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Gloster/Armstrong Whitworth Meteor NF14 at the RAF Museum, Cosford, 8 July 2020. The aircraft was hung from the cieling and the presence of three huge V-bombers beneath it meant that a even half-decent photograph was not easy. Even though the Luftwaffe had first deployed jet night fighters in the closing stages of WWII (a small number of Messerschmitt Me262B-1a/U1 and Arado Ar234B-2/N), the RAF had no jet night fighters until 1951 when the Meteor NF11 entered service. Responsibilty for the development and production of the night fighter variant of the Meteor, already an aging design, was handed over by Gloster to Armstrong Whitworth (an associated company) and several marks were built culminating in the impressive-looking, long-nosed NF14 of 1953; it lasted in service until 1961 (1965 as night fighter trainers whilst NF11's converted to target tugs served until 1968). The Meteor night fighters, together with the de Havilland Vampire and Venom night fighters, were really no more than an interim solution to the need for a modern night fighter until the Gloster Javelin was brought into service, an advanced design which was taking longer to develop than anticipated. The Meteor NF11, 12, 13 & 14 had a good radar, but only a cannon armament so were not in the same class as the American night fighters of the period such as the missile-armed versions of the Lockheed F-94 Starfire, Northrop F-89 Scorpion and the all-weather versions of the North American F-86 Sabre, all of which had very impressive avionics/radar suites for the era. |
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| Author | Hugh Llewelyn from Keynsham, UK |
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