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Forum: Military Aviation

4th Feb 2016, 09:21

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Meteor Accidents - 1953

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Posted By 26er

Getting away from the Meteor a bit, I remember a...

Getting away from the Meteor a bit, I remember a cunning mod to the Goblin fitted to our Vampire 5s at Tarrant Rushton (1953). Some aircraft had experienced trouble with the aneroid capsule of the...

Forum: Military Aviation

4th Mar 2015, 08:03

Replies: 147

Meteor Accidents - 1953

Views: 87,599

Posted By 26er

I last flew a Meteor in 1969, but had...

I last flew a Meteor in 1969, but had continuously driven them since AFS in 1951. As I often checked guys out on the beast, in later years I would point out my personal max speed of 400kts, not the...

Forum: Military Aviation

15th Aug 2011, 08:58

Replies: 147

Meteor Accidents - 1953

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Posted By 26er

Henry, Certainly could have been but did...

Henry,

Certainly could have been but did they have night fighters there? My recollection is that Strad was a Meteor T7/F8 AFS.

In 1957 ish Fighter Command used to publish a flight safety...

Forum: Military Aviation

14th Aug 2011, 10:30

Replies: 147

Meteor Accidents - 1953

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Posted By 26er

Getting back to the original contributions about...

Getting back to the original contributions about Meteors does anyone remember the chap reputed to have been given both a "red endorsment" and a "green" for the same flight in a NF11? It seems he took...

Forum: Military Aviation

30th Jan 2010, 08:01

Replies: 147

Meteor Accidents - 1953

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Posted By 26er

Probably all Meteors in Korea were a bit of a...

Probably all Meteors in Korea were a bit of a handful, being outclassed by all other types. However it was normal for RAF squadrons in the fifties to fly with ventral tanks at all times and I can't...

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