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Post by Airbus A346 on Mar 20, 2018 17:01:45 GMT 1
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Post by Beemer on Mar 20, 2018 17:11:56 GMT 1
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Post by DAVE_C on Mar 20, 2018 17:45:07 GMT 1
On 2-RODS are the pods at the Wong tips for extra fuel?
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Post by Beemer on Mar 20, 2018 17:50:23 GMT 1
On 2-RODS are the pods at the Wong tips for extra fuel? David I assume you meant "wing tips". Beemer.
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Post by vanguard on Mar 20, 2018 17:57:38 GMT 1
On 2-RODS are the pods at the Wong tips for extra fuel? In one word,yes Have a look at the left wing tip/tank as you can see the filler cap
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2018 22:44:35 GMT 1
With all the justifiable excitement about the Meteor visit, I thought I'd just add a photo of a previous visit from the 60s of a previous example
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Post by ronturner on Mar 22, 2018 8:54:06 GMT 1
A bit of related trivia.
When I moved to Malmesbury in Wiltshire in 1972 I came into contact with a certain Eddie Brown, who worked in quality control at the company I had joined. (E. K Cole and Company, known as EKCO. later to be part of PYE and then Philips.) Who remembers all those names?
Anyway, Eddie was a wartime AID** man, as were many at the time. He had a son Paul and when he was 5, for a birthday treat, I took him flying in my 172 G-AXVB. It was his first flight. Eddie and his son, now about 15, were part of a preservation group who got their hands on this Meteor and stored it at Yatesbury, not too far away, for restoration. I saw it many times.(But never to see it fly.) I know they worked on it for years and not sure exactly where it went after that, but fly it eventually did.
Paul worked for me in two companies I subsequently moved to. One we travelled up to Harrow every day from Wiltshire. I had a company car and he loved driving it, so I had a driver as well as an assistant. Later he worked for me in my own company. We discussed at lot of aviation stuff. We flew together often. He was, and is, a keen photographer.
When Kemble got up and running as a civilian aerodrome Paul found himself part of the management team and was often in the Tower as FISO. He moved to Coventry this year where I believe he is head FIS now that they have gone to AFIS instead of ATC. Its partly due to him and his dad that the "meatbox" was saved to fly now. One of his jobs on Tuesday was to say goodbye to "his" Meteor, as it took off from Coventry.
** AID, Minisry of Aviation, Aeronautical Inspection Directorate. The plant at sleepy little Malmesbury was, during the war, top secret location for the development and production of Radar systems, moved there by ECKO from London. It was located in an old mansion with farm attached, with all the buildings used for Engineering and production, and the farm used for produce for the canteen. One of these days I am going to write about my time there from 1972 to 1988. Wonderful years. (By the way, this same little town on the edge of the Cotswolds is now headquarters of the Dyson empire.)
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Post by viscount on Mar 22, 2018 10:22:45 GMT 1
WA709, Gloster Meteor T.7 visited 14th September 1961, routing Boscombe Down to Warton. Nice shot, Barry.
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Post by Beemer on Mar 23, 2018 19:57:51 GMT 1
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Post by wadoki on Mar 26, 2018 16:02:30 GMT 1
I've just got around to reading Ron's reminiscences re the Meatbox.Fascinating stuff. There's a book about the wartime development of radar in rural Wiltshire needs writing......over to you Ron! It will be way more interesting than the history of Dyson's high-end 'hoovers'.
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