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Couldn't agree more about the Bev. It climbed,cruised and descended at somewhere around 150 kts and as long as you didn't want to take the cargo very far, it could carry enormous loads for those times and had a very good short field performace to boot. It did tend to get through Centauri engines though and was reckoned to be the best petrol cooled, oil burning aircraft in service coupled with jokes about removing ASIs and fitting calendars.
I can't agree that the Meteor T7 was useless. It did a damn fine job if treated right and I didn't find the rudder too small. But then its horses for courses isn't it. No doubt about the nicest I flew. A brand new K Albert!
The A was more lively but once you start messing about with an aeroplane, more fuel , bigger engines, greater payload - you always loose out in another area..