Other performance-related records were broken in categories including flight time endurance, rate of climb, and speed. In 1946, this record was broken when a Meteor F.4 reached a speed of 616 miles per hour (991 km/h). On 7 November 1945, the first official airspeed record by a jet aircraft was set by a Meteor F.3 at 606 miles per hour (975 km/h). The Meteor was also used for research and development purposes and to break several aviation records. Specialised variants of the Meteor were developed for use in photographic aerial reconnaissance and as night fighters. Several other operators such as Argentina, Egypt and Israel flew Meteors in later regional conflicts. Meteors of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) fought in the Korean War. The Meteor saw limited action in the Second World War. Thousands of Meteors were built to fly with the RAF and other air forces and remained in use for several decades. Several major variants of the Meteor incorporated technological advances during the 1940s and 1950s. Gloster's 1946 civil Meteor F.4 demonstrator G-AIDC was the first civilian-registered jet aircraft in the world. The Meteor was not a sophisticated aircraft in its aerodynamics, but proved to be a successful combat fighter. The Meteor first flew in 1943 and commenced operations on 27 July 1944 with No. Development of the aircraft began in 1940, although work on the engines had been under way since 1936.
The Meteor's development was heavily reliant on its ground-breaking turbojet engines, pioneered by Frank Whittle and his company, Power Jets Ltd.
The Gloster Meteor was the first British jet fighter and the Allies' only jet aircraft to engage in combat operations during the Second World War. Two in use as testbed aircraft (one with civil registration)
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