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This book tells the story of the Gloster E.28/39, Britain's first jet powered aircraft. This aircraft was designed at high speed, in wartime conditions, making its first flight in April 1941, only nineteen months after work began on the design in September 1939.
That rapid progress was made possible by the Gloster design team, led by George Carter. This book concentrates on Carter and his team, and on the Gloster test pilots who flew this experimental aircraft. The text is very well supported by extracts from well chosen contemporary documents and from eye witness accounts of key moments in the development of the aircraft, which give us a real feel for the atmosphere in which this pivotal aircraft was designed and built. A fascinating book looking at the development of one of the most important aircraft in British aviation.
Chapters
1: Why Gloster
2: Designing and Building the E28
3: It Flies - Unofficially
4: Flying at Cranwell
5: The E28's Later Flights
6: Meteor and Gormless
7: The Designers
8: Gloster's E28 Pilots
9: Commemorating the Pioneers
10: Afterword
Author: Tim Kershaw
Edition: Hardcover
Pages: 150
Publisher: Sutton Publishing Ltd.
Year: 2004