Gloster Meteor F.3 - First Edition (CANCELLED!!!!!!!!! To Become MK8/FR9 in 2025)
Product code 03860
Gloster
Provisional price
subject to change
Scale 1 : 32
Publisher/Brand Revell
Category Scale Modelling Kits
Subcategory Scale Modelling Kits
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This product was added to our database on Friday 30 August 2024.
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Revell in all her wisdom and probably after a lot of complaints from us nitwit know-nothing shopkeepers who ordered non or very few at best have decided to cancel the Meteor F3 project and release a all new Meteor F. MK8/ FR9 in 2025!!!
As they say:
"Dear partner,
Concerning: 03860 Gloster Meteor F.3 - First Edition
Version has been switched from "Gloster Meteor F.3" to the new "Gloster Meteor F.8/FR.9 F".
(For the enthusiasts this is a significant change)
As a result we decided to cancel the current backorder for 03860 and introduce the new version under a new item number in early 2025.
Your current backorders for 03860 will be automatically removed from our system. Please make this correction in your system.
With the announcement of the new collection 2025, we'll be able to provide more information on this new item.
We can only applaude to this - belated- change
The Gloster Meteor was the first British jet fighter and the Allies' first operational jet aircraft. The Meteor's development was heavily reliant on its ground-breaking turbojet engines, developed by Sir Frank Whittle and his company, Power Jets Ltd. Development of the aircraft began in 1940, work on the engines had started in 1936. The Meteor first flew in 1943 and commenced operations on 27 July 1944 with 616 Squadron of the Royal Air Force (RAF). Nicknamed by pilots the "Meatbox", although the Meteor was not an aerodynamically advanced aircraft, it proved to be a successful and effective combat fighter
