Meteors & pressurisation .... or lack thereof
A chum of mine in the USMC served on exchange at RAF Horsham St Faiths then RAF Coltishall. We had a useful Station Flight where we could get extra flying on aircraft ranging from an Anson to a Meteor NF-14.
My chum wrote yesterday in response to this Pprune Meteor reminiscence blog
I remember well the Meteor 7 and 8…I liked the climb and turn in them! The 7 was prehistoric with no pressurization! They were both fun to fly and had good climb rate…
In those early days I checked into the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing at Cherry Point, NC in 1957 as a 2nd Lt right out of flight school…In 1956 they’d lost 80 aircraft but I forget how many pilots…All the US air forces must have lost close to 1,000 between them that year! SF
This raises an interesting question:what other types of jet aircraft did the RAF have in service that had NO pressurisation?