Originally Posted by 26er
1955, 34 Squadron, Tangmere. We had a Meteor F8 WF742 which was very twisted and no amount of twitching could straighten it. Eventually all the trim tabs were set to zero and I offered to fly it to the MU at Aston Down. As I accelerated down the runway the left wing began to go down and once airborne I was unable to fly wings level above 180 knots. The landing was unusual. God knows what happened to it though it turned out that a mate was the unit test pilot there and he was not grateful for my gift.
Probably didn't make too many flights after you delivered it to Aston Down, as it's listed being given 7320M on 27/02/1956 at Halton, and SOC on 02/06/1960.