Photographs, silhouette drawings and brief description of Gloster Aircraft's Meteor twin turbine jet plane; two Rolls-Royce units employed; all-metal stressed skin construction is used throughout; span 43 ft; length 41 ft; height 13 ft; wing area 374 sq ft; features of specially designed Dowty tricycle undercarriage in which main wheel units shorten while they retract. (see also Engineer v 158 n 1856 July 20 1945 p 46-7; Engineering v 160 n 4148 July 13 1945 p 45, 50)
Progress with jet propulsion
Flight
Flight ; 48 , n 1908
1945
3 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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