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Gloster Javelin
Links, References & Credits

[History] [Survivors & Leading Particulars] [Pictures] [Links, References & Credits] 

This page last updated on 2nd October 2008

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, published by Dalrymple & Verdun Publishing, 2006; ISBN 1-905414-02-1. 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. [Buy from Amazon UK]

• Warpaint Series No.17 "Gloster Javelin" by Tony Buttler AMRAeS, 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, published by Ian Allan, 1983,1999; ISBN 0-7110-1323-3. 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. [Buy from Amazon UK]

• Gloster Javelin volume 1 & 2 by Roger Lindsay, 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.

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