High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Gloster E.1/44 was a British single engined jet fighter design of the Second World War which came about because of low availability of jet engines but was not completed in prototype form until after the war and never entered production. The success of the first British jet aircraft the Gloster E.28/39 led to the design of the twin engined Gloster Meteor jet fighter from 1940 onwards. However in 1942 Rover, who were contracted to produce the Whittle W2 jet engine, were having production problems so the Air Ministry issued a Specification, E.5/42, asking for a design which would use only one engine rather than the two

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