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Website Updates

24th January 2010

I've added some new photos at WA591 at Kemble after an enjoyable afternoon visiting the aircraft. Its been over two years since I've been able to make the trip and the progress is amazing, it has its engines and they are finishing off tests of the fuel system ahead of ground runs and taxi trials. I've also been reworking the jet age pages starting with events in Germany which meant a new page for the HE280 and have or will be rewritting almost all the others and linking them into the new navigation and site map.

12th January 2010

The new navigation has been rolledout across many pages and many links added and updated. There are new and updated service history and image pages for a number of survivors including WD592 at Edwards Air Force base and WS792 at Brighouse bay. In time you'll see history pages for all survivors but its time consuming to research these and they won't appear in any particular order. The site map has also been significantly updated and will take you to many new and updated pages.

22nd December 2009

A full review of the site has been started with updates to the html title, description and keywords for all the pages. The site gets plenty of traffic but analysis of some usage data found a fair number of broken links and some inbound links that no longer worked because the content has been reorganised.

14th December 2009

A new home page image, second one of an Egyptian Air Force meteor. I've moved the previous image to a new archive page which I'll use going forward as a history of photos featured on the home page. I still have things to work out regarding the gallery pages which don't work very well at the moment and are difficult to update.

23rd March 2009

I can now report the move of WL405 to Bruntingthorpe, the new owner Martin Garrett sent us some great pictures of the move and we will be following the progress of his restoration with interest. The projects pages have been reworked and feature a new experimental navigation system.

11th March 2009

Another gap filled, we now have a photo of the cockpit section of NF11, WM367. Its as Norwich Aviation Museum but is in need of some serious attention. I also have significantly expanded the number of survivors in Brazil which has now increased to at least six.

2nd March 2009

I have been rewriting and adding to the jet age pages and have inserted in individual pages for a number of early jets and engines such as the Whittle W1 and Halford H1/ Goblin, I still need to work on the pages and many more need to be added but its very demanding to filter out good information from bad in order to write an accurate picture. The next phase now will be to sort out the navigation properly which will take some thought.

16th Feb 2009

A big update, all the WA591 project pages have now been restored, some of the text still needs some work but there are a few photos that didn't originally get posted. There is also some new historical content as I begin to put in the pages on early jet engines such as the Whittle W1 which powered the Gloster Pioneer (E28/39) and the W2B Welland which was the powerplant of the F. Mk 1 Meteor. The model pages and galleries have also returned which you can access from the site map until I can spend some more time on the site navigation.

23rd Jan 2009

The first of the pages for WA591 has returned with loads of images of the rebuild of the center section, still needs some more work on the text. I have also restored the gallery pages and the personal galleries contributed by Nigel Ramsay, Bill Jordon, TIm Kendrick and Dave Vernon.

8th Jan 2009

A fair amount of progress in the last few days, at least fifteen new pages dealing with history of engine and jet aircraft development and some improvements to the navigation. I have now got about 80 pages on the site (not all accessible!) but still have at least 40 more to do so if you find that some links don't work or images are missing them please be patient. The pages with the images of WA591's restoration are next in the queue although I may restore the gallery pages first if that is easier.

3rd Jan 2009

I have worked on the pages for Belgium, Denmark, Egypt etc and fixed a few layout issues and imported the image files. I am also beginning to restore the pages on early engine development and the first jet aircraft such as the HE178, you'll need to be a bit patient here as I'm also rewriting the text and breaking up the content as I go into smaller easily digested pieces which can be time-consuming.

27th Dec 2008

The site has been redeveloped as a Lotus Domino database, the majority of the original content is still here although many pages have been rewritten to align with the sites new focus as a resource for Meteor buffs. It will continue to track the various projects underway to restore Meteor airframes including WA591 although it is up to each of those groups to keep me informed of progress.