Gloster Meteor

[londonmet]

BBC News - Gloster Meteor T7 G-BWMF lands at Coventry Airport (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-14031264)

Please can someone with knowledge of this aircraft explain what the smoke it seen around the engines when it taxied in?

[Geehovah]

Looked like steam on a hot, wet jet pipe to me. Interested to hear from the experts who flew it.

[Lyneham Lad]

Just caught the tail-end of a comment on BBC News 24 that "some lagging had come loose, allowing hot gases to overheat the paintwork..."

[zetec2]

Guess "some lagging around the jet pipe" means the refraisal blanket ?. PH.

[GreenKnight121]

Having been at Coventry yesterday and talked to some of the classic flight people it would seem that a gasket or seal in the area of the jetpipe has moved and allowed exhaust gasses to escape. This explains the smoke you can see in the photos and why the arrival didn't go quite to plan. It ended up being towed in from the taxiway after shutting down with the firemen in attendance. The original plan was for it to attend RIAT next week and then go for paint but that may obviously change

John

Meteor T7 to Coventry Tue July 5th - Key Publishing Ltd Aviation Forums (http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=110200)

[dctyke]

Whilst on the subject, T7 WH 132 is still in reasonable nick (in large bits) on a car park at the back of Leconfield. It needs rescuing, as the army have no interest whatsoever!

[Blacksheep]

When we left Changi, the Meteors of 1154TF Flight were offered to the RSAF for use in training anti-aircraft gunners. The RSAF declined, thinking as they did with much of our equipment, they would be left behind anyway. If they had offered even S$1:00 each the offer could have been accepted - when withdrawing from an overseas base or territory, the rules said we could sell arms and equipment to allies or destroy them to prevent them falling into the hands of any potential 'enemy'. Anyhow, these perfectly airworthy Meteors were chopped to pieces where they stood. :(

[Fareastdriver]

Anyhow, these perfectly airworthy Meteors were chopped to pieces where they stood.

Also from what I remember the racks on the side of their hangar were stacked with Meteor spares, flying surfaces ,canopies, oleos, everything.