On 8/21/2015 1:28 PM, Joseph Testagrose wrote:

There was an ignominious end for the first prototype:

"Progress on the new fighter was slow, with Gloster concentrating on
development of the Meteor. The first prototype was not completed until
July 1947, and was destroyed in a road accident when being taken to
Boscombe Down for flight testing."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloster_E.1/44

Ri©ardo

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