Gloster Meteor - The First Jet That Chased And Downed A Nazi V-1 Flying Bomb [WWII DOCUMENTARY]
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- This video is about the history of the Gloster Meteor, the first jet fighter to be used by the British Royal Air Force (RAF).
Although the Gloster Meteor was not the first jet fighter to be flown, it was the first to be used in squadron service.
The Germans had already developed jet fighters like the Arado Ar 234 and Messerschmitt Me 262, but the Gloster Meteor was the only Allied jet fighter to see service during World War II.
Despite setbacks, the Gloster Meteor eventually entered service in July 1944 with the RAF 616 Squadron. The Meteor was initially used for air defense roles and to counter V-1 flying bombs. Due to its top secret status, the Meteor was not allowed to fly over German-controlled territory until January 1945.
Listen to how legendary test pilot Eric Winkle Brown found out about the first British Jet by mere chance and how he later became its test pilot.
We also feature an insight into how the V-1 flying bomb pulse jet worked.
The V-1 flying bomb "Vergeltungswaffe 1" or "Vengeance Weapon 1" was an early cruise missile. Its official Reich Aviation Ministry (RLM) designation was Fieseler Fi 103, and its suggestive name was Höllenhund (hellhound). It was also known to the Allies as the buzz bomb or doodlebug and in Germany as Kirschkern (cherry stone) or Maikäfer (maybug).
The V-1 was the first of the Vergeltungswaffen (V-weapons) deployed for the terror bombing of London. It was developed at Peenemünde Army Research Center in 1939 by the Luftwaffe at the beginning of the Second World War, and during initial development was known by the codename "Cherry Stone". Due to its limited range, the thousands of V-1 missiles launched into England were fired from launch facilities along the French (Pas-de-Calais) and Dutch coasts or by modified He 111 aircraft.
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Amazingly, on being relocated to Afghanistan in early 2006 while operating on a UN contract, I was taxiing out at Kabul and found myself following a Gloucester Meteor ! Still operational and I believe being utilised as an ISR platform. I'm not sure when it was finally retired but I think it was only a year or so later. It had the revised tail configuration developed from the earlier E 1/44 design. Very rare. Exactly what year this particular aircraft came on line I don't know but to be taxiing out behind a 60 year old, still operational jet from the 1940s in 2006 was something for the grandchildren :>)
My uncle Geoff Collins flew a Gloster Meteor in Korea for the RAAF 77 Squad. He was the captain of Melbourne Football Club prior to his service so they painted an evil looking Demon with a pitchfork both sides of his jet behind his cannons. He always spoke highly of the Gloster as being very reliable, getting him back to base safely even after being shot up several times & once without a canopy.
Eric Brown. The most remarkable pilot in history. No caveats
I'll drink to that!
The Meteor was not Britain's first jet aircraft: that was the Gloster-Whittle E28/39. The Meteor was Britain's first jet fighter.
You are absolutely right, although the Gloster-Whittle was really a prototype/test-bed.
By the way, did you watch out Whittle’s interviews on the channel?
If you are passionate about his work and life, you cannot miss them
Wonderful stuff.....especially the early Farnborough colour jet footage,
It never ceases to amaze me how shortsighted, and how often, the British establishment managed to destroy early jet development. The interviews with Messer's Whittle and Brown clearly shows how the government of the time allowed itself to be bullied so it could gain a few bars of gold.😢
It scored the first jet air to air kill.
Not really a kill though.
Outstanding, exciting documentary
Outstanding, exciting doco !
Worked on these in the RAAF 1969 did not realise how old they were..nicked named the meat box.
What on earth is that opening faux footage of a V1 being launched from an aircraft?
How it was back in the day. We had a squadron of Meteors. The German jet was good but how many flew on a daily basis?
" To defeat the 3rd Reich, was necessary the Soviet sacrifice,the American support and above all the British Inteligence.* Unknow 🤔
A Great spirit, Mr Brown.,a brave Man !
I'm surprised an unmanned drone destroyed by a manned aircraft is enough to credit the first jet vs jet aerial kill, I'd think you'd need two piloted jet aircraft for such a claim, very lame crediting the Gloster Meteor as first jet to jet victory, more accurately the first jet to intercept a missile
It's called grasping at straws. They have to include that when there's nothing else.
Not even 10 seconds into the video...
"On June 12th, 1945, a new weapon..."
A month after the war ended in Europe?
Proved to be very little use against the V1, far too slow to accelerate. Numbers vary between 13-20. That job was left to the Tempest V.
Right, two things jarring right from the start, V-1 dropped from a Heinkel? They were launched off rails in occupied Europe, hence why the threat diminished both from allied bombing of the launch sites, and the advance of troops into those areas after D-Day. Secondly, "Winkle discovers the Meteor"? No it wasn't, that was it's single engined predecessor that he stumbled across at Cranwell, as per the archive footage.
Germans did launch V-1's from He-111's based in Holland after the launch sites in France were overrun.
Jet aircraft seen was gloster e.28 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloster_E.28/39
Do you know what else is 'jarring'? When people say 'hence why'......It's just 'hence'
June 12, 1945? The war in Europe was over... Not very many new V1 "threats" at that stage.
The sound of the v1 in opening video all wrong! It was a pulse jet not a turbine! Had a deep throaty buzz!
Gloster did not see the light of day until after the war, after the Messerschmitt 262 was transferred to the Allied countries
The Meteor first flew in 1943 and commenced operations on 27 July 1944 with No. 616 Squadron RAF.
incorrect, and a pretty basic error in WW2 history that would have been easily addressed before posting.
@@Murfie-qe3pp Hiding from Germans is neither operations or combat