RAF Gloster Meteor attempts to set a new air speed record (1945)

GAUMONT BRITISH NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Preparations for the Gloster Meteor, the first British Royal Air Force operational jet fighter warplane, prior to the attempt to break the world air speed record of over 600 miles per hour Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: Preparations for the Speed Record Bid ENGLAND: Herne Bay: Kent: EXT AEROPLANES - English Preparations for World Air Speed Record at Herne Bay. Shots of Photographic & Timing apparatus. Floats in sea marking course. Shots of the “Gloster Meteor on ground. Test Pilot Eric Greenwood & Goup Capt. Wilson both attempting to break the record. Plane taking off on trial, in air, landing. GREENWOOD. Eric. Standing w. Group Capt. Wilson in front of the Gloster Meteor “Britannia. at Manston Aerodrome. HURNE BAY. (KENT). For World Air Speed Record at. WILSON. Group Captain. Standing w. Eric Greenwood by G