post -war piston prop twins were lethal
So were jets. The Gloster Meteor wasn't called the 'Meatbox' for nothing. I remember a familiarisation flight where we were flying at about 500 ft. over solid status with a couple of thousand feet underneath it.
"Carry out a low level circuit but leave the airbrakes out."
So I did to the book apart from the airbrakes.
We were almost vertical as we went through the stratus.