Aviones Gloster: libros - historia y modelos

Gloster Gladiator Mk I and II (and Sea Gladiator)

The Gloster Gladiator was the very last biplane fighter to enter service with the RAF. Yet, despite being one of the fastest biplanes ever built, it was already obsolete upon its introduction to service in January 1937. Nonetheless, in the first eighteen months of WW2, it garnered many combat plaudits in the skies over the frozen Arctic, the sun-kissed Mediterranean, and the arid deserts of Africa.
In Britain, it provided crucial defense of the RN Fleet anchored at Scapa Flow, and was among the first aircraft sent to France to aid the BEF. Adopted early-on by the FAA and renamed Sea Gladiator, for a time this navalized version represented the nearest thing the service had to a modern fighter as it struggled toward parity with its Axis opponents.

This book tells the complete story. The text covers not only the type?s remarkable operational history, but also that of Gloster?s journey to its production. Also examined are the Gladiator?s design and construction, and its subsequent technical development. Second-line duties and service with foreign air forces are also briefly covered.
Supporting lavish artwork and 3-D exploded views vividly bring the aircraft to life, making it an ideal reference work for the modeler.

Detalle del libro

Autor:	Adam Cotton, Marek Rys
Presentación:	215 páginas, 29.5 x 21 x 1.3 cm, tapa blanda
Ilustración:	120 fotos en b/n, 3-D vistas en despiece
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	Kagero Oficyna Wydawnicza (PL, 2019)
ISBN:	9788365437860

Gloster Gauntlet

The Gloster Gauntlet was a British single-seat biplane fighter of the RAF, designed and built by the Gloster Aircraft Company in the 1930s. It was the last RAF fighter to have an open cockpit and its penultimate biplane fighter in service. It was also Britain's most successful and popular inter-war fighter aircraft.

This book offers a complete and comprehensive history of the development and service of the plane, plus scale plans, photographs and drawings from pre-war technical manuals, scale plans, rare b+w period photographs, superb colour illustrations of camouflage and markings and walk-around colour photographs of the sole surviving examples. A rarely documented aspect of pre-World War II aviation history.

Revised and expanded version of the material published in Bristol Bulldog & Gloster Gauntlet (August 2005, ISBN 9788389450043).

Detalle del libro

Autor:	Alex Crawford
Presentación:	96 páginas, 23 x 16.5 cm, tapa blanda
Ilustración:	ricamente ilustrado con fotos en b/n y color, dibujos
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	MMP Books (PL, 2017)
ISBN:	9788365281616

Gloster Aircraft Company

The Gloster Aircraft Company had its foundation in 1917 and in 1934 the company was taken over by Hawker Aircraft, though it continued to produce aircraft under its own name. In that same year the company produced the famous Gladiator biplane.

Having no modern designs of its own in production, Gloster undertook manufacture for the parent company Hawker. During the Second World War it built more than 6,000 Hurricanes and Typhoons.

The Gloster Meteor was the first operational Allied jet fighter aircraft of the Second World War, commencing operations in mid-1944, only some weeks later than the world's first operational jet, the German Messerschmitt Me 262. In 1945 a Meteor gained a World Airspeed Record of 606 mph.
Meteors remained in service with several air forces and saw action in the Korean War.
In 1952, the two seat, delta winged Gloster Javelin was developed as an all-weather fighter that could fly above 50,000 feet.

In 1961, the company was merged with Sir W.G. Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Limited to form Whitworth Gloster Aircraft Limited. Following re-organisation, the firm became part of the Avro Whitworth Division of Hawker Siddeley Aviation in 1963, and the name Gloster disappeared.

This well-illustrated book describes the story of Gloster and its aircraft.

Detalle del libro

Autor:	Derek James
Presentación:	192 páginas, 23.5 x 15.5 x 1.2 cm, tapa blanda
Ilustración:	200 fotos en b/n y dibujos de perfil
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	Fonthill Media (GB, 2013)
ISBN:	9781781552599

Gladiator vs CR.42 Falco - 1940-41 (Osprey)

Tanto el Gloster Gladiator como el Fiat CR.42 Falco representaron la cúspide del desarrollo del caza biplano, cuyo linaje se remonta a la Primera Guerra Mundial. Sin embargo, cuando ambos aviones entraron en servicio a finales de la década de 1930, ya estaban obsoletos. No obstante, prestaron un servicio excepcional en todos los frentes del Mediterráneo y África entre 1940 y 1941.

De hecho, el CR.42 fue el caza principal de la Regia Aeronautica tanto en el norte como en el este de África, en Grecia y sobre Malta entre 1940 y 1941, periodo durante el cual sus pilotos combatieron habitualmente contra escuadrones británicos y de la Commonwealth equipados principalmente con biplanos Gladiator.
Se produjeron intensos combates aéreos entre estos dos tipos de aeronaves mientras los Aliados intentaban controlar el espacio aéreo del norte de África, Grecia y África Oriental. Ambos tipos de aviones eran pilotados principalmente por pilotos con gran experiencia antes de la guerra, lo que propició enfrentamientos muy reñidos.

El primer combate conocido entre el CR.42 y el Gladiator tuvo lugar el 14 de junio de 1940 en el norte de África, y el último enfrentamiento entre ambos tipos se produjo el 24 de octubre de 1941 en el frente de África Oriental.

Detalle del libro

Autor:	Hakan Gustavsson, Ludovico Slongo
Presentación:	80 páginas, 25 x 18.5 x 1 cm, tapa blanda
Ilustración:	ricamente ilustrado con fotos y dibujos (en b/n y color)
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	Osprey Publishing (GB, 2012)
Colección:	Duel (47)
ISBN:	9781849087087

Gloster Aircraft Company (Images of England)

Today it is difficult to imagine that the parishes of Hucclecote and Brockworth once were home to one of Britain's major manufacturers. Gloster Aircraft Company, with its forebears H.H. Martyn & Company and Gloucestershire Aircraft Company, produced some 10,000 aeroplanes between 1917 and 1963.
It also provided employment for countless thousands of local people. During World War II alone it employed 14,000 men and women working at the main factory and at 40 sites dispersed in Gloucester, Cheltenham, Stroud and other more distant parts of Gloucestershire.

Gloster designed a number of outstanding fighter aircraft which were built in large numbers; it also produced many prototypes which failed to win orders and very many more projects which never left the drawing board.
By chance the company was chosen to design and build Britain's first jet aircraft and followed by building 4,000 jet fighters for the Royal Air Force and a dozen air forces around the world.

Gloster finally became the first victim of a programme of political and economic stringency which has since decimated British aircraft manufacturing companies. This album portrays some of those people who worked 'up at the 'drome for GAC' and the works of their hands.

Detalle del libro

Autor:	Derek James
Presentación:	160 páginas, 23 x 16.5 x 1.3 cm, tapa blanda
Ilustración:	ricamente ilustrado con fotos en b/n
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	The History Press Ltd (GB, 2009)
ISBN:	9780752400389