Gloster Meteor Jet Fighter - WW2 fighter - late War.

[Rich46yo]

There is no question the Meteor meets the requirements of inclusion into the game. I couldnt give a dang about jets but I'd never say it wasnt a legitimate candidate.

[HornetUK]

Tell that to the pilots that were risking their lives shooting these things down from inside the blast radius

and of course all the people places like London! or are we saying saving civilian lives not a worthy considerate?

[Devil 505]

  May I ask what the inclussion requirements are?   The only thing I've ever seen was no 1 off's or prototypes.


       

Serial production (I.E. no prototypes) and used in combat.

[morfiend]

Serial production (I.E. no prototypes) and used in combat.

  Funny I've been around for a couple of weeks and I've never seen HTC say anything except no 1 offs or prototypes.

  Everything else is just heresay,please find a single post from anyone in HTC that states rules for inclussion.



   

[Karnak]

  Funny I've been around for a couple of weeks and I've never seen HTC say anything except no 1 offs or prototypes.

  Everything else is just heresay,please find a single post from anyone in HTC that states rules for inclussion.



   

They have said that they would like it to have seen combat.

The wording on that doesn't make it a hard rule though, just a preference.

[Shifty]

I'd love to see the Meteor added one day. I'd also love to see this added to the game. Tempest kill= combat.

[Tank-Ace]

  Funny I've been around for a couple of weeks and I've never seen HTC say anything except no 1 offs or prototypes.

  Everything else is just heresay,please find a single post from anyone in HTC that states rules for inclussion.



   

You don't listen so good, do you?

[Lucifer]

Meteors were deployed on continent in january 1945.
They were only used for some air to ground attacks.
Pilots had orders to NOT fly over enemy territory, as allies didnt want one of them to get engaged in a dogfight, during which it could have
been shot down and Germans could have studied it.

Chasing V1s is different of a dogfight, as they couldnt fight back. It was -almost- like drones used today by air forces to be shot by pilots as a training.

Well wikipedia says that is wrong

"The Meteor was initially used to counter the V-1 flying bomb threat. 616 Squadron Meteors saw action for the first time on 27 July 1944, when three aircraft were active over Kent. These were the first operational jet combat missions for the Meteor and for the Royal Air Force. After some problems, especially with jamming guns, the first two V1 "kills" were made on 4 August. By war's end, Meteors accounted for 14 flying bombs."

[HornetUK]

at the end of the day they were used in world war 2 and flew missions which they could have been killed in because they warhead could blow up in there faces. They stopped the enemy's we pones from reaching there targets.

[danny76]

Meteors were deployed on continent in january 1945.
They were only used for some air to ground attacks.
Pilots had orders to NOT fly over enemy territory, as allies didnt want one of them to get engaged in a dogfight, during which it could have
been shot down and Germans could have studied it.

Chasing V1s is different of a dogfight, as they couldnt fight back. It was -almost- like drones used today by air forces to be shot by pilots as a training.

Exactly like target drones-but for the 850kg of Amatol which could  detonate and kill the intercepting pilot!
What a thoroughly gormless statement

[Karnak]

I'd love to see the Meteor added one day. I'd also love to see this added to the game. Tempest kill= combat.

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I think the He162 is in pretty much the same category as the Meteor, though the Tempest kill is more impressive than the Storch kill.

[Shifty]

I think the He162 is in pretty much the same category as the Meteor, though the Tempest kill is more impressive than the Storch kill.

I dunno those Storches can be pretty slippery.  

The 162 would have an extremely low fuel load too. I actually met a 162 pilot when I was stationed in Georgia of all places. He and his wifr had retired to Valdosta GA.
In the photo below he is the guy on the far left. Hauptmann Wolfgang (Gunther) Luwig.

[Karnak]

I dunno those Storches can be pretty slippery.  

It was so slippery that it got on the ground and the crew got out before the Meteor could get back to it so it doesn't fully count as an air-to-air kill, just a destruction of an aircraft on the ground.

Still, functionally the Meteor forced it to land and then destroyed it.

[Shifty]

It was so slippery that it got on the ground and the crew got out before the Meteor could get back to it so it doesn't fully count as an air-to-air kill, just a destruction of an aircraft on the ground.

Still, functionally the Meteor forced it to land and then destroyed it.

In the 8th AF they call that a kill. 

[morfiend]

You don't listen so good, do you?

  I listen just fine,I've also been around alot longer than you,if fact you were in diapers when I started flying sims,or likely not even born yet!

  Show me 1 post that states rules for inclusion,go back to 2000 on the forum and you will not find 1,none other than the Pyro make those decisions.


    But then I'd expect no less from you mister expert......