Keith, e-mail, 23.07.2012 17:48 Does any one know if Bill Waterton crashlanded TX145 in a field near the RAE Farnborough (actually in Cove) in 1949 afer an engine failure

bombardier, e-mail, 24.10.2011 15:13 Take this plane,fit it with swept wings and tail and you have an excellent MiGkiller.

beifan, 20.06.2011 13:25 (about the same as the world air speed record in 1946) seems very optimistic to me...

, e-mail, 20.06.2011 13:24 that problems of compressibilty experienced at higher mach numbers were best answered useing swept wings, and so there was no point in proceeding with what would prove to be a dated design.

, e-mail, 20.06.2011 13:24 Gloster E.1/44 1948

Bill Krouwel, e-mail, 14.06.2011 17:35 Bill Waterton, who waqs responsible for testing it was deeply sarcastic about it, and thought it was good for nothing. The quoted maximum speed of 620 mph (about the same as the world air speed record in 1946) seems very optimistic to me...

Barry, 18.04.2011 16:17 This plane was known as the Ace and was one of a number of studies made by Gloster at about this time. The real reason it was not proceeded with was that in the immediate post war years it became apparent to all aircraft manufacturers that, as the Germans had already discovered, that problems of compressibilty experienced at higher mach numbers were best answered useing swept wings, and so there was no point in proceeding with what would prove to be a dated design.

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