The Museum's Meteor F8 (IWM Neg. No.: DXP(t) 94/57/9)

Britains Gloster Meteor, which first took to the air in 1943, was the only operational Allied jet of the war.

It scored its first combat success in August 1944 when an aircraft of No. 616 Squadron destroyed two flying bombs over Southern England. The Meteor became the standard RAF fighter of the immediate post-war years and from 1950 to 1955 the Meteor F8 was the RAF's principal day fighter.

Nos. 64 and 65 Squadrons, stationed at Duxford, were both equipped with the F8 in the early 1950's. Meteors of No.77 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force saw action during the Korean War, accounting for three enemy MiGs in air combat.