the Gloster Gladiator, less than a decade earlier! Moreover, the same year that the Meteor began development, the Royal Navy employed its open cockpit Fairey Swordfish to great success in the raid ...

All 3,300 Hawker Typhoons or "Tiffies" were built at the Gloster Aircraft Company's Hucclecote factory but now only one complete example exists. The cockpit was found in Chippenham in 1996 and it ...