who told us all about the 'experimental' Prone Position Gloster Meteor, where the 'experimental' pilot was housed in a 'forward' cockpit, added onto the nose of a 'standard' Meteor, the last production aircraft actually
One of the test pilots on the prone Meteor was Eric Franklin DFC AFC. Eric was later a test pilot with A.V. Roe at Woodford, Cheshire when I was there as a RAAF pilot in 1966/67. Eric did my conversion to the RAAF HS 748 VIP version which I ferried back to Canberra. Eric Franklin was a gentleman and a first class instructor.