Gloster Gladiator
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The Gloster Gladiator is a biplane fighter aircraft designed and produced by the British aviation firm Gloster Aircraft Company, Ltd.. It was the last biplane fighter to be flown by the Royal Air Forc
A Gloster Gladiator in RAF markings
Gloster Gladiator in pre-war RAF markings
The first prototype Gladiator, with Gauntlet fuselage, G-37, later K5200, April 1935
NoAAS Gloster Gladiator 423 in 1938–1940
Roald Dahl
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Roald Dahl was a British author of popular children's literature and short stories, a poet, screenwriter and a wartime fighter ace. His books have sold more than 300 million copies worldwide. He has b
Gloster Gladiator
…anything else in the world,' and if he applied himself diligently to his task, he would probably finish up by building something very like a Gladiator. — Roald Dahl, "A Piece of Cake", from the short story collection The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar The top scoring Gladiator aces flew it in North Africa and Greece…
Dahl in 1954
At the age of 10 with his sisters Alfhild, Else and Asta. Cardiff, 1927
Mrs Pratchett's former sweet shop in Llandaff, Cardiff, has a blue plaque dedicated to Dahl. His autobiography Boy: Tales of Childhood recalls the prank he and his friends played on her using a jar of gobstoppers.
Repton School in Derbyshire, which Dahl attended from 1929 to 1934