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Gloster E.28/39

Britain's first jet aircraft
Class type of: aircraft Q430259

Facts

6 properties

Identity

Instance of
aircraft model
More facts +5
Subclass of
aircraft[3]
Country of origin
United Kingdom[5]
Designed by
George Carter[4]
First flight
May 15, 1941[6]
Manufacturer
Gloster Aircraft Company[2]
🏷️ Also known as
en Gloster E.28/39 en Gloster Pioneer en Gloster Whittle ar جلوستر إي 28\39 fi Gloster-Whittle E. 28/39 he גלוסטר E.28/39 ja グロスター E.28/39 zh 格洛斯特E.28/39
🔖 Identifiers · 4
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Gloster E28-39 first prototyp lr.jpg ↗
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
technology/Gloster-E28-39
Freebase ID
/m/01_sv9
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Gloster_E28/39

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🔗 Connections
Country of origin 1
United Kingdom
Manufacturer 1
Gloster Aircraft Company
Subclass of 1
aircraft
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Summary

Gloster E.28/39 is an aircraft model[1].

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United Kingdom

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  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . baesystems.com. baesystems.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Encyclopædia Britannica Online. baesystems.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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