1950's Dinky Airplane 70e (732) Gloster Meteor Diecast Made In England by Meccano

1947 saw four new Dinky planes: the Gloster Meteor jet fighter (a "no-brainer", as there hadn't been jet aircraft before WW2, and the Meteor was British), along with a couple of largely-forgotten propeller-driven airliners (two- and four-prop), and the Tempest 2 propellor-driven fighter aircraft, which again, is nowadays largely forgotten.

Dinky were in a difficult position regarding model aircraft over the next three decades, trying to present a reasonably wide range of different plane types (as they had before the war, while the trend in the aircraft industry was for a smaller number of larger companies producing fewer designs, and where a plane type didn't necessarily have a British version.