Meteor: The Ultimate Profile DVD

The Meteor, The Ultimare Profile, is a very well produced programme. It tells the full story of how the Gloster Meteor came about and how it was created. The Gloster Meteor was proposed in the summer of 1940 and it was the very first jet aircraft that was flown by the Allied air forces during World War 2. Surprising though this might seem, this video was the first video to be made about this extremely important military aircraft. It follows the ...
...on the drawing board (literally, in this instance) through testing and through to the first test flights and the years of service with the RAF as a front line fighter plane. The creation of this video led to an important discovery, some extensive colour footage of Sir Frank Writtle, Britain's very own pioneer of jet planes, and some early footage of the aircraft being flown for the first test flights is also shown. We are shown production line footage ...

Martinscholes 05.02.2006 · Read full review
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