A.W. Meteor NF Mk.14 "The Last of Night Fighters’"

The first operational British jet-powered fighter was the Gloster Meteor.
Following the wartime Meteor Mk.Is and Mk.III, the post-war Mk.4 version was produced with much better performance.
On 7 November 1945, a world speed record attempt was made with two Meteor Mk.3s converted to Mk.4 standard.
The RAF High Speed Flight Meteors, serial numbers EE454 and EE455, were flown by RAF Group Captain Hugh Joseph Wilson and Gloster Chief Test Pilot Eric Stanley Greenwood.
Wilson, flying the camouflaged EE454, was a few miles faster than Greenwood in the (almost) all-yellow EE455, who improved the record to 975.68 mph.
Less than a year later, Captain E. M. (Teddy) Donaldson set a new record of 991.33 km/h in a Meteor with serial number EE549, and in January 1947 the same machine also improved the speed record between Paris and London.
The last generation of Meteor fighters was manufactured by Armstrong Whitworth.
The Meteor NF Mk.14 Night / All Weather Jet Fighters were designed as a much needed replacement for the piston engine powered Mosquitoes. In the 1950s, Soviet bombers armed with nuclear weapons posed a very real threat. The final version of this all-weather fighter, the Mk.14, introduced many improvements to its airframe based on the experience gained from operating the earlier Meteor versions.
Compared to these, the Mk.14 featured a much simplified, rearward-sliding canopy without a frame. The RAF operated this last Meteor version from both home and foreign bases.
 
Plastic model kit

• The decal sheet contains markings for four aircraft, including a full set of stencils
• There are marking options for three RAF aircraft, one of which flew from bases in Malaya, the other two were based in the UK.
• The fourth colour option is a French aircraft that was used by the CEV test centre

scale 1:72

unbuilt / unpainted