RAF Culmhead
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Royal Air Force Culmhead or more simply RAF Culmhead is a former Royal Air Force station, situated at Churchstanton on the Blackdown Hills in Somerset, England. It was originally named RAF Church Stan
The old control tower taken in 2006
Aerial photograph of Churchstanton airfield, looking north, 26 June 1942. Note several fighter aircraft parked on the grassy areas.
Industrial estate, built on the site of the signals unit. Taken in 2006
Gloster Meteor
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The Gloster Meteor is the first British jet fighter and the Allies' only jet aircraft to engage in combat operations during the Second World War. It was designed and primarily produced by the Gloster
RAF Culmhead
…version of the Supermarine Spitfire specially adapted for operation from aircraft carriers. After D-Day in 1944, the airfield was used for training on Gloster Meteors, the first jet engined aircraft in RAF service. No. 616 Squadron RAF tested them Culmhead before deploying them for their first operational sortie on…
One F.8 in flying condition operated by the RAAF's Historic Flight
Prototype Meteor DG202/G on display at the Royal Air Force Museum London in 2011. The "/G" appended to the aircraft serial denoted that the aircraft was to have an armed guard at all times while it was on the ground.
Meteor being deployed in March 1945
Operational Meteor NF.14 of No. 264 Squadron RAF in 1955