Gloster Meteor T Mk 7.5
Item Number:
SH72317
SH72317
Manufacturer
Special Hobby
Special Hobby
Scale:
1:72
1:72
The first operational British jet-powered fighter was the Gloster Meteor.
Following the wartime Meteor Mk.Is and Mk.III, the post-war Mk.4 version was produced with much better performance.
On 7 November 1945, a world speed record attempt was made with two Meteor Mk.3s converted to Mk.4 standard.
The RAF High Speed Flight Meteors, serial numbers EE454 and EE455, were flown by RAF Group Captain Hugh Joseph Wilson and Gloster Chief Test Pilot Eric Stanley Greenwood.
Wilson, flying the camouflaged EE454, was a few miles faster than Greenwood in the (almost) all-yellow EE455, who improved the record to 975.68 mph.
Less than a year later, Captain E. M. (Teddy) Donaldson set a new record of 991.33 km/h in a Meteor with serial number EE549, and in January 1947 the same machine also improved the speed record between Paris and London.
The Meteor T.7 was a two-seat trainer variant of the F.4.
Plastic model kit
unbuilt / unpainted
Following the wartime Meteor Mk.Is and Mk.III, the post-war Mk.4 version was produced with much better performance.
On 7 November 1945, a world speed record attempt was made with two Meteor Mk.3s converted to Mk.4 standard.
The RAF High Speed Flight Meteors, serial numbers EE454 and EE455, were flown by RAF Group Captain Hugh Joseph Wilson and Gloster Chief Test Pilot Eric Stanley Greenwood.
Wilson, flying the camouflaged EE454, was a few miles faster than Greenwood in the (almost) all-yellow EE455, who improved the record to 975.68 mph.
Less than a year later, Captain E. M. (Teddy) Donaldson set a new record of 991.33 km/h in a Meteor with serial number EE549, and in January 1947 the same machine also improved the speed record between Paris and London.
The Meteor T.7 was a two-seat trainer variant of the F.4.
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