurricane the workhorse of the new. Together they carried the RAF from the biplane era into the Battle of Britain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"num\">20<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The Gloster Gladiator versus the Fiat CR.42 Falco<\/span><span class=\"pm\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gd-body\">\n<p>The CR.42 was the Gladiator&#8217;s exact counterpart on the Italian side &#8212; a late-1930s biplane fighter that stubbornly outlived the arrival of the monoplane. The two met over Greece and the desert in some of the last biplane-versus-biplane combats in history.<\/p>\n<p>The Falco was marginally faster and superbly agile; the Gladiator carried heavier machine-gun armament. Neither had a decisive edge, and combats were usually settled by numbers and tactics. Both aircraft were, by 1940, fighting a war that had already moved beyond them.<\/p>\n<p>That both nations still fielded biplane fighters in 1940 shows how recently the monoplane revolution had happened &#8212; and how quickly it swept the older type aside.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"num\">21<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The Gloster Gladiator&#8217;s influence and place in the Gloster story<\/span><span class=\"pm\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gd-body\">\n<p>The Gladiator was the last biplane Gloster built, and the last biplane fighter the RAF operated. But Gloster&#8217;s story did not end there: the same company went on to build Britain&#8217;s first operational jet fighter, the Gloster Meteor, only a few years later.<\/p>\n<p>That leap &#8212; from fabric biplane to jet fighter in under a decade &#8212; captures the astonishing pace of 1930s and 1940s aviation. The Gladiator sits right at the hinge of it, the final expression of one era from a company about to help usher in the next.<\/p>\n<p>So the Gladiator&#8217;s significance is partly symbolic: it marks the exact end of the biplane fighter, a lineage that ran from the First World War to the eve of the jet age.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"num\">22<\/span><span class=\"gt\">How many Gloster Gladiators were built?<\/span><span class=\"pm\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gd-body\">\n<p>Production of the Gladiator is usually given as around 747 aircraft, a total that includes roughly 480 Mk I, about 270 Mk II, and a batch of Sea Gladiators &#8212; but the exact figures vary between sources depending on how exports and conversions are counted.<\/p>\n<p>Of these, well over 200 were exported to more than a dozen countries, making the Gladiator one of the most widely sold fighters of its generation. The rest served with the RAF and the Fleet Air Arm at home and across the world.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the precise total, the Gladiator was built in modest numbers compared with the monoplanes that followed &#8212; the Hurricane and Spitfire ran to many thousands each. It was the last of a smaller, older kind of fighter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sec\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kicker\">Equipment &amp; Operations<\/p>\n<h2>The Gloster Gladiator: cockpit, guns and survivors<\/h2>\n<div class=\"gd\">\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"num\">23<\/span><span class=\"gt\">Inside the Gloster Gladiator: the pilot&#8217;s office<\/span><span class=\"pm\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gd-body\">\n<p>The Gladiator gave its single pilot something new for an RAF fighter: an enclosed cockpit with a sliding canopy, sheltering him from the freezing slipstream that open-cockpit pilots had endured for a generation. Behind a simple instrument panel he had a control column, rudder pedals and gun controls.<\/p>\n<p>It was still a fighter of its time &#8212; no armour to speak of, no self-sealing tanks, and a fixed undercarriage. But the canopy, the reflector gunsight fitted to later aircraft and the four-gun armament made it a noticeably more modern place to fight than the biplanes that came before.<\/p>\n<p>Pilots generally liked the Gladiator. It was docile, agile and honest to fly &#8212; qualities that made it forgiving in the improvised, desperate conditions of Norway, Malta and the desert.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"num\">24<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The Gloster Gladiator&#8217;s guns and gunsight<\/span><span class=\"pm\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gd-body\">\n<p>The Gladiator&#8217;s four .303-inch machine guns were arranged with two in the fuselage, synchronised to fire through the propeller arc, and one under each lower wing outside it. Later aircraft used Browning guns; earlier ones a mix of Vickers and Lewis weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Aiming was through a simple reflector or ring-and-bead sight. Four rifle-calibre guns delivered a useful punch against 1930s aircraft, though the short firing time and light calibre were limitations that the eight-gun monoplanes soon exposed.<\/p>\n<p>Still, no earlier RAF biplane fighter had carried as many guns. Within its own generation the Gladiator was a hard hitter, and its firepower was one of the reasons it remained competitive against Italian biplanes into 1940 and 1941.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"num\">25<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The Gloster Gladiator in second-line service<\/span><span class=\"pm\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gd-body\">\n<p>Once the Hurricane and Spitfire had taken over front-line fighting, the Gladiator found a long afterlife in second-line roles. It flew meteorological sorties, gathering weather data at altitude; it carried messages and passengers on communications flights; and it served as a hack and trainer.<\/p>\n<p>These were unglamorous duties, but they kept the type in RAF service until near the end of the war, long after it had ceased to be a viable fighter. Its reliability and easy handling made it well suited to them.<\/p>\n<p>It is a common fate for obsolescent aircraft &#8212; retired from combat, they soldier on in the quiet, essential jobs that keep an air force running. The Gladiator did so with the same dependability it had shown in battle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"num\">26<\/span><span class=\"gt\">Flying and preserving the surviving Gloster Gladiators<\/span><span class=\"pm\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gd-body\">\n<p>Only one airworthy Gladiator survives &#8212; G-AMRK, built in 1937 as L8032 and now flown by the Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden. Keeping a fabric-covered biplane with a hand-built radial engine in the air is a formidable and expensive undertaking.<\/p>\n<p>Static Gladiators and Sea Gladiators are preserved in Britain, Malta, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Belgium and Portugal, including the celebrated fuselage of &#8220;Faith&#8221; on Malta. Between them they preserve almost the whole span of the type&#8217;s service.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing the Shuttleworth aircraft fly is a rare privilege &#8212; one of very few flying pre-war biplane fighters anywhere in the world. It is a display aircraft, though, not a passenger ride: you can watch it fly, but you cannot book a seat in it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sec\" style=\"background:#f6f8fb\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kicker\">Photo Gallery<\/p>\n<h2>The Gloster Gladiator in photographs<\/h2>\n<div class=\"gtrack\">\n<figure><img data-opt-id=301239146  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1536\/h:1024\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/gloster-gladiator-airworthy-n5903-g-glad.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201536%201024%22%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221024%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221024%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"Airworthy Gloster Gladiator N5903 flying at a UK airshow\"><figcaption>The airworthy Gloster Gladiator N5903 (G-GLAD) in the air. Photo Alan Wilson, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><img data-opt-id=188921736  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1361\/h:1080\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/gloster-sea-gladiator-n5520-faith-malta.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201536%201218%22%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221218%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221218%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"Gloster Sea Gladiator N5520, one of the Malta Gladiators\"><figcaption>Sea Gladiator N5520 &#8212; later nicknamed &#8220;Faith&#8221; &#8212; at a Malta airfield, 1940. Official RAF photograph, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><img data-opt-id=1754826669  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1536\/h:1024\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/gloster-sea-gladiator-n5518.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201536%201024%22%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221024%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221024%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"Preserved Gloster Sea Gladiator N5518\"><figcaption>The preserved Gloster Sea Gladiator N5518. Photo Alan Wilson, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><img data-opt-id=1593962989  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1536\/h:1038\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/gloster-gladiator-norway-1940.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201536%201038%22%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221038%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221038%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"Gloster Gladiator associated with the 1940 Norwegian campaign\"><figcaption>A Gloster Gladiator relic recovered in Norway, where No. 263 Squadron fought in 1940. Photo Terje S&#248;gaard, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><img data-opt-id=414593535  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1024\/h:612\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/gloster-gladiator-finland-winter-war-gl-269.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201024%20612%22%20width%3D%221024%22%20height%3D%22612%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%221024%22%20height%3D%22612%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"Finnish Gloster Gladiator GL-269 brought down in the Winter War\"><figcaption>Finnish Gladiator GL-269, brought down on the ice during the Winter War, 29 February 1940. Finnish Wartime Photograph Archive (SA-kuva), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><img data-opt-id=1894897612  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/gloster-gladiator-portuguese-air-force.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20100%%20100%%22%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"Gloster Gladiator in Portuguese Air Force service\"><figcaption>A Gloster Gladiator in Portuguese service &#8212; one of many export operators. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><img data-opt-id=989414230  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/gloster-sea-gladiator-faith-fuselage-malta.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20100%%20100%%22%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"The preserved fuselage of Malta Gloster Sea Gladiator N5520 Faith\"><figcaption>The surviving fuselage of Malta&#8217;s Gladiator &#8220;Faith&#8221; (N5520), a national relic. War Office official photographer, IWM, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"fnote\">All images sourced from Wikimedia Commons and credited individually above; licences are noted in each caption.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sec\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kicker\">On Film<\/p>\n<h2>The Gloster Gladiator on film<\/h2>\n<p class=\"lead\" style=\"margin-bottom:24px\">A concise, well-sourced history of the Gladiator and its most famous campaigns, from an established aviation-history channel.<\/p>\n<div class=\"vidwrap\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xTpJA9-3vOs\" title=\"Gladiator - The Forgotten Battle of Britain Fighter (Mark Felton Productions)\" loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class=\"vcap\">&#8220;Gladiator &#8212; The Forgotten Battle of Britain Fighter&#8221; by Mark Felton Productions, an established military-history channel (over 500,000 views).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sec\" style=\"background:#f6f8fb\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kicker\">Operations Map<\/p>\n<h2>Where the Gloster Gladiator served<\/h2>\n<p class=\"lead\" style=\"font-size:18px;color:#3a4353;max-width:760px;margin:0 auto 30px\">The Gladiator was a truly global fighter: flown by the RAF, exported to more than a dozen air forces, and fought over Europe, the Mediterranean, Africa and China. 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\"><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(){var el=document.getElementById(\"glad-data\");var js=decodeURIComponent(escape(atob(el.getAttribute(\"data-js\"))));var sc=document.createElement(\"script\");sc.text=js;document.body.appendChild(sc);})();<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sec\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kicker\">By the Numbers<\/p>\n<h2>The Gloster Gladiator by the numbers<\/h2>\n<p class=\"lead\" style=\"margin-bottom:26px\">A short summary of the last RAF biplane fighter&#8217;s scale and service.<\/p>\n<div class=\"combat\">\n<div class=\"cstat\"><b>~747<\/b><span>Gladiators built (figures vary)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"cstat\"><b>13+<\/b><span>Countries that operated the type<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"cstat\"><b>4<\/b><span>.303 machine guns &#8212; twice earlier biplanes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"cstat\"><b>1<\/b><span>Airworthy Gladiator flying today<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sec\" style=\"background:#f6f8fb\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kicker\">Where to See One<\/p>\n<h2>Surviving Gloster Gladiators on display<\/h2>\n<p class=\"lead\" style=\"margin-bottom:24px\">One Gladiator still flies, and static survivors are preserved across Europe &#8212; including the most famous relic of all, on Malta.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cards\">\n<div class=\"card\">\n<div class=\"n\">01<\/div>\n<h3>Old Warden, England<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size:14.5px;color:#5C91FF;margin:0 0 8px\"><b>The Shuttleworth Collection.<\/b> The world&#8217;s only airworthy Gladiator, G-AMRK, flies here at Old Warden airshows.<\/p>\n<p>Built in 1937 as L8032, the aircraft usually wears the markings of a 1930s RAF fighter. It displays at Shuttleworth&#8217;s flying events but is not available for passenger flights &#8212; it is a single-seat fighter and an irreplaceable survivor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"card\">\n<div class=\"n\">02<\/div>\n<h3>Valletta, Malta<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size:14.5px;color:#5C91FF;margin:0 0 8px\"><b>National War Museum, Fort St Elmo.<\/b> The fuselage of Sea Gladiator N5520 &#8220;Faith&#8221; is preserved as a relic of the 1940 defence.<\/p>\n<p>It is the sole survivor of the Malta Sea Gladiators and one of the most cherished aircraft relics of the war &#8212; the tangible core of the &#8220;Faith, Hope and Charity&#8221; story.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"card\">\n<div class=\"n\">03<\/div>\n<h3>Scandinavia &amp; Europe<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size:14.5px;color:#5C91FF;margin:0 0 8px\"><b>Norway, Finland, Sweden, Belgium &amp; Portugal.<\/b> Static Gladiators are preserved in several national aviation museums.<\/p>\n<p>These airframes reflect the type&#8217;s wide export service &#8212; from the Winter War in the north to neutral Portugal in the south &#8212; and keep almost the whole span of the Gladiator&#8217;s career on public display.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"fnote\">Between them these aircraft &#8212; one flying, the rest preserved &#8212; represent the full sweep of the Gladiator&#8217;s service, from the RAF to a dozen export air forces.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sec\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kicker\">Legacy<\/p>\n<h2>Remembering the Gloster Gladiator<\/h2>\n<div class=\"story\">\n<p>It is easy to file the Gladiator away as an also-ran &#8212; a biplane that was obsolete before it fired a shot in anger, swept aside by the monoplanes that won the war. And by the cold measures of speed and firepower, that is true.<\/p>\n<p>But aircraft are remembered for more than their statistics. The Gladiator is remembered for the frozen lake in Norway, for the crated Sea Gladiators that rose to defend Malta, for the Greek pilots who became heroes over their own mountains, and for the Finnish and Swedish airmen who fought the Soviets in the snow. It fought, and fought well, in places where nothing better was available.<\/p>\n<p>That is why the last RAF biplane fighter still draws crowds when it flies at Old Warden, and why the battered fuselage of &#8220;Faith&#8221; is a national treasure on Malta. The Gladiator was the end of one age of air fighting &#8212; and it went out not quietly, but in a blaze of desperate, honourable courage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sec\" style=\"background:#f6f8fb\" id=\"faq\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kicker\">Questions &amp; Answers<\/p>\n<h2>Gloster Gladiator: your questions answered<\/h2>\n<div class=\"faq\">\n<details class=\"qa\" open=\"\">\n<summary>Can I fly in a Gloster Gladiator?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p>No &#8212; not as a paying passenger. The Gladiator is a single-seat fighter, and no company, including MiGFlug, offers passenger flights in one. The world&#8217;s only airworthy example, G-AMRK, is flown by the Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden airshows, so you can <b>watch<\/b> a Gladiator fly &#8212; but it is a display aircraft, not a bookable ride.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to actually fly in a piece of military-aviation history, though, you can. MiGFlug offers flights in genuine military jets, from the L-39 Albatros to the MiG-29 Fulcrum &#8212; see <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/\">migflug.com\/flights-prices\/<\/a> for what is bookable today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"qa\">\n<summary>Is the story of Faith, Hope and Charity true?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p>It is a celebrated legend that simplifies real events. The popular version &#8212; that just three Gladiators defended Malta alone in 1940 &#8212; is romanticised. In reality about six Sea Gladiators were assembled from crated spares at Kalafrana, of which perhaps three could fly at any one time, and Hurricanes began reinforcing Malta by late June 1940.<\/p>\n<p>The names &#8220;Faith&#8221;, &#8220;Hope&#8221; and &#8220;Charity&#8221; were applied later, reportedly by a Maltese newspaper. The neat three-fighter tale is partly myth &#8212; but the courage of the pilots who defended Malta with obsolescent biplanes was entirely real.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"qa\">\n<summary>How fast was the Gloster Gladiator?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p>The Gladiator Mk II had a top speed of about 257 mph (414 km\/h) at altitude. That was competitive for a fighter in 1937 but slow by 1940, when monoplane fighters such as the Hurricane, Spitfire and Bf 109 all exceeded 320 mph and could out-climb and out-dive it. The Gladiator&#8217;s strength was agility, not speed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"qa\">\n<summary>What armament did the Gloster Gladiator carry?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p>The Gladiator carried four .303-inch (7.7 mm) machine guns &#8212; two in the fuselage, synchronised to fire through the propeller, and one under each lower wing. This was double the two-gun armament of earlier RAF biplane fighters and made the Gladiator the hardest-hitting British biplane fighter, though it was still outgunned by the eight-gun Hurricane and Spitfire.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"qa\">\n<summary>What was the Gloster Sea Gladiator?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p>The Sea Gladiator was the naval version, adapted for the Fleet Air Arm with an arrestor hook for carrier landings, catapult points, and a stowed inflatable dinghy in a fairing under the fuselage. Sea Gladiators served aboard British aircraft carriers and, most famously, flew the first fighter defence of Malta in 1940.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"qa\">\n<summary>Are there any Gloster Gladiators left today?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p>Yes. One airworthy Gladiator, G-AMRK, flies with the Shuttleworth Collection in England &#8212; the only flying example in the world. Static Gladiators and Sea Gladiators are preserved in the United Kingdom, Malta, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Belgium and Portugal, including the surviving fuselage of the Malta Gladiator &#8220;Faith&#8221; (N5520).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"qa\">\n<summary>How many Gloster Gladiators were built?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p>Around 747 Gladiators were built, including roughly 480 Mk I, some 270 Mk II and a batch of Sea Gladiators, though totals vary between sources. More than 200 were exported to over a dozen countries, making the Gladiator one of the most widely sold fighters of its generation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\", \"@type\": \"FAQPage\", \"mainEntity\": [{\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"Can I fly in a Gloster Gladiator?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"No \u2014 not as a paying passenger. 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What you can do is fly in a genuine military jet with MiGFlug.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ctacar\">\n<div class=\"ctacard\">\n<div style=\"height:6px;background:#5C91FF\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"cc\">\n<h3>Fighter Jet Flights<\/h3>\n<p>Take the controls of a real ex-military jet with an experienced pilot.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ctabtn\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/\">See flights &amp; prices<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ctacard\">\n<div style=\"height:6px;background:#5C91FF\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"cc\">\n<h3>L-39 Albatros<\/h3>\n<p>The classic jet trainer &#8212; aerobatics and high-speed passes.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ctabtn\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/\">See flights &amp; prices<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ctacard\">\n<div style=\"height:6px;background:#5C91FF\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"cc\">\n<h3>MiG-29 Fulcrum<\/h3>\n<p>Ride a genuine air-superiority fighter to the edge of space.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ctabtn\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/\">See flights &amp; prices<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ctacard\">\n<div style=\"height:6px;background:#5C91FF\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"cc\">\n<h3>Supersonic experiences<\/h3>\n<p>Break the sound barrier in a real military jet.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ctabtn\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/\">See flights &amp; prices<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sec\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kicker\">Related Aircraft<\/p>\n<h2>More from the Aircraft Museum<\/h2>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"relcard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/hawker-hurricane\/\"><img data-opt-id=1867397637  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1024\/h:763\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/hawker-hurricane-mk-i-egypt-1940.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201024%20763%22%20width%3D%221024%22%20height%3D%22763%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%221024%22%20height%3D%22763%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"Hawker Hurricane\"><span class=\"rc\"><span class=\"rt\">Hawker Hurricane<\/span><span class=\"rd\">The monoplane workhorse that replaced the Gladiator and won the Battle of Britain.<\/span><\/span><\/a><a class=\"relcard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/supermarine-spitfire\/\"><img data-opt-id=125977928  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/supermarine-spitfire-card.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20100%%20100%%22%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"Supermarine Spitfire\"><span class=\"rc\"><span class=\"rt\">Supermarine Spitfire<\/span><span class=\"rd\">The elegant monoplane that made the biplane fighter obsolete for good.<\/span><\/span><\/a><a class=\"relcard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/fiat-cr-42-falco\/\"><img data-opt-id=1007034327  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1024\/h:676\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/fiat-cr-42-falco-1024x676.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201024%20676%22%20width%3D%221024%22%20height%3D%22676%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%221024%22%20height%3D%22676%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"Fiat CR.42 Falco\"><span class=\"rc\"><span class=\"rt\">Fiat CR.42 Falco<\/span><span class=\"rd\">Italy&#8217;s last biplane fighter &#8212; the Gladiator&#8217;s direct opposite number.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sec\" style=\"background:#f6f8fb\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kicker\">Sources &amp; Further Reading<\/p>\n<h2>Where this page&#8217;s facts come from<\/h2>\n<div class=\"srcgrid\">\n<div class=\"srcitem\"><b>Royal Air Force Museum<\/b><span>History, service record and airframes of the Gladiator.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"srcitem\"><b>Imperial War Museums (IWM)<\/b><span>Photographs and records of Gladiator operations, including Malta.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"srcitem\"><b>The Shuttleworth Collection<\/b><span>The world&#8217;s only airworthy Gladiator (G-AMRK \/ L8032) and its history.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"srcitem\"><b>Fleet Air Arm Museum<\/b><span>The Sea Gladiator and its naval service.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"srcitem\"><b>National War Museum, Malta<\/b><span>The preserved fuselage of Sea Gladiator N5520 &#8220;Faith&#8221;.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"srcitem\"><b>Francis K. Mason, &#8220;The Gloster Gladiator&#8221;<\/b><span>Standard reference monograph on the type.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"srcitem\"><b>William Green, &#8220;Warplanes of the Second World War&#8221;<\/b><span>Widely used reference for specifications and variants.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"srcitem\"><b>Alex Crawford, &#8220;Gloster Gladiator&#8221; (Mushroom)<\/b><span>Detailed reference on variants, operators and survivors.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"srcitem\"><b>Norwegian Armed Forces Aircraft Collection<\/b><span>The Norway campaign and preserved Norwegian Gladiators.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"srcitem\"><b>Finnish Aviation Museum \/ SA-kuva archive<\/b><span>Finnish Gladiators and the Winter War.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"srcitem\"><b>The National Archives (Air Ministry records)<\/b><span>Squadron operational records for Gladiator units.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"srcitem\"><b>MiGFlug Afterburner magazine<\/b><span>Features on Second World War aircraft, warbirds and military flying.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"fnote\">Figures for speed, range, weights, production and operators are drawn from the museum and reference sources above; where sources differ, values are given as approximate and marked as estimates. The Malta &#8220;Faith, Hope and Charity&#8221; story is presented as a celebrated legend with the historical nuance noted in the text. 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