Ultimate Guide To The Gloster Gladiator: The RAFs Last Biplane Fighter

Sorry, folks, that was too easy! Given that this is an article about an airplane bearing the name “Gladiator,” you know I just had to cite one of the most memorable lines from the most popular aviation-related comedy film of all-time, the Zucker Brothers’ 1980 classic “Airplane!“co-starring the late great Peter Graves and Leslie Nielsen (both gone but not forgotten) amongst other members of an all-star cast. I suppose we could just as easily segue from there to Russell Crowe’s “Are you not entertained?” line from 2000’s “Gladiator.”