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64px;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:9px 0}#mfam .fname{font-size:14px;font-weight:600}#mfam .fbar{display:block;background:#eef1f6;height:16px}#mfam .fbar i{display:block;height:16px;background:#5C91FF}#mfam .fnum{font-size:14px;text-align:right;color:#3d4654;font-variant-numeric:tabular-nums}#mfam .spx-lede{font-size:17px;line-height:1.7;color:#3d4654;max-width:760px;margin:0 0 28px}#mfam .spx-note{font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;color:#697386;margin-top:18px;max-width:860px}@media(max-width:820px){#mfam .armgrid{grid-template-columns:1fr}#mfam .loadouts dl{grid-template-columns:1fr}#mfam .varlist{grid-template-columns:1fr}#mfam .frow{grid-template-columns:110px 1fr 56px;gap:10px}}<\/style>\n<p> <script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"Can I fly in a Gloster Meteor?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"No public Gloster Meteor rides are available. 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They are among the oldest jets still flying.\"}}]}<\/script> <\/p>\n<header class=\"hero\">\n<div class=\"hero-media\"><img data-opt-id=1975743743  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-meteor-jet-fighter.jpg\"  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=\"Gloster Meteor, the Allies\u2019 only operational WWII jet fighter\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wrap hero-in\">\n<div class=\"crumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/\">Aircraft Museum<\/a> \u203a <span>Jet Fighter<\/span> \u203a <span>Gloster Meteor<\/span><\/div>\n<h1>Gloster Meteor<br \/><em>\u201cMeatbox\u201d<\/em><\/h1>\n<p class=\"sub\">Britain\u2019s first jet fighter and the only Allied jet to see combat in the Second World War \u2014 a straight-winged twin-jet that chased down V-1 flying bombs, set two world air-speed records, and, in a handful of aircraft, still flies today firing live ejection seats.<\/p>\n<div class=\"statstrip\">\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>5 Mar 1943<\/b><span>First flight \u00b7 prototype DG206<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>July 1944<\/b><span>Only Allied jet in WWII combat<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>~3,900<\/b><span>Aircraft built<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>616 mph<\/b><span>World air-speed record \u00b7 1946<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"credit\">Photo: Adrian Pingstone \u00b7 Public domain<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"chips\"><span class=\"chip\"><b>Role<\/b>Jet fighter, interceptor &amp; night-fighter<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Era<\/b>WWII &amp; early Cold War<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Engine<\/b>2 \u00d7 Rolls-Royce Derwent<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Origin<\/b>United Kingdom \u00b7 Gloster<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Status<\/b>Retired (warbirds fly)<\/span><a class=\"chip fly\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/\">Fly a fighter jet yourself<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">The Story<\/div>\n<h2>The jet that beat the doodlebugs<\/h2>\n<div class=\"cols\">\n<div>\n<p>By the early 1940s Britain held a secret that could rewrite air combat: the <strong>centrifugal-flow turbojet<\/strong> pioneered by <strong>Frank Whittle<\/strong> and his Power Jets team. The Gloster Aircraft Company was handed the job of wrapping a fighter around it. Rather than gamble everything on one immature engine, Gloster gave the aircraft <strong>two<\/strong> \u2014 a twin-engine, straight-winged machine that first flew on <strong>5 March 1943<\/strong> and reached the RAF in July 1944 as the <strong>Meteor<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It went to war almost at once. No. 616 Squadron took its Meteors up against the <strong>V-1 flying bombs<\/strong> raining on southern England \u2014 and on 4 August 1944 a Meteor scored its first \u201cdoodlebug\u201d kill in one of the war\u2019s strangest dogfights: when the cannon jammed, the pilot slid a wingtip under the flying bomb\u2019s wing and <strong>tipped it out of the sky<\/strong>. The Meteor was the only Allied jet to fly combat in the Second World War, though it was deliberately kept from tangling with the Luftwaffe for fear one might fall into German hands.<\/p>\n<p>The Meteor never met the swept-wing Me 262 in the air, and post-war it was quickly outclassed as a dogfighter \u2014 a lesson driven home over Korea, where Australian Meteors met the <strong>MiG-15<\/strong>. Yet the design proved astonishingly durable. It set world speed records, soldiered on as day fighter, night-fighter, trainer, target-tug and drone, and a pair of Meteors <strong>still fly today<\/strong> as Martin-Baker\u2019s ejection-seat testbeds \u2014 among the oldest jets in the sky.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pull\">Cannon jammed, so he tipped the flying bomb out of the air with his wingtip.<cite><b>4 August 1944<\/b> \u2014 the first Meteor V-1 kill<\/cite><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"deepset\">\n<details class=\"deep\">\n<summary><span class=\"no\">01<\/span><span class=\"t\">How the Gloster Meteor became the only Allied jet to fight in World War II<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p>Germany fielded the Me 262 and the Arado Ar 234; Britain answered with the Meteor. It was the <strong>only Allied jet aircraft to see operational service in the war<\/strong>. But its early combat was tightly constrained: political and intelligence caution kept Meteors flying anti-V-1 patrols over England rather than sweeping over the Continent, precisely so that a jet \u2014 and its Whittle-derived engines \u2014 could not be captured. Only in the closing months, from early 1945, did Meteors deploy to Europe with the Second Tactical Air Force, and even then they flew ground attack and armed reconnaissance. A Meteor and an Me 262 never met in air combat \u2014 the great jet-versus-jet duel of WWII simply never happened.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Design &amp; Engineering<\/div>\n<h2>What makes the Meteor special<\/h2>\n<div class=\"cards3\">\n<div class=\"ecard\">\n<div class=\"num\">01<\/div>\n<h3>Twin centrifugal turbojets<\/h3>\n<p>The Meteor rode on two <strong>Whittle-derived centrifugal-flow turbojets<\/strong> \u2014 the Rolls-Royce Welland on the first marks, then the more powerful <strong>Rolls-Royce Derwent<\/strong>. Fat and robust rather than sleek, the centrifugal engine was reliable and quick to build at a time when slender axial engines were still failing. Two of them gave the Meteor a safety margin no single-jet fighter of 1944 could match: lose one and you could still fly home.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ecard\">\n<div class=\"num\">02<\/div>\n<h3>A jet built to be flown, not just flown once<\/h3>\n<p>For 1944 the Meteor was strikingly practical. It sat on a <strong>tricycle undercarriage<\/strong> with a nosewheel \u2014 far easier to take off and land than the tail-draggers of the day \u2014 and used <strong>air brakes<\/strong> to manage the clean jet\u2019s tendency to keep accelerating. Straight, unswept wings kept it docile and honest, if ultimately slower than the swept-wing jets that followed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ecard\">\n<div class=\"num\">03<\/div>\n<h3>The workhorse that would not retire<\/h3>\n<p>Few aircraft have worn as many hats. Beyond the day-fighter F.8, the Meteor served as <strong>night-fighter<\/strong> (NF.11-14), two-seat trainer (T.7), photo-recon, <strong>target tug<\/strong> and radio-controlled drone. Two-seat Meteors became <strong>Martin-Baker\u2019s ejection-seat test aircraft<\/strong> \u2014 and are still flying live seat firings today, certifying escape systems for aircraft as modern as the F-35.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"deepset\">\n<details class=\"deep\">\n<summary><span class=\"no\">02<\/span><span class=\"t\">Why the Gloster Meteor used two engines instead of one<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p>Whittle\u2019s early turbojets were powerful for their weight but individually modest in thrust, and jet engine reliability in the early 1940s was unproven. Gloster\u2019s answer was redundancy: mount <strong>two engines<\/strong> mid-wing so the aircraft had enough thrust to be a useful fighter and could survive an engine failure. The penalty was a wider, draggier airframe and demanding handling if an engine quit on take-off \u2014 asymmetric thrust from wing-mounted jets could be lethal, and it contributed to the type\u2019s grim training-accident record and the black nickname \u201cMeatbox.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"deep\">\n<summary><span class=\"no\">03<\/span><span class=\"t\">The Gloster Meteor\u2019s straight wing and the swept-wing revolution<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p>The Meteor was designed before swept-wing aerodynamics were understood in the West. Its straight wing made it stable, predictable and easy to fly, but it capped its speed and high-altitude performance. When the straight-winged Meteor F.8 met the swept-wing <strong>MiG-15<\/strong> over Korea in 1951, the gap was brutal: the MiG was faster, climbed harder and fought better at altitude. The Meteor was soon pushed into ground attack \u2014 a vivid demonstration of how quickly the swept wing made the first generation of straight-wing jets obsolete.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Technical Data<\/div>\n<h2>Full specifications<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-note\">Figures below are anchored on the single-seat <strong>Meteor F.8<\/strong> &mdash; the definitive day fighter, the most-produced mark by a wide margin, and the aircraft most people mean when they say &quot;Meteor&quot;. <span class=\"imp\">Where the wartime F.1 and F.3 or the two-seat NF.11 night fighter differ materially, the delta is given in grey. The Meteor was built over fifteen years across marks that shared little beyond a layout, so a single specification table flatters the type more than it should; published figures also vary between sources by a few per cent, and single-decimal precision is not warranted.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"specgrid three\">\n<div class=\"spectable\">\n<h4>Dimensions &amp; weights<\/h4>\n<dl>\n<dt>Crew<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>1<\/strong> <span class=\"imp\">(pilot) &mdash; 2 in tandem in the T.7 trainer and in every NF.11 to NF.14 night fighter<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Length<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>13.59 m<\/strong> <span class=\"imp\">(44 ft 7 in) &mdash; the F.8 fuselage was stretched about 76 cm (30 in) over the F.4 to take another fuel tank. F.3 12.57 m (41 ft 3 in); NF.11 14.78 m (48 ft 6 in) with the radar nose, and the NF.14 longer still.<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Wingspan<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>11.32 m<\/strong> <span class=\"imp\">(37 ft 2 in) with the clipped outer panels standard from the F.4 &mdash; the F.1, early F.3, the NF marks and the PR.10 kept the original long span of 13.11 m (43 ft 0 in), which climbed and cruised better but rolled far more slowly<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Height<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>3.96 m<\/strong> <span class=\"imp\">(13 ft 0 in)<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Wing area<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>32.5 m&sup2;<\/strong> <span class=\"imp\">(350 sq ft) clipped &mdash; 37.2 m&sup2; (400 sq ft) on the long-span marks<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Empty weight<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>4,846 kg<\/strong> <span class=\"imp\">(10,684 lb) &mdash; F.3 about 4,770 kg (10,520 lb); the NF.11 was some 600 kg heavier again once radar, a second crewman and the long wing went on<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Loaded weight<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>6,560 kg<\/strong> <span class=\"imp\">(14,460 lb) clean, full internal fuel and guns<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Max takeoff weight<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>8,664 kg<\/strong> <span class=\"imp\">(19,100 lb) &mdash; ventral and wing tanks plus a full external load<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Internal fuel<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>~1,500 L<\/strong> <span class=\"imp\">(~330 imp gal) &mdash; hedged deliberately, because sources disagree on whether the quoted figure includes the extra fuselage cell the F.8 stretch was made for. In practice a Meteor almost always flew with the 795 L (175 imp gal) ventral tank, and often two 455 L (100 imp gal) underwing tanks as well; endurance on internal fuel alone was poor, and that shaped how the aircraft was used from the first day to the last.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"spectable\">\n<h4>Performance<\/h4>\n<dl>\n<dt>Max speed<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>962 km\/h at sea level<\/strong> <span class=\"imp\">(598 mph \/ 520 kn) &mdash; and that is the honest number: the Meteor was fastest low down, falling to roughly 885 km\/h (550 mph) at 9,150 m (30,000 ft). The limiting Mach number was about 0.82, beyond which compressibility produced snaking and a nose-down trim change; the airframe was never transonic. The wartime F.1 managed about 670 km\/h (415 mph).<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Cruise speed<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>740 km\/h<\/strong> <span class=\"imp\">(400 kn \/ 460 mph) at around 9,000 m (30,000 ft) &mdash; indicative, since cruise figures depend heavily on stores, tanks and mark<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Rate of climb<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>35 m\/s<\/strong> <span class=\"imp\">(7,000 ft\/min) at sea level, clean &mdash; the F.8 was a genuinely spirited climber. The Welland-engined F.1 managed roughly 11 m\/s (2,150 ft\/min), which is the measure of how much the type gained in six years.<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Service ceiling<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>13,100 m<\/strong> <span class=\"imp\">(43,000 ft) &mdash; F.1 about 12,200 m (40,000 ft). Well short of the MiG-15, which is the whole story of the Korean air combat.<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Combat radius<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>~480 km<\/strong> <span class=\"imp\">(~260 nmi) on a ground-attack profile with the ventral tank; markedly less flown hard and low<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Ferry range<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>~1,610 km<\/strong> <span class=\"imp\">(~870 nmi) with ventral and underwing tanks &mdash; about 965 km (600 mi) on internal fuel and the ventral tank alone<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Takeoff run<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>730 m<\/strong> <span class=\"imp\">(2,400 ft) at sea level, ISA, clean &mdash; considerably more at operational weights, in heat or with a full external load<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Landing run<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>850 m<\/strong> <span class=\"imp\">(2,800 ft) &mdash; RAF Meteors had no brake parachute as standard, so the approach was flown with care and the type wanted a proper runway<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Load factor<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>+7.5 g<\/strong> <span class=\"imp\">(design limit; the practical limit fell away quickly with fuel, tanks and stores)<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"spectable wide\">\n<h4>Propulsion &amp; systems<\/h4>\n<dl>\n<dt>Engines<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>2 &times; Rolls-Royce Derwent 8<\/strong> <span class=\"imp\">turbojets &mdash; centrifugal-flow, no afterburner, slung in mid-wing nacelles. Worth correcting a common shorthand: not every Meteor had Derwents. The F.1 flew on the Rolls-Royce Welland, the F.3 on the Derwent I and later the Derwent 4 with lengthened nacelles, the F.4 on the Derwent 5; the Derwent 8 was the F.8 and NF standard.<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Thrust each<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>15.6 kN (3,500 lbf)<\/strong> <span class=\"imp\">dry &mdash; against 7.6 kN (1,700 lbf) for the Welland of the F.1, so the F.8 had roughly twice the thrust of the mark that fought in 1944<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Armament<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>Four 20 mm Hispano cannon<\/strong> <span class=\"imp\">in the nose, roughly 190 rounds per gun for the inner pair and 150 for the outer &mdash; a heavy, close-range battery grouped tightly on the centreline, which made it an excellent gun platform. Ground-attack marks added underwing rails and pylons for RP-3 rockets or bombs. The night fighters had to move the guns out into the wings, because the nose was full of radar.<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Ejection seat<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>Martin-Baker Mk.1E, F.8 onward<\/strong> <span class=\"imp\">&mdash; and this is a point worth stating plainly rather than glossing. The Meteor was not designed with an ejection seat: the F.1, F.3 and F.4 as built had none, and a pilot in trouble had to get out over the side of a jet doing 900 km\/h. Seats were fitted as standard from the F.8 and retrofitted to some earlier airframes. The T.7 trainer is the notorious exception &mdash; large numbers were flown with no ejection seats for either crew, on the aircraft used to teach the very manoeuvre that killed most Meteor pilots.<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Asymmetric handling<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>Treacherous, and it killed people<\/strong> <span class=\"imp\">&mdash; the defining flaw of the aircraft, and it deserves the space. With the engines set well outboard in the wing, losing one produced a powerful yawing and rolling moment that had to be caught at once with a bootful of rudder. Below a fairly high minimum control speed the rudder simply ran out of authority, and an attempted overshoot on one engine could roll the aircraft inverted into the ground with no height to recover. Because this had to be taught, it was practised &mdash; and practising it, usually in a T.7 with no ejection seats, is what did the damage. The RAF loss figures most often quoted are of the order of 890 Meteors written off in accidents and around 450 pilots killed, with 1952 the worst single year at roughly 150 airframes. Those totals are widely repeated rather than independently audited here, and they cover an enormous fleet flown intensively by low-hour pilots in an era of poor weather diversion and primitive approach aids, so the Meteor was not uniquely lethal among early jets. It was, however, genuinely unforgiving on one engine, and no honest account of the type leaves that out.<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>First flight<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>5 March 1943<\/strong> <span class=\"imp\">&mdash; prototype DG206 at Cranwell, flown by Michael Daunt, and on de Havilland Halford H.1 engines rather than Whittle&#8217;s, because the intended W.2B units were running late. The first Whittle-powered prototype followed that June.<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Service entry<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>July 1944<\/strong> <span class=\"imp\">&mdash; No. 616 Squadron RAF took its first F.1s on 12 July 1944 and flew the type&#8217;s first operational sortie on 27 July, making the Meteor the only Allied jet to reach operational service in the Second World War<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Built<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>~3,900<\/strong> <span class=\"imp\">&mdash; a total of about 3,947 is the figure usually quoted, spread across roughly a dozen marks and including licence assembly by Fokker and Avions Fairey in the Netherlands and Belgium. Counts differ depending on how prototypes, rebuilds and drone conversions are treated.<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Unit cost<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>~GBP 25,000&ndash;30,000<\/strong> <span class=\"imp\">(around 1950) &mdash; hedged on purpose, and to be treated as indicative only. Wartime and early post-war British aircraft accounting mixes airframe-only, engine-separate and programme costs, contemporary figures are scattered across sources of uneven quality, and export contracts were priced for political as much as commercial reasons. Any single confident number for &quot;the cost of a Meteor&quot; should be distrusted.<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Cost per flight hour<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>~USD 10,000&ndash;20,000<\/strong> <span class=\"imp\">&mdash; hedged wide, and it has to be. Unlike types with a healthy warbird fleet, only a very small number of Meteors fly anywhere in the world, so there is no market of operators to average. Two thirsty centrifugal turbojets burn on the order of 2,000&ndash;2,500 L an hour at low level; on top of that sit engine and airframe reserves against parts that are effectively unobtainable and must be made, insurance priced for a rare twin-jet, and the fixed cost of a support organisation spread over very few hours. Anyone quoting a tidy figure for Meteor operating costs is estimating, and so is this.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"deepset\">\n<details class=\"deep\">\n<summary><span class=\"no\">04<\/span><span class=\"t\">Why the Gloster Meteor\u2019s specs and cost vary between sources<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p>The Meteor was built in many marks over more than a decade, so a single \u201cspec sheet\u201d is always a simplification \u2014 figures here are for the definitive <strong>F.8 day fighter<\/strong>. Even then sources disagree: quoted top speed ranges from about <strong>941 to 965 km\/h<\/strong>, and weights from a ~6,600 kg loaded figure to a maximum near 8,660 kg. As a 1940s\u201350s British government product produced in the thousands and widely exported, the Meteor has <strong>no reliable open-market unit price or cost-per-flight-hour<\/strong>; any precise dollar figure you see is an estimate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kicker\">Armament &amp; payload<\/p>\n<h2>Meteor firepower: four nose cannon that barely changed in fifteen years<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">The Meteor was armed like the piston fighters it replaced: four 20 mm Hispano cannon packed into the nose, aimed by eye, effective at close range. That battery destroyed V-1 flying bombs over Kent in 1944 and shot at MiG-15s over Korea nine years later without changing in any fundamental way. What did change was everything hung underneath and everything stuffed into the nose &mdash; rockets and bombs for ground attack, radar for the night fighters, cameras for the reconnaissance marks &mdash; and it is those adaptations, rather than the gun, that kept the aircraft in service for a decade and a half.<\/p>\n<div class=\"armgrid\">\n<div class=\"armcard\">\n<h4>Cannon<\/h4>\n<p>Four 20 mm Hispano cannon in the nose, the standard British heavy fighter battery of the day, with roughly 190 rounds a gun inboard and 150 outboard. Grouping them on the centreline meant no convergence problem and no wing flexure to spoil the aim, and pilots rated the Meteor an unusually steady gun platform. It was a short-range, hard-hitting fit: enough to break a V-1 or a locomotive, and enough to shoot down a MiG-15 on the rare occasions a Meteor got into position to try. The night fighters could not keep it there, and moved all four guns out into the wings to make room for radar.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"armcard\">\n<h4>Rockets &amp; bombs<\/h4>\n<p>The ground-attack marks carried RP-3 rocket projectiles with 60 lb heads on underwing rails, typically sixteen of them, ripple-fired in a shallow dive; alternatively two 1,000 lb bombs on the inboard pylons. This was the fit that mattered most in practice. It armed 616 Squadron&#8217;s armed reconnaissance sorties over the continent in the spring of 1945, and it was what No. 77 Squadron RAAF used in Korea from 1952 once the F.8 had been taken off air-superiority work. Accuracy came from the pilot, the gunsight and practice; there was no bombing computer to speak of.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"armcard\">\n<h4>Night fighter fits<\/h4>\n<p>The Armstrong Whitworth night fighters were a substantially different aeroplane. The NF.11 put an AI radar in a lengthened nose, restored the long-span wing to carry the weight, added a second crewman in tandem, and pushed the four cannon out into the wings. The NF.12 took an American APS-21 set and a longer nose again with a taller fin to balance it; the NF.13 was the tropicalised version for the Middle East; the NF.14 added a clear-view bubble canopy and the longest nose of the family. They gave the RAF a workable all-weather force through the 1950s until Javelins replaced them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"armcard\">\n<h4>Reconnaissance fits<\/h4>\n<p>Two distinct marks, for two different jobs. The FR.9 was a low-level fighter-reconnaissance F.8 with cameras in a modified nose and the full cannon battery retained, so it could fight on the way out; it flew hard and low over Malaya, Aden and East Africa. The PR.10 was the opposite: a high-altitude photographic aircraft with the long-span wing and the older tail put back for height and endurance, cameras in the nose and rear fuselage, and the guns deleted entirely. It relied on altitude alone, which worked until it did not.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"armcard\">\n<h4>Trainer &amp; target-tug fits<\/h4>\n<p>The T.7 was the tandem two-seat trainer and one of the most-produced marks, exported widely and used by the Royal Navy as well as the RAF; it converted a generation of pilots onto jets. Its serious defect was the lack of ejection seats in large numbers of airframes. Alongside it, the Meteor became one of the great target-towing aircraft: surplus F.8 and TT.20 conversions dragged sleeve and winged targets for gunnery ranges into the 1970s, work that kept airframes flying long after the fighters had gone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"armcard\">\n<h4>Research &amp; special use<\/h4>\n<p>The Meteor&#8217;s third career was as a flying laboratory, and it is arguably where the type earned its place in history. EE227 became the Trent-Meteor and flew on 20 September 1945 as the world&#8217;s first turboprop-powered aircraft. Meteor F.3 EE416 carried Bernard Lynch on the first live ejection from a British aircraft on 24 July 1946, and Martin-Baker went on to operate Meteors as seat testbeds for decades. F.8 WK935 was rebuilt with an extended nose containing a prone pilot position, to test whether lying down raised g tolerance; it flew in 1954 and survives at Cosford. Others served as engine and rocket-motor testbeds, and roughly a hundred F.8s ended as U.16 radio-controlled target drones.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"loadouts\">\n<h4>Three typical Meteor fits<\/h4>\n<dl>\n<dt>Day fighter &mdash; RAF F.8, early 1950s<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\">Four 20 mm Hispano cannon with a full ammunition load and the 795 L (175 imp gal) ventral tank, wing pylons empty. This was the standard Fighter Command interceptor fit for most of the type&#8217;s front-line life: no radar, no missiles, flown visually under ground control. Clean and light, it was a fine-handling aircraft, and its limits were altitude and Mach number rather than agility.<\/dd>\n<dt>Ground attack &mdash; F.8, No. 77 Squadron RAAF, Korea 1952&ndash;53<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\">Guns loaded, ventral tank fitted, and sixteen 60 lb RP-3 rockets on underwing rails, or two 1,000 lb bombs in place of them. This is the load the Meteor flew after it had been withdrawn from air-superiority work against the MiG-15, and in it the squadron did a great deal of useful and dangerous low-level work, mostly against ground fire rather than fighters.<\/dd>\n<dt>Night fighter &mdash; NF.11, RAF, mid-1950s<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\">AI radar in the lengthened nose, a navigator\/radar operator in the back seat, four 20 mm cannon relocated to the wings, long-span wing and the ventral tank for endurance on a long patrol. Slower and heavier than the day fighter and quite unlike it to fly, but it gave Britain a real all-weather capability through the first half of the 1950s.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"spx-note\">Fits varied so much between marks that generalising about &quot;the Meteor&quot; is close to meaningless. An F.1 in 1944 carried guns and nothing else and was forbidden to cross the enemy coast; an FR.9 carried cameras and guns; a PR.10 carried no guns at all; an NF.14 carried radar, two crew and wing-mounted cannon. <span class=\"imp\">Where a specific weapon or fit is named here, it belongs to a particular mark in a particular air force at a particular time, not to the type as a whole.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kicker\">Variants<\/p>\n<h2>Meteor variants: from a wartime curiosity to Britain&#8217;s jet workhorse<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">The Meteor holds a genuine distinction: it was the only Allied jet aircraft to reach operational service in the Second World War, with No. 616 Squadron RAF from July 1944. What it actually did with that head start is more modest than the legend, and worth stating precisely. Its real wartime success was against the V-1 flying bomb over southern England, where speed at low level was exactly the quality required and the squadron destroyed around fourteen of them from August 1944 &mdash; the first, on 4 August, famously tipped over by Flying Officer Dean after his cannon jammed. From early 1945 Meteors moved to the continent and flew armed reconnaissance and ground-attack sorties, painted white in part so that Allied gunners and fighter pilots would not mistake them for Me 262s. And that points to the correction this aircraft most needs: <strong>the Meteor never met the Me 262 in combat<\/strong>. The two were operational at the same time and are endlessly paired in popular accounts, but no engagement between them ever took place. Early Meteors were deliberately kept away from enemy territory to stop the technology falling into German hands, and by the time they were released the Luftwaffe jet force was largely grounded by fuel shortage and airfield attack. The Meteor claimed no air-to-air victory over a manned aircraft in the Second World War at all. Afterwards it did rather better: it took the world air speed record twice in 1945 and 1946, at 606 and then 616 mph, became the RAF&#8217;s standard day fighter, and was exported very widely &mdash; Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, France, Australia, Brazil, Argentina, Egypt, Israel, Syria and others, with licence assembly by Fokker and Avions Fairey. Its one substantial jet war was Korea, where No. 77 Squadron RAAF traded Mustangs for F.8s in 1951 and found the aircraft comprehensively outclassed by the MiG-15: slower, lower-ceilinged and unable to fight in the vertical. After heavy losses in air combat during 1951 the squadron was moved to ground attack in 1952, where it did valuable work at high cost, losing something on the order of fifty aircraft over the war, most of them to ground fire. The other half of the honest account is the peacetime one: the Meteor had a poor safety record, with figures of the order of 890 airframes lost in RAF accidents and around 450 pilots killed, a great many of them in the asymmetric engine-out training that the aircraft&#8217;s engine placement made both necessary and dangerous.<\/p>\n<dl class=\"varlist\">\n<dt>F.1<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\">Twenty built, Welland-engined, delivered to No. 616 Squadron from July 1944. The mark that made the Meteor the only Allied jet in operational service in the war, and the one that shot down V-1s. One was traded to the USAAF in exchange for a YP-59A.<\/dd>\n<dt>F.3<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\">About 210 built, and the first mark in quantity. Derwent I engines, later Derwent 4 with lengthened nacelles that cured much of the high-speed snaking, and a sliding canopy in place of the sideways-hinged hood. Went to the continent in January 1945 and flew ground-attack and armed reconnaissance sorties in the closing months.<\/dd>\n<dt>F.4<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\">Roughly 650 built including exports, from 1946. Derwent 5, strengthened airframe and the clipped wing that traded climb for roll rate. This is the mark that took the world air speed record in 1945 and 1946, and the first the RAF exported in numbers &mdash; to Argentina, Belgium, Denmark, Egypt and the Netherlands.<\/dd>\n<dt>T.7<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\">Around 650 built, the tandem two-seat trainer, in RAF, Royal Navy and export service and by some way the most widely used jet trainer in Britain in its day. Unarmed or lightly armed, no radar &mdash; and, in large numbers of airframes, no ejection seats, which is a serious mark against it given what it was used to teach.<\/dd>\n<dt>F.8<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\">The definitive mark and the most-produced: roughly 1,180 built, including some 330 assembled under licence by Fokker and Avions Fairey. Stretched fuselage for more fuel, Derwent 8s, a new squared-off tail that fixed the earlier marks&#8217; handling at speed, and a Martin-Baker ejection seat as standard. RAF day fighter backbone from 1950 until Hunters and Swifts replaced it, and the mark the RAAF flew in Korea.<\/dd>\n<dt>FR.9<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\">About 126 built. A low-level fighter-reconnaissance F.8 with cameras in a modified nose and all four cannon retained. Flew tactical reconnaissance over Malaya, Aden and East Africa, and served with several export operators.<\/dd>\n<dt>PR.10<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\">About 59 built. The high-altitude photographic mark: long-span wing and the older F.4 tail restored for height and endurance, cameras in the nose and rear fuselage, guns removed entirely. Unarmed and dependent on altitude, it was obsolete quickly but useful while it lasted.<\/dd>\n<dt>NF.11 to NF.14<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\">The Armstrong Whitworth night fighter family, roughly 580 aircraft in all: about 340 NF.11 with AI radar in a lengthened nose, long-span wing, two crew and wing-mounted cannon; around 100 NF.12 with American APS-21 radar and a taller fin; about 40 tropicalised NF.13 for the Middle East, exported to Egypt, Israel, Syria and France; and roughly 100 NF.14 with a clear-view bubble canopy and the longest nose of the line. They carried RAF all-weather defence through the 1950s.<\/dd>\n<dt>U.15 and U.16 drones<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"text-align:left\">Radio-controlled target conversions that gave the airframe a long afterlife: roughly 90 U.15 from surplus F.4s and about 100 U.16 from F.8s, later redesignated D.16, plus Australian conversions. Flown from Llanbedr on missile trials, they were still being expended into the 2000s &mdash; Meteors shot down by weapons that did not exist when they were built.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p class=\"spx-note\">The Meteor left front-line RAF fighter service in the mid-1950s, but hung on for years in second-line roles &mdash; target towing, drone work and trials flying &mdash; and rather longer abroad, with Israel, Egypt, Brazil and Ecuador among the later operators. <span class=\"imp\">Today only a very small number remain airworthy, notably examples operated in Britain, against many dozens of static survivors in museums and on gate guardian plinths worldwide. The single most remarkable survivor story is Martin-Baker&#8217;s: the company operated Meteor T.7s at Chalgrove as ejection-seat testbeds for well over half a century, flying them into the 2010s, which makes them among the longest-serving airframes of the type ever flown and a fitting end for the aircraft from which the first live British ejection was made in 1946. Airworthy numbers change year to year with maintenance, funding and accidents, so treat any precise count with caution.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Timeline<\/div>\n<h2>From secret jet to living legend<\/h2>\n<div class=\"tl\">\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1940<\/div>\n<h3>The order<\/h3>\n<p>The Air Ministry orders prototypes from Gloster to Specification F.9\/40, built around Whittle\u2019s turbojet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1943<\/div>\n<h3>First flight<\/h3>\n<p>Prototype DG206 makes the Meteor\u2019s maiden flight on 5 March, at Cranwell.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1944<\/div>\n<h3>Into service<\/h3>\n<p>No. 616 Squadron takes delivery in July \u2014 the only Allied jet to enter combat in WWII.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1944<\/div>\n<h3>First V-1 kill<\/h3>\n<p>On 4 August a Meteor downs a V-1 flying bomb, famously tipping it over after its cannon jammed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1945<\/div>\n<h3>Over Europe<\/h3>\n<p>Meteors deploy to the Continent with the 2nd Tactical Air Force, flying ground attack and armed recon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1945<\/div>\n<h3>First speed record<\/h3>\n<p>On 7 November, Gp Capt H. J. Wilson sets a world air-speed record of 606 mph \u2014 the first over 600 mph.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1946<\/div>\n<h3>616 mph<\/h3>\n<p>On 7 September, Gp Capt Teddy Donaldson pushes the record to about 616 mph off the Sussex coast.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1949<\/div>\n<h3>The definitive F.8<\/h3>\n<p>The F.8 day fighter enters service and becomes the backbone of RAF Fighter Command in the early 1950s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1951<\/div>\n<h3>Korea<\/h3>\n<p>RAAF No. 77 Squadron takes the Meteor F.8 to war; outclassed by the MiG-15, it shifts to ground attack.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1958\u2013now<\/div>\n<h3>Still firing<\/h3>\n<p>Martin-Baker flies Meteors as ejection-seat testbeds \u2014 and two are still airworthy in 2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Stories &amp; Eyewitnesses<\/div>\n<h2>Twelve Gloster Meteor stories<\/h2>\n<div class=\"car\"><button class=\"cbtn p\" onclick=\"document.getElementById('stcar').scrollBy({left:-712,behavior:'smooth'})\">\u2039<\/button><button class=\"cbtn n\" onclick=\"document.getElementById('stcar').scrollBy({left:712,behavior:'smooth'})\">\u203a<\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"track\" id=\"stcar\">\n<div class=\"mscard\">\n<div class=\"tag\">Engineering<\/div>\n<h4>Whittle\u2019s jet goes to war<\/h4>\n<p>The Meteor turned Frank Whittle\u2019s turbojet from an experiment into a fighting aircraft.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full story<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">Frank Whittle spent the 1930s fighting for backing for his centrifugal-flow turbojet. By 1943 the Gloster Meteor turned that idea into a flyable fighter, and in July 1944 it entered RAF service \u2014 the first, and only, Allied jet to reach operational combat in the Second World War. The engine that a sceptical establishment had almost ignored now powered a front-line squadron.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\">\n<div class=\"tag\">V-1 campaign \u00b7 1944<\/div>\n<h4>Tipping the doodlebug<\/h4>\n<p>With his cannon jammed, a Meteor pilot toppled a V-1 with his wingtip.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full story<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">On 4 August 1944, Flying Officer \u201cDixie\u201d Dean of No. 616 Squadron caught a V-1 flying bomb over southern England \u2014 and his 20 mm cannon jammed. Rather than break off, he flew alongside, slid his wingtip beneath the bomb\u2019s wing and rolled it. The disturbed airflow toppled the V-1\u2019s gyro and sent it spinning into the ground. It became the Meteor\u2019s first kill and one of the most extraordinary victories of the jet age.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\">\n<div class=\"tag\">Strategy \u00b7 1944<\/div>\n<h4>The jet they kept on a leash<\/h4>\n<p>Meteors were held back from the Continent so no German could capture one.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full story<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">For months the Meteor fought only over England, hunting flying bombs. Allied commanders were terrified that a jet \u2014 and above all its Whittle-derived engine \u2014 might be shot down or force-land in occupied Europe and hand the secret to Germany. Only in early 1945, with the outcome of the war no longer in doubt, were Meteors allowed across the Channel, and even then their orders steered them away from air combat with the Luftwaffe.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\">\n<div class=\"tag\">Records \u00b7 1945<\/div>\n<h4>First past 600 mph<\/h4>\n<p>A Meteor became the first aircraft to hold a world speed record above 600 mph.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full story<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">On 7 November 1945, Group Captain H. J. Wilson flew a Meteor F.4 to 606 mph over the water \u2014 the first world air-speed record set by a jet and the first ever above 600 mph. The record had belonged to piston fighters; now it belonged to the turbojet, and to Britain.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\">\n<div class=\"tag\">Records \u00b7 1946<\/div>\n<h4>Donaldson\u2019s 616<\/h4>\n<p>A year later a Meteor pushed the world record to about 616 mph.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full story<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">On 7 September 1946, Group Captain Edward \u201cTeddy\u201d Donaldson streaked along a measured course off Rustington on the Sussex coast in a Meteor F.4 and raised the world air-speed record to roughly 616 mph. It cemented the Meteor\u2019s place at the leading edge of early jet performance \u2014 if only briefly, before swept-wing rivals surged ahead.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\">\n<div class=\"tag\">Korea \u00b7 1951<\/div>\n<h4>Meteor versus MiG<\/h4>\n<p>Over Korea the straight-winged Meteor met the swept-wing MiG-15 \u2014 and came off worse.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full story<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">In 1951 the Royal Australian Air Force\u2019s No. 77 Squadron took its Meteor F.8s into the Korean War as interceptors. Against the swept-wing MiG-15 the Meteor was outmatched \u2014 slower, out-climbed and outfought at altitude. After hard losses, most famously on 1 December 1951 near Sunchon, the Meteor was largely withdrawn from air-to-air work and turned loose on ground targets, a role in which it excelled.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\">\n<div class=\"tag\">Korea<\/div>\n<h4>The ground-attack Meteor<\/h4>\n<p>Recast as a fighter-bomber, the Meteor found a role it could dominate.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full story<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">Pulled from the interceptor mission, 77 Squadron\u2019s Meteors spent the rest of the war attacking bridges, supply lines and troop concentrations with cannon and rockets. Over the campaign the squadron flew many thousands of sorties. The Meteor could not beat the MiG in a turning fight, but as a rugged, heavily armed ground-attack machine it proved its worth \u2014 a reminder that an aircraft outclassed in one role can still be lethal in another.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\">\n<div class=\"tag\">Night-fighter<\/div>\n<h4>Eyes in the dark<\/h4>\n<p>Radar-equipped Meteor night-fighters guarded Britain and its allies into the jet age.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full story<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">As bombers grew faster, Britain needed jet night-fighters. The two-seat, radar-nosed Meteor NF.11 through NF.14, built by Armstrong Whitworth, filled the gap through the 1950s. France flew the NF.11 too. Longer, heavier and packed with a radar operator and his equipment, these Meteors were a very different aircraft from the sleek day fighter \u2014 a stopgap that served until purpose-built night-fighters arrived.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\">\n<div class=\"tag\">Export<\/div>\n<h4>The Meteor goes global<\/h4>\n<p>From Argentina to Israel, the Meteor armed a dozen air forces after the war.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full story<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">The Meteor became one of the first widely exported jet fighters. Belgium and the Netherlands built it under licence; Argentina bought a hundred F.4s and used them in the 1955 revolution; Egypt, Israel and Syria flew Meteors as their first jets, sometimes against one another; Denmark, Brazil, Ecuador and France operated it too. For many nations the Meteor was the aircraft that carried them into the jet era.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\">\n<div class=\"tag\">Experiment<\/div>\n<h4>The prone-pilot Meteor<\/h4>\n<p>One Meteor was rebuilt so its pilot flew lying face-down in the nose.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full story<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">To study how pilots might endure high g-forces, a Meteor F.8 known as WK935 was modified with a second, prone cockpit grafted onto the nose, where a pilot lay flat on his stomach to fly. The idea was that a horizontal pilot could better resist blackout in violent manoeuvres. It flew, but the discomfort and complexity outweighed the benefits, and the concept was abandoned \u2014 leaving one of the strangest-looking Meteors ever built.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\">\n<div class=\"tag\">Legacy<\/div>\n<h4>Still firing seats<\/h4>\n<p>A pair of Meteors are still flying today \u2014 as ejection-seat test aircraft.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full story<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">Martin-Baker, the ejection-seat maker, operates two elderly two-seat Meteors (WA638 and WL419) as flying testbeds. From these aircraft they fire live ejection seats to prove new designs, including seats fitted to modern fighters. Kept immaculately airworthy for decades, they are among the oldest jets still flying anywhere in the world \u2014 the Meteor\u2019s war long over, its working life somehow still going.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\">\n<div class=\"tag\">The name<\/div>\n<h4>\u201cMeatbox\u201d<\/h4>\n<p>Crews gave the Meteor a grimly affectionate nickname.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full story<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">Early jets were unforgiving, and the twin-engine Meteor was especially dangerous if an engine failed on take-off: the asymmetric thrust could flip an unwary pilot into the ground. Training losses were heavy, and RAF crews gave the aircraft the black-humoured nickname \u201cMeatbox.\u201d It was affection laced with respect for a jet that demanded to be flown properly \u2014 and punished those who did not.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Gallery<\/div>\n<h2>The Meteor in pictures<\/h2>\n<div class=\"car\"><button class=\"cbtn p\" onclick=\"document.getElementById('gal').scrollBy({left:-660,behavior:'smooth'})\">\u2039<\/button><button class=\"cbtn n\" onclick=\"document.getElementById('gal').scrollBy({left:660,behavior:'smooth'})\">\u203a<\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"track gal\" id=\"gal\">\n<figure data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1280\/h:851\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/gloster-meteor-wa638-inflight.jpg\"><img data-opt-id=196255465  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:980\/h:652\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/gloster-meteor-wa638-inflight.jpg\"  class=\"ph\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20980%20652%22%20width%3D%22980%22%20height%3D%22652%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22980%22%20height%3D%22652%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"A Martin-Baker Meteor in flight  among the oldest jets still flying, and still used to test ejection seats.\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><figcaption>A Martin-Baker Meteor in flight \u2014 among the oldest jets still flying, and still used to test ejection seats.<span>Photo: Adrian Pingstone \u00b7 Public domain<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1280\/h:854\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/gloster-meteor-f8-wh453.jpg\"><img data-opt-id=606583044  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:980\/h:653\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/gloster-meteor-f8-wh453.jpg\"  class=\"ph\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20980%20653%22%20width%3D%22980%22%20height%3D%22653%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22980%22%20height%3D%22653%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"A preserved Gloster Meteor F.8  the definitive straight-wing day fighter.\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><figcaption>A preserved Gloster Meteor F.8 \u2014 the definitive straight-wing day fighter.<span>Photo: Alan Wilson \u00b7 CC BY-SA 2.0<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1280\/h:775\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/gloster-meteor-korea-77sqn-raaf.jpg\"><img data-opt-id=155240179  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:980\/h:593\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/gloster-meteor-korea-77sqn-raaf.jpg\"  class=\"ph\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20980%20593%22%20width%3D%22980%22%20height%3D%22593%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22980%22%20height%3D%22593%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"An RAAF No. 77 Squadron Meteor F.8 in Korea  outclassed by the MiG-15, it became a ground-attack workhorse.\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><figcaption>An RAAF No. 77 Squadron Meteor F.8 in Korea \u2014 outclassed by the MiG-15, it became a ground-attack workhorse.<span>Photo: USAF \u00b7 Public domain<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1280\/h:960\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/gloster-meteor-nf11-night-fighter.jpg\"><img data-opt-id=431479354  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:980\/h:735\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/gloster-meteor-nf11-night-fighter.jpg\"  class=\"ph\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20980%20735%22%20width%3D%22980%22%20height%3D%22735%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22980%22%20height%3D%22735%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"A radar-nosed Meteor NF.11 night-fighter, the type that guarded Britain into the jet age.\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><figcaption>A radar-nosed Meteor NF.11 night-fighter, the type that guarded Britain into the jet age.<span>Photo: Andrew Bone \u00b7 CC BY 2.0<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/gloster-meteor-f8-cockpit.jpg\"><img data-opt-id=2015413835  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\/gloster-meteor-f8-cockpit.jpg\"  class=\"ph\" 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=\"Inside the Meteor F.8 cockpit  simple analogue instruments of the first jet generation.\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><figcaption>Inside the Meteor F.8 cockpit \u2014 simple analogue instruments of the first jet generation.<span>Photo: Roland Turner \u00b7 CC BY-SA 2.0<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1280\/h:854\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/gloster-meteor-prone-pilot-wk935.jpg\"><img data-opt-id=63308948  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:980\/h:653\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/gloster-meteor-prone-pilot-wk935.jpg\"  class=\"ph\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20980%20653%22%20width%3D%22980%22%20height%3D%22653%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22980%22%20height%3D%22653%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"The extraordinary prone pilot Meteor WK935, flown from a cockpit where the pilot lay face-down.\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><figcaption>The extraordinary \u201cprone pilot\u201d Meteor WK935, flown from a cockpit where the pilot lay face-down.<span>Photo: Hugh Llewelyn \u00b7 CC BY-SA 2.0<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Watch<\/div>\n<h2>The Meteor in motion<\/h2>\n<p>A hand-picked Gloster Meteor documentary is on the way. <em>Video coming soon.<\/em> In the meantime, explore the stories, gallery and specifications above.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Watch<\/div>\n<h2>The Meteor in motion<\/h2>\n<div class=\"vidwrap\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/g3myjh7bMPY\" title=\"Gloster Meteor documentary \u2014 Imperial War Museums\" loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Imperial War Museums \u2014 one of the most-watched Meteor films on YouTube.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div 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It never fought the Luftwaffe in the air, and against the MiG-15 over Korea it was outclassed as a dogfighter. Its lasting achievements lie elsewhere \u2014 in being first, in downing flying bombs, in speed records, and in a ground-attack war it fought hard. Air-to-air claims below are best read as claims, and Korean combat figures are contested.<\/p>\n<div class=\"combat\">\n<div class=\"cstat\"><b>~13<\/b><span>V-1 flying bombs claimed by No. 616 Sqn, 1944<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"cstat\"><b>616 mph<\/b><span>World air-speed record \u2014 1946<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"cstat\"><b>Only one<\/b><span>Allied jet to see WWII combat<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Compare the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/fighter-jet-combat-statistics\/\">combat record of every military aircraft<\/a>. Figures as of July 2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"faq\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Questions &amp; Answers<\/div>\n<h2>Everything people ask about the Gloster Meteor<\/h2>\n<div class=\"qa\">\n<details open=\"\">\n<summary>Can I fly in a Gloster Meteor?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">No \u2014 there are no public Gloster Meteor rides. A handful of Meteors still fly as warbirds and ejection-seat testbeds, but none carry paying passengers. You <b>can<\/b>, however, fly in several genuine ex-military jets today \u2014 see <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/\">migflug.com\/flights-prices\/<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Why is the Gloster Meteor historically important?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">It was Britain\u2019s first jet fighter and the only Allied jet aircraft to see combat in the Second World War, entering RAF service in July 1944. It proved the turbojet fighter in operational service.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Did the Meteor ever fight the German Me 262?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">No. Although both were operational in 1944\u201345, a Meteor and an Me 262 never met in air combat. Meteors were deliberately kept from the Continent early on so one could not be captured, and the opportunity never arose.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>How did a Meteor tip V-1 flying bombs?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">When a fighter\u2019s cannon jammed, pilots could fly alongside a V-1, slip a wingtip just under the bomb\u2019s wing and roll it. The disturbed airflow toppled the V-1\u2019s gyroscope, sending it out of control. A Meteor scored its first V-1 kill this way on 4 August 1944.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>How fast was the Gloster Meteor?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">The F.8 day fighter reached roughly 950\u2013965 km\/h (about 600 mph). A specially prepared Meteor set the world air-speed record twice: 606 mph in 1945 and about 616 mph in 1946.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>How did the Meteor do against the MiG-15 in Korea?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Poorly in air combat. The straight-winged Meteor F.8 flown by RAAF No. 77 Squadron was outclassed by the swept-wing MiG-15 and, after heavy losses in 1951, was switched mainly to ground attack. Exact kill and loss figures are contested.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Are any Gloster Meteors still flying?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Yes. Martin-Baker keeps two two-seat Meteors airworthy as ejection-seat test aircraft, and a small number fly as warbirds. They are among the oldest jets still flying in the world.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Why was the Meteor nicknamed the \u201cMeatbox\u201d?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">The twin-engine Meteor was dangerous if an engine failed on take-off, and training losses were heavy. RAF crews gave it the grimly affectionate nickname \u201cMeatbox.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"ad\">\n<div class=\"adin\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">The part of the collection you can touch<\/div>\n<h2>You can\u2019t fly the Gloster Meteor.<br \/>These, you can.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"adp\">Some legends only live in museums \u2014 others are fuelled and waiting. 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alt=\"Lockheed F-104 Starfighter side profile\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><b>Fly the F-104 Starfighter<\/b><span>\u201cThe missile with a man in it\u201d<\/span><\/a><a class=\"flycard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/mig-21-launch\/\"><span class=\"fico\"><img data-opt-id=791639987  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alt=\"Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 side profile\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><b>Fly the MiG-21<\/b><span>The Cold War\u2019s most-produced jet<\/span><\/a><a class=\"flycard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/t-33-in-canada\/\"><span class=\"fico\"><img data-opt-id=791639987  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alt=\"Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star side profile\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><b>Fly the T-33 Shooting Star<\/b><span>America\u2019s first jet trainer<\/span><\/a><a class=\"flycard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/vampire-flight-near-london\/\"><span class=\"fico\"><img data-opt-id=791639987  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alt=\"de Havilland Vampire side profile\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><b>Fly the DH Vampire<\/b><span>A piece of early jet history<\/span><\/a><a class=\"flycard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/s-211-jet-flight-munich\/\"><span class=\"fico\"><img data-opt-id=791639987  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alt=\"SIAI-Marchetti S.211 side profile\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><b>Fly the S.211<\/b><span>Agile Italian jet trainer<\/span><\/a><a class=\"flycard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/l-39-mb-326-jet-provost-in-italy\/\"><span class=\"fico\"><img data-opt-id=791639987  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alt=\"Aermacchi MB-326 side profile\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><b>Fly the MB-326<\/b><span>The classic Aermacchi jet<\/span><\/a><a class=\"flycard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/mig-15-fagot-czech-republic\/\"><span class=\"fico\"><img data-opt-id=791639987  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alt=\"Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 side profile\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><b>Fly the MiG-15<\/b><span>The Soviet legend of the Korean War<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"btn\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/\">See all flights &amp; prices<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section style=\"padding-top:44px\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Related Aircraft<\/div>\n<h2>Continue the tour<\/h2>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/de-havilland-vampire\/\"><span class=\"rk\">The Contemporary<\/span><span class=\"rh\">de Havilland Vampire<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Britain\u2019s second jet fighter \u2014 single-engine where the Meteor had two, and the jet many pilots stepped to next.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Read the Vampire story<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f-86-sabre\/\"><span class=\"rk\">The Swept-Wing Answer<\/span><span class=\"rh\">F-86 Sabre<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The swept-wing Western fighter sent to duel the MiG-15 over Korea \u2014 the jet the straight-wing Meteor could not be.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Read the Sabre story<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mig-15-fagot\/\"><span class=\"rk\">The Nemesis<\/span><span class=\"rh\">MiG-15 Fagot<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The swept-wing Soviet fighter that outclassed the Meteor over Korea and forced it out of the air-superiority role.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Read the MiG-15 story<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section style=\"padding:48px 0 64px\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Sources &amp; Further Reading<\/div>\n<h2>Every fact, checked<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"srclist\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rafmuseum.org.uk\/research\/collections\/gloster-meteor-f8\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RAF Museum \u2014 Gloster Meteor F.8<\/a><span>F.8 development, WWII \u201conly Allied jet,\u201d RAF and RAAF service, and target-tug conversion.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwm.org.uk\/collections\/item\/object\/205455661\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Imperial War Museums<\/a><span>The 7 November 1945 world air-speed record (Wilson, 606 mph).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisdayinaviation.com\/tag\/gloster-meteor-f-mk-iv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This Day in Aviation<\/a><span>Both FAI speed records, with aircraft serials and km\/h figures.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tangmere-museum.org.uk\/gloster-meteor-f4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tangmere Military Aviation Museum<\/a><span>The 7 September 1946 Donaldson record (EE549, 615.78 mph).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.awm.gov.au\/wartime\/86\/article-five\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Australian War Memorial<\/a><span>No. 77 Squadron in Korea, the MiG-15 comparison, and Meteor losses.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforce.gov.au\/community\/event-participation\/air-force-heritage-aircraft-fleet\/gloster-meteor-f8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Royal Australian Air Force<\/a><span>Meteor F.8 dimensions, weights, engines and performance figures.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.corgi.co.uk\/community\/blog-and-news\/aerodrome\/martin-bakers-historic-meteor-jets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Martin-Baker\u2019s historic Meteor jets<\/a><span>WA638 and WL419 ejection-seat testbeds, firing counts, and still flying.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.historyofwar.org\/articles\/weapons_gloster_meteor_overseas.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">History of War \u2014 Overseas Operators<\/a><span>Full export-operator list, variants and numbers for the country map.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div id=\"galfix71\" 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