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Sorry for the off topic but here’s a couple more pics that float my boat


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Wayne


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I was probably 4 or 5 years old and I was in the garden with my mum when this big silver aircraft flew overhead,
No propellers just an eerie whistling,
At the time we lived just a couple of miles from Hatfield, It was the prototype Comet on its first flight out of De Havilland's.

I know how old you are Shaun give or take a year
That was 27 July 1949.

I’m pretty sure I have a letter at work (RR) from the head of the Air Ministry saying that our first jet engines had engaged the enemy, dated 1943
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Wayne


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My birthday was 4 days later

midlife306 wrote:I’m pretty sure I have a letter at work (RR) from the head of the Air Ministry saying that our first jet engines had engaged the enemy, dated 1943
Cheers
Wayne

The comet was a commercial plane dear boy

Yes I know young man


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Oh, so you were just expanding the knowledge, cool

Wayne I am quoting from William Green's "Fighters" Volume 2,
The Meteor was the first jet aircraft to enter squadron service with the RAF and the ONLY Allied jet aircraft to see operational service during WW2.
DG202/G with 2 Rover B.23s rated at 1526 ibs static thrust made the Meteors first flight on JULY 24 1943,
Number 616 Squadron RAF received its first Meteor 1s (EE213 and EE214) on JULY 21 1944,
They were non flying examples that were used for training purposes,
5 fully effective Meteor 1s fitted with Rolls Royce W.2B/23 Welland 1s each rated at 1,700 ilbs Static Thrust were delivered to 616 Squadron 2 days later,
On AUGUST 4 1944 Meteor 1 (EE216) scored the FIRST confirmed victory by a British Jet Fighter when after its guns jammed it destroyed a V1 Missile by tipping it over with its wingtip causing it to crash.
So not 1943 but 1944 but they were RR engines

Hmmm, I may be mistaken on the year, I’ll dig it out & post it up tomorrow


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