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[Thomas_Mac]

A Meteor should be flying from there shortly , so that’s one you’ll be able to tick off your list.

"shortly" as is P-59 Airacoment "shortly", or actually "shortly"??

Neat. Which Meteor is this? Would like to see one fly. Soft spot for early jets.

Meteor acquisition is mentioned here about 50 seconds in. Not sure which airframe, can't be too many candidates?

[martin_sam_2000]

A Meteor should be flying from there shortly , so that’s one you’ll be able to tick off your list.

"shortly" as is P-59 Airacoment "shortly", or actually "shortly"??

Neat. Which Meteor is this? Would like to see one fly. Soft spot for early jets.

Meteor acquisition is mentioned here about 50 seconds in. Not sure which airframe, can't be too many candidates?

My guess is the one from the Detroit area. The driving force behind that collection was killed in the vampire(or venom) crash a while ago. Need to get out and see whatever one it is fly one day. Chino is high on my bucket list.

Sean

[Firebird]

My guess is the one from the Detroit area. The driving force behind that collection was killed in the vampire(or venom) crash a while ago.

Would be my guess as well.
Its Meteor T.7 WA591, that had undergone a 16 year restoration back to airworthy in the UK, becoming the worlds oldest airworthy jet, when it took to the air for its post restoration flight in the UK in 2011 at Kemble. She flew on the UK circuit for a few years until being sold in 2015. It took a while to sell and then get transported to the USA for the new owner, only flying in the USA a few weeks before the new owner was killed in the Venom.

[Mike]

A Meteor should be flying from there shortly , so that’s one you’ll be able to tick off your list.

"shortly" as is P-59 Airacoment "shortly", or actually "shortly"??

Neat. Which Meteor is this? Would like to see one fly. Soft spot for early jets.

It’s the T7 that was flying in the UK with Classic Flight, and was then sold to the late Marty Tibbitts shortly before he lost his life in his DH Venom on the way to Oshkosh a couple of years back.

[marine air]

There has been a Gloster Meteor at Chino previously. It might have even been a part of the P
O
F collection. It was there in the 1970’s , a two seater and painted white civilian. It was in an episode of “Wonderwoman” and I believe, the “ Six Million Dollar Man.”

[Hooligan2]

That might have been N94749 which was based at Mojave from around 1975. I think it was white. It left Biggin Hill on delivery just before my first ever visit in June 1975!

[Mike]

That sounds like Al Letcher’s Mojave-based NF11, now in the Edwards AFB Museum.

[C VEICH]

Mojave during August of 1984.

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[JohnB]

That might have been N94749 which was based at Mojave from around 1975. I think it was white. It left Biggin Hill on delivery just before my first ever visit in June 1975!

Yes, it's NF11. I think it's now at the Edwards museum.
Back in the 70s FLYING magazine had an article on it and the Vampirr at Mojave. One of the owners...the Vampire was owned by Al Lechtur or similar.

Here's an old thread on the topic...
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=56340

[Chris Brame]

Another shot (double exposed with what looks like the Riverside Raceway grandstand) from the late '70s:

[marine air]

Kind of interesting that the last company building allied biplane fighters( the Gladiator) would be chosen to build the first Allied jet fighter. No wonder the jet intakes on the Meteor are fabric covered!

[JohnB]

Kind of interesting that the last company building allied biplane fighters( the Gladiator) would be chosen to build the first Allied jet fighter. No wonder the jet intakes on the Meteor are fabric covered!

A bit like the U.S. Navy giving the contract for its first jet fighter to a company that has never put an aircraft into series production...McDonnell.
Why? Nothing better to do...and they looked at the problem without preconceptions.