Flight Deck | Gloster Meteor F.8!

In this months episode of Flight Deck we take a look at the new tooled Gloster Meteor F.8. We also take a look at two great vintage classic kits. The de Havilland Beaver and the Westland Whirlwind Helicopter and we take a look at the three brand new starter set cars.

Britain's first jet fighter was still quite a primitive design and the reason it proceeded as a twin engined aircraft was down to the fact that these early jet were not overly powerful and rather slow to respond to the pilot's power input requests, so the use of two engines seemed practical. The view from the cockpit was however superb, with no propeller to obscure the pilots view and plenty of power available once the aircraft was up to speed.

Slightly longer than its predecessors, the F.8 featured uprated engines, greater fuel capacity and the inclusion of an ejector seat. To counter some instability issues discovered during development, the new aircraft also featured a redesigned tail unit, something which really serves to identify this later mark of Meteor.

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