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Gladiator - Aircraft Profile - Gloster : Gladiator

Gladiator

Manufacturer : Gloster
Number Built : 746
Production Began : 1935
Retired : 1945
Type : Fighter

GLOSTER GLADIATOR: A continuation form the Gloster Gauntlet aircraft the Gloster Gladiator (SS37) becoming designated the F.7/30 was named Gladiator on the 1st July 1935. The first 70 Gladiators had Under wing machine guns (Vickers or Lewis) before the browning became standard The first aircraft arrived at Tangmere airfield on in February 1937 to no. 72 squadron. at the outbreak of world war two a total of 218 Gladiators had been received by the Royal air force with a total of 76 on active service. They served also in the Middle eats and in 1940 when Italy joined the war was nearly the only front line fighter in the middle east. Between 1939 and 1941. the Gloster Gladiator flew in many war zones. flying in France, Greece, Norway, Crete Egypt Malta and Aden. The Aircraft claimed nearly 250 air victories. It stayed in front line duties until 1942, then becoming fighter trainer, and other sundry roles. It continued in these roles until the end of world war two. The Naval equivalent the Sea Gladiator a short service in the Middle east and European waters. A Total of 746 aircraft were built of these 98 were Sea Gladiators.. Performance. speed: 250mph at 17,500 feet, 257 mph at 14,600 Range 430 miles. Armament: Two fixed .3-03 browning machine guns

Gladiator


Latest Gladiator Artwork Releases !
Lattely known as Air Marshal Sir Peter Guy Wykeham, KCB, DSO and Bar, OBE, DFC and Bar, AFC - he is shown here baling out of his stricken Gloster Gladiator of No.80 Sqn over North Africa on 4th August 1940. At the time he would have been known as Peter Wykeham-Barnes - a flying Ace who would go on to score 14 victories plus 3 shared in a wartime career which also saw him fly with No.274 Sqn and command No.73 Sqn, No.257 Sqn and No.23 Sqn. Remaining with the Royal Air Force after the war, he became a test pilot and served with the US Air Force in the Korean War before taking serveral roles in the RAF, culminating in Deputy Chief of Air Staff from 1967 until retirement in 1969. He died in 1995.

Tribute to Peter Wykeham-Barnes by Ivan Berryman.		 Outnumbered and outclassed, the aging Gloster Gladiators of 112 Sqn nonetheless put up a spirited defence in the skies above Crete as Germanys Operation Mercury gathered momentum in the Spring of 1941. Here, shark-mouthed Messerschmitt Bf.110s of ZG.76 menace a lone Gladiator during an evening encounter.

Impossible Odds by Ivan Berryman. (PC)		 The second half of 1940 saw repeated attacks by the Regia Aeronautica on Allied airstrips in East Africa, but its aging bomber force proved no match for the Hurricanes and Gladiators that offered a spirited defence. The airstrip at Wajir in Kenya was attacked several times by the Italians, but largely survived, the worst damage being the destruction of a fuel dump on 13th June. Here, a Gloster Gladiator of No.1 SAAF Squadron despatches a Caproni Ca.133, just south of Wajir.

Raid on Wajir by Ivan Berryman. (PC)		 Malta, 22nd June 1940. Some 12 days after the air battle for Malta began, the recently raised ad hoc Gladiator flight claimed its first confirmed victory. Flt. Lt. George Burges, and Flg. Off. Timber Woods were alerted to a lone S.79 from 219 Squadriglia on a reconnaissance sortie. They managed to intercept the intruder over Valetta, and although Timber's first attack was unsuccessful, Burges in Charity shot off the Savoia's port engine sending it crashing into the sea at Kalafrana.

Charity by David Pentland. (GS)

Gladiator Artwork Collection



Gloster Gladiator Mk II L8011 YK-O. by M A Kinnear.


Shuttleworth Salute by Ivan Berryman.


First Victory by Ivan Berryman.


Lone Gladiator by Ivan Berryman.


Clipped Signature - James Pickering.


Clipped Signature - Sir Peter Wykeham.


Clipped Signature - Sir John Lapsley.


Clipped Signature - Ralph Roberts.


Clipped Signature - Sir Humphrey Edwardes-Jones.


Pattle's First Victory, 4th August 1940 by David Pentland.


Faith, Hope and Charity by Kenneth McDonough.


Angels of Malta - Faith, Hope and Charity by Ivan Berryman.


Impossible Odds by Ivan Berryman.


Veterans of the Med by Ivan Berryman.


Operation Mercury by Nicolas Trudgian.


Gloster Gladiator by Robert Taylor.


Raid on Wajir by Ivan Berryman.


Gloster Sea Gladiator by Jerry Boucher.


Charity by David Pentland


Tribute to Peter Wykeham-Barnes by Ivan Berryman.


Scramble by David Pentland.


Charity by David Pentland.


Textbook Attack by David Pentland.

Gloster Gladiator Aces.


Faith Hope and Charity by Stan Stokes.

Top Aces for : Gladiator
A list of all Aces from our database who are known to have flown this aircraft. A profile page is available by clicking the pilots name.
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Marmaduke Pattle34.00
William Vale22.00
Alan Christopher Deere22.00The signature of Alan Christopher Deere features on some of our artwork - click here to see what is available.
Charles Palliser7.50The signature of Charles Palliser features on some of our artwork - click here to see what is available.