Gloster Javelin
Links, References & Credits
Links
- Mark Howard's Javelin XA699 site, about the Javelin he restored at the Midland Air Museum.
- Project Get Out and Walk - Javelin ejection history page with details of all Javelin ejections and lots of gorgeous old adverts and photos to admire.
- Vic Flintham's page on the Javelin with variant breakdowns and a selection of monochrome and colour pictures.
- Greg Goebel's Javelin history.
References - Books
Gloster Javelin by Richard A Franks
ISBN 1-905414-02-1
Published by Dalrymple & Verdun Publishing, 2006
Buy from Amazon UK
Excellent softback book with development and service history, lots of photos, detail diagrams and colour profiles, cancelled projects, plus a listing of each Javelin with basic history details. Highly recommended.
Warpaint No.17 Gloster Javelin by Tony Buttler AMRAeS
ISBN
Published by Hall Park Books, 1999
Lots of pictures (mostly monochrome but a good number in colour), development and service history, scale plans covering the differences on each variant, loads of colour profiles. Highly recommended.
Postwar Military Aircraft 1 Gloster Javelin by Maurice Allward
ISBN 0-7110-1323-3
Published by Ian Allan, 1983, 1999
Buy from Amazon UK
Excellent development and service history, going into detail of a selection of particular aircraft to further illustrate the story. Lots of diagrams and pictures, all in monochrome. Look upon this as a more detailed version of the Warpaint title without the colour profiles and you have a fair idea what you'll get. Recommended.
Gloster Javelin volume 1 & 2 by Roger Lindsay
Published by Privately published
Two excellent monographs with history, squadron markings, indidivual aircraft listings and lots of pictures. Volume 1 covered up to the FAW.6, volume 2 the FAW.7 and up. Sadly these are both practically impossible to find these days - if anybody has them available at a reasonable price I would be interested myself!
References - Magazines
- Aircraft Illustrated August 1984: Gloster Javelin: a production history - part 1 of an article on the development of the Javelin with several monochrome pictures.
- Air Pictorial January 1967: Javelin Swansong - two-page article looking at 228 OCU, the last UK-based Javelin operator as it was announced that they would be disbanding, with 5 monochrome photos, plus a Lightning and Canberra thrown in for good measure.
- Flight, 9th March 1956: Javelin Variants - presumably a variant rundown, haven't seen it myself.
- Lightning Review February 1998: Observations on the Lightning content of Wings of Fame. Actually a brief article by Brian Carroll, and starts off with his comments on what the Javelin was like (Jon Lake's WOF article is disparaging about the Javelin and Brian puts him right on a few things!).
Credits
This section would have been greatly the poorer without contributions from the following - so many thanks to (in
alphabetical order):
Brian Carroll (RIP), Neil Covitch, Kev Darling, Michael Hall, Mark Howard, Paul Kendrick, Rick Kent, Garry Lakin,
John Nickolls, John Tolland, Barry Tippit and Geoff Whatley.
Thanks also to the following organisations:
The Midland Air Museum and the Newark Air Museum.
Visitor Comments
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Chris Ward from Northumberland, UK
Posted at 1:33pm on Monday, September 13th, 2010
In 1960-61, I controlled a Gloster Javelin pair from Leuchars 4 PIs. Shortly after H/O 2 Approach Control 1 of the pair went 4 a free let down & crashed into a hill near Base.
Doug Gordon from France
Posted at 7:47pm on Monday, May 3rd, 2010
I'm currently preparing an article for journal publication on the Javelin. I would very much like to correspond with anyone who was directly connected with the airplane...in the air or on the ground. I would value personal and first hand input. Chris Wood and Bill Evans please respond!
Martin Longmore from buckinghamshire
Posted at 8:03pm on Friday, February 5th, 2010
Anyone out there with information on a Javelin crash near Bitteswell in the late 1950s? The pilot flew very low over our village, Pailton in Warwickshire and crashed north of the village. I have tried all the usual avenues of enquires but with no success.
Bill Evans from Houston Texas
Posted at 9:15pm on Saturday, September 5th, 2009
The photograph of three 11 Squadron Javelin 4s in formation is published in colour in the book World Aircraft under Gloster Javelin details. I flew the photographer in a Javelin T3
Evan Arthur from Horsham, West Sussex
Posted at 5:22pm on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Fabulous site!
Please have a look at the superb films of 60 Squadron Javelins in the Far East on YouTube - a must see for 'flat iron' fans!
NB: I can't post the actual URLs because they are too long for this text editor, but just search for "gloster javelin" on YouTube and look out for "Mission 66".
All the best
Phil Stephens from Northants
Posted at 8:54pm on Thursday, November 6th, 2008
For Chris Wood;
Do you have a photograph of No.33's T3 with the "3T3" markings either side of the nose?
Christopher Wood from Camberley
Posted at 11:30am on Saturday, October 4th, 2008
Flew JAVELINS WITH 33 & 5 Squadrons between 1960 &1964 and have a few Javelin photos you might be interested in.