Gloster Javelin

The Gloster Javelin was an "all-weather" interceptor aircraft that served with Britain's Royal Air Force in the late 1950s and most of the 1960s. It was a large T-tailed delta-wing aircraft designed for night and bad weather operations. This machine, built at 436 exemplars, was the last aircraft to bear the Gloster name. For much more on this aircraft and many others, pay us a visit on www.aircraftube... (you may comment over there, so please do!)
Le Gloster Javelin était un avion de chasse "tous temps" développé au Royaume-Uni à partir de la fin des années 40. Biréacteur à aile delta, il a été construit à 436 exemplaires et fut en service entre 1956 et la fin des années 60. La suite sur cet avion et bien plus encore sur www.aircraftube... (N'hésitez pas à y placer vos commentaires et expériences!)

[@crmercer6407]

I saw one of these yesterday in a museum. I didn't realise how large they were!

[@nervo6321]

Very nice footage though.

[@ToonandBBfan]

The Javelin is the Typhoons Grandfather

[@nervo6321]

It wasn't called the flat iron for nothing !

[@curiouscaesar6813]

With those wings it should be airborne with a table fan!

[@nervo6321]

Flat Iron.

[@WarMarsM]

Songs used? sounds familiar.

[@aircraftube]

+Warq Castlevania - Vampire Killer

[@ascendingremake8061]

anyone know what version of the javelin this is?

[@TheHelensp]

Hard to say for sure. There were 9 versions altogether, most of the differences were radar and engines and guns/missiles. My dad was a navigator on them, we have several home movies like this. The government didn't help - there was a Defence White Paper in 1957 that said the manned fighter was obsolete, came out just as the early versions were being developed.

[@knm5194]

この音楽はデハビランド　バンパイア　にふさわしい

[@davidcarnell8065]

Supersonic? it would have fallen to bits if it had done that and would have run out of fuel in minutes.

[@britsh_weather_has_bipolar8199]

It was subsonic but like many subsonic aircraft of its class and time it could go supersonic briefly in certain circumstances like tight turns or pulling out of a shallow dive. It did not break up in such circumstances if flown correctly, which thankfully it usually was.

[@timmy3822]

Actually, it could reach mach 1.08 in a dive easily at altitude. Ideal case was a 15 degree dive from 40,000ft usually hitting past mach 1 before reaching 35,000ft. At sea level she could hit about 1160kph which is slightly more than the Hunter. The reheat on the Javelin wasn't actually that fuel intensive either and rather limited, compared to other jets at the time like the MiG-19 which if it used reheat continuously could be dry in about 7 minutes especially at lower altitudes.

[@botcheek482]

@@britsh_weather_has_bipolar8199 wings break at 1140 kmh so no it would of had broken wings

[@PygeonKilla97]

stop using warthunder as your main source of historical info. This was supersonic under the right circumstances and was not ever reported to rip apart in flight after the pre production model.

[@gunner678]

@@PygeonKilla97 well said, keyboard warriors are so tiresome.

[@knm5194]

悪魔城ドラキュラ😀

[@arodrigues2843]

The Gloster "Javelin" was an Interceptor, the Hawker "Typhoon", was a Ground Attacker!!!
Nothing to do wich one annother!!!

[@Mishn0]

Different Typhoon, mate. He's talking about the Eurofighter, not the WWII Tiffie.

[@danielreardon6453]

I am pretty sure that the Hawker Typhoon in ww2 was designed as a fighter intercepter

[@Charlesputnam-bn9zy]

@@danielreardon6453 Yes it was, at first in 1940.
But then after the valiant Hurricane successfully held the line that cut the Heinkels, Dorniers und Junkers into unusable halves, the heavier Typhoon was given another kind of mission it fulfilled in a staggering way. For the nazis that is.

[@timsweet3224]

the gloster dragmaster the pilots called um, fancy puttin thick wings on thinkin it would be flyin thru mushroom clouds in a nooklear war killin the reds bombers haha ,ulp g gulp ca ca ca coff coff erk !