It actually made its operational debut at almost the same time as the Me-262, yet has never gotten as much notoriety. One reason is due to the fact that while the German-made fighter saw action ...

Britain last week showed off a delta-wing plane, the Gloster Javelin, which its builder thinks is the fastest, longest-range, all-weather day & night fighter ever built. Nobody needed to guess who the ...

Britain’s aviation industry last week was taking one of its heaviest shellackings since the Battle of Britain. The walloping came from a wartime R.A.F. squadron leader named William A. Waterton, who ...

The work to make this aircraft a reality was described as "probably the most important invention this century".On April 8, 1941, a top-secret event, which was to revolutionise world aviation, took ...

Sleek, daring, and breathtaking, British racing aircraft of the 1920s and 1930s combined ravishing beauty with tremendous performance. From the elegant Supermarine S4 to the record-breaking Gloster VI ...

This story was submitted to the People's War site by the BBC Learning Centre on behalf of Jim Wyatt. I lived in the Forest of Dean in my early days and went to the school which is now Dean Magna. When ...

JIM COOKSEY, who has died aged 88, broke the world air-speed record for the 1,000 kilometre closed circuit while working as a test pilot for Gloster Aircraft Company in 1950. Cooksey had first applied ...

About 14,000 people worked at the Gloster Aircraft Company factory at its peak [BBC] A new heritage trail is being created to showcase the history of one of Britain's most important aircraft factories ...

Remastered and recoloured footage brings new clarity to a dramatic moment in Cold War aviation. The Gloster Javelin is seen ...