Meteor_F8 2 Sqdn RAF
The Gloster Meteor F.8 in 2 Squadron RAF livery — Britain's first operational jet fighter — captured as an RC EDF scale model.
About
The Gloster Meteor was the first British operational jet fighter and the only Allied jet aircraft to see combat in WWII. Designed by Gloster Aircraft Company's George Carter, the Meteor first flew on March 5, 1943, and entered RAF service in July 1944. F.1 variants chased V-1 flying bombs over southern England.
The Meteor F.8 variant introduced in 1949 was the definitive postwar Meteor — longer fuselage, more powerful Rolls-Royce Derwent 8 engines, and Martin-Baker ejection seat. The F.8 was the most-produced Meteor variant, serving with the RAF, Royal Navy, and over a dozen foreign air forces. RAF 2 Squadron was one of many British squadrons to fly the Meteor through the early postwar period.
The unmistakable Meteor silhouette — twin engines on a straight low wing, single fuselage, twin tails — is one of the more distinctive early-jet subjects in modern RC EDF scale flying.
In the simulator
A demanding twin-engine early-jet scale subject. A natural sibling of the Meteor F8 IAF variant in this same pack — same airframe, different national livery.
