Meteor crash 1946?
Bit of a long shot, but the fantastic knowledge of Proon might be able to help.
I was talking to a WW2 veteren at the weekend, navigator on Wellingtons in the last couple of years of the war. He was based at Lichfield, but one day (1946, might have been '45?) was at Bruntingthorpe. He and some fellows were blasting off out of date very pistol cartridges when they heard a noise they'd never heard before. A Meteor taxied out of a hangar to the runway, and took off. None of them had vere seen anything like it before.
Two weeks later, the same pilot was displaying the aeroplane at a private garden party and crashed, fatally.
Not much to go on I realise, but anyone know who the pilot was and the occasion at which the Meteor crashed?
SSD