Gloster Javelin Jet Fighter

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Gloster Javelin

MAURICE ALLWARD

Following the remarkable success of lan Allan's 'Modern Combat Aircraft' series, this companion series on 'Postwar Military Aircraft' is intended to cover important and influential aircraft that are no longer in air force service.

Maurice Allward author of two books in the MCA series on the F-86 Sabre and the Buccaneer starts this new series with a study of the Gloster Javelin. The Javelin an all-weather fighter built between 1949 and 1959 equipped 12 RAF squadrons in an operational career that ended in 1968.

During that period, perhaps its most strenuous role outside the air defence of the UK and service in West Germany was its use by the RAF in Malaya during the so-called 'Confrontation' with Indonesia. Equipped with Aden cannon and the Firestreak air-to-air mis-siles, No 60 Squadron's Javelins at one time numbered 33 making it the largest RAF squadron of the period.

The end of the 'Confrontation' saw the end of the Javelin and after a short final rundown the supersonic Lightning took over. Postwar Military Aircraft 1: Gloster Javelin details the complete history of this significant fighter with over 150 splendid photographs.