Meteor Collection

Advertisement for the Rover Safety Bicycle, 1885
Advertisment for the Rover Safety Bicycle, built by Starley and Sutton of the Meteor Works, Coventry

Gloster Meteor F8 WA820
Gloster Meteor F8, WA820, was used to test two Armstrong Siddeley Saphire axial-flow turbojets

Six generations of RAF fighters line up together on the tarmac. Hawker Hurricane IIC, LF363; Supermarine Spitfire PRXIX, PM631; Gloster Meteor F8, WL164; Hawker Hunter F6

Gloster Meteor F-8
RAF 56 Squadron Gloster Meteor F-8S Flying in a Stacked 9-Ship Formation out of RAF Bentwaters Date: 1940s

Man on his 1956 / 7 Royal Enfield motorcycle
Travelling biker on his 1956/7 Royal Enfield Meteor motorcycle outside the Post Office at John O Groats in the late 1950s

The Gloster Meteor FR9 prototype VW360
The Gloster Meteor FR9 prototype, VW360

Gloster Meteor F4 RA490
Gloster Meteor F4, RA490, following use as a Beryl engine testbed, the aircraft was heavily modified to take two Rolls-Royce Nene turbojets for trials with a jet deflection system

Gloster Meteor F8 WA855
Gloster Meteor F8, WA855

Meteor fireball engraving
Contemporary engraving by Harry Robinson of a meteor seen near Newark-upon-Trent on 18 August 1783. A single fireball that quickly broke up into many small ones was seen

Gloster Meteor Mk. 8 - Mk. 7 combination G-ANSO
Gloster Meteor Mk.8 - Mk.7 combination (ex GAF) G-ANSO, at the 1954 SBAC Farnborough air-show. Built as an F Mk.8 airframe with strengthened outer wings, the Ground Attack Fighter (GAF) aka Reaper

Egyptian Gloster Meteor F4s

Avro Lincoln B2 RA657 used by Flight Refuelling
Avro Lincoln B2, RA657, used by Flight Refuelling for probe and drogue trials. Seen here with a Gloster Meteor F4, VZ389

Gloster Meteor T. 7 WA669 27
Royal Air Force - Gloster Meteor T.7 WA669 27, of the Central flying School, at RAF Little Rissington, on 1 August 1970. (RAF Little Rissington is the highest active airfield in the British Isles)

Gloster Meteor F3 EE457
Gloster Meteor F3, EE457

The iron steam vessels Meteor and Prince of Wales, built by Miller, Ravenhill & Co, leaving Brunswick Wharf, Blackwall. Coloured lithograph by R K Thomas after a drawing bys D Skillett

Gloster Meteor T7s perform aerobatics

Gloster Meteor F-3
RAF 74 Squadron Gloster Meteor F-3S Parked Date: 1940s

Gloster Meteor FR-9
RAF 2 (Ac) Squadron Gloster Meteor Fr-9 Date: 1940s

Sqn Ldr Bill Waterton leaves Gloster Meteor EE549 at Fa?
Sqn Ldr Bill Waterton leaves Gloster Meteor EE549 at Farnborough after flying from Le Bourget to Croydon in 20 minutes at an average speed of 616mph on 16 January 1947

Gloster F. 9-40 5758M - DG202-G
Gloster F.9/40 5758M / DG202/G, the first of the nine F.9/40s which preceded the Gloster Meteor, at RAF Yatesbury on 31 March 1958. Date: 1958

Meteor shower orbit prediction
The Leonids are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Temple??Tuttle, which are also known for their spectacular meteor storms that occur about every 33 years

Gloster Meteor F. 8 EG-224 - K5-K
Gloster Meteor F.8 EG-224 / K5-K (msn M1, K5-K), a former Belgian Air Force example, on display at the Royal Army Museum, Brussels. Date: circa 1985

Armstrong Whitworth Meteor TT. 20 WD610
Royal Navy - Armstrong Whitworth Meteor TT.20 WD610. The TT.20 was a target-tug conversion from surplus NF.11 night-fighters. Date: circa 1958

Gloster Meteor F. 8 WH364 V
Royal Air Force - Gloster Meteor F.8 WH364 V, of No.85 Squadron, at RAF Abingdon on 14 June 1968, for the 50th Anniversary of the formation of the Royal Air Force. Date: 1968

Armstrong Whitworth Meteor NF. 14
Royal Radar Establishment - Armstrong Whitworth Meteor NF.14 WS838, at RAF Leuchars on 21 April 1970. Date: 1970

Gloster Meteor 7 and a halfs WL419 (msn G5-423772), of Martin-Baker Aircraft Co. (on loan from the Ministry of defence), at Boscombe Down for Air Tournament International 1992, on 13 June 1992

Armstrong-Whitworth Meteor NF. 11 WD687
Armstrong-Whitworth Meteor NF.11 WD687, at the Ministry of Aviation Fire School, Stansted Airport, on 7 April 1962, before succumbing to the flames, during fire-fighting practice. Date: 1962

Gloster Meteor F. 8 7258M
Royal Air Force - Gloster Meteor F.8 7254M 3 (ex WH357), at RAF Halton with No.1 School of Technical Training in March 1961 Date: 1961

Cartoon, The Valley of the Shadow of Death, by James Gillray. Depicting Napoleon (ironically in the role of John Bunyan's pilgrim, Christian) having to confront an array of problems

Gloster Meteor F. 8 VH-MBX
Gloster Meteor F.8 VH-MBX Halestorm (msn, ex VZ467 Winston'), of the Temora Aviation Museum, painted as U.21 A77-851. Date: circa 2000

Armstrong-Whitworth Meteor NF. 11 NF. 11-8 - BG
Armstrong-Whitworth Meteor NF.11 NF.11-8 / BG (msn AW.5564), at the Ailes Anciennes Toulouse Museum, in November 1998. Date: 1998

Gloster Meteor T. 7 XF274
Royal Air Force - Gloster Meteor T.7 XF274, of the Royal Aircraft Establishment, at RAF St. Mawgan, Cornwall, in September 1970. Date: 1970

Gloster Meteor NF. 14 WS788
(ex Royal Air Force) - Gloster Meteor NF(T).14 WS788 Z, preserved in the colours of No.152 Squadron, at the Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, York

The great aerolite, from the Kurrukpoor Hills, India. The museum of the Asiatic Society in Calcutta displaying the aerolite (meteor) presented to the society by Captain Walter Sherwill

Carthusian monks, Mount Pindus, northern Greece
Carthusian monks, Mount Pindus, Thessaly, at the border of northern Greece and southern Albania. Their monastery is at the very top of the mountain. 1842

AVIA Meteor FL. 55B OE-ABS
AVIA Meteor FL.55B OE-ABS (msn 1124), undergoing maintenance. Date: circa 1970

Gloster Meteor F. 4 VT260
Gloster Meteor F.4 VT260, call-sign 67, in the decontamination training compound at the Defence NBC Centre, Winterbourne Gunner, near Salisbury on 28 June 1969. Date: 1969

Gloster Meteor F Mk. 4 RA435
Gloster Meteor F Mk.4 RA435, bailed to Rolls-Royce at Hucknall and fitted with afterburners on its Derwent engines. Date: circa 1935

RED SEA METEOR
METEOR OVER SINAI is interpreted by Arabs as a portent of grave events in the Red Sea area : shortly after, war breaks out between Italy and Ethiopia... Date: July 1935

METEORITE /
A meteor shower seen from a balloon over Northern France by Wilfred de Fonvielle Date: November 1867

FLYING SHIP IN SPACE
The ship encounters a meteor. Date: First published: 1923

Gloster Sapphire Meteor WA820
Gloster Sapphire Meteor F.8 WA820 at the 1950 SBAC Farnborough Air Show. In the background can be seen Gloster Meteor F.4 VZ389 and Avro Lincoln B.2 RA657 of Flight refuelling Ltd

Royal Navy Armstrong Whitworth Meteor TT. 20 WM292
Royal Navy Armstrong Whitworth Meteor TT.20 WM292 841. Target tug of the Fleet Requirement and Directions Unit at RNAS Yeovilton

Gloster Meteor F. IV
An unidentified Gloster Meteor F.IV parked on the grass at an unknown location Date: circa 1975

A very early Gloster Meteor with long-span wings and gun ports removed, as per High-speed Flight aircraft. It also has very unusual intake screens, very rarely seen on Meteors

A very early Gloster Meteor with long-span wings and gun ports removed, as per High-speed Flight aircraft. It also has very unusual intake screens, very rarely seen on Meteors

Gloster Meteor

Gloster Meteor NF-14
RAF Gloster Meteor Nf-14S flying in formation Date: 1950s

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