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T7 & F4 Meteors at Tunisia on delivery to Egyptian Air Force (Norman Haywood)
This rare picture was spotted by H vd Mortel in the Neterlands on RAF Days - Norman Haywood it is the first image I have seen of a Meteor in Egyptian Air Force markings, the best guess is that it was snapped in Tunisia in December 1949 and captured the first two Meteors, a T7 (coded 1400) and F4 on delivery to the EAF. Thanks to Robert Haywood for permission to use the picture and to Erwin for finding it. If you have a great photo of a meteor or a related subject, then send it to us. Please get permission first if you don't own the photograph.
News
23rd March 2009:
One of the Meteor Flight's spare airframes WL405 now has a new owner, Martin Garrett has shipped it to Bruntingthorpe where it will be reassembled for static display. You can follow his progress here To the left you will also see my experimental navigator, I'll be adding this to other pages over the next few weeks.
2nd March 2009:
Some new content on the development of early jet engines such as the Whittle W1 & Goblin. This is complex area although I feel that insufficient credit has been given to Whittle and Ohain in Germany for their pioneering work. The content needs further work but before I add any more I need to sort out the navigation around the site which is starting to be troublesome with 100+ pages of content. I have been promised some updated photos of WA591 at Kemble by Meteor Flight operations but nothing has arrived yet.
16th February, 2009:
I have now restored the WA591 rebuild pages, there are still four; Center Section, Forward fuselage & Cockpit, Other structures & Early Days. The pages on early jet engines like the W1 & W2B Welland that powered the F. Mk 1 Meteor have also been added, these are new pages although the research goes back many years. The model galleries and models and books pages are also back although you have to get to these via the site map for the moment.