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Offline brady

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« on: April 16, 2003, 06:58:02 PM »
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« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2003, 07:06:10 PM »
Meteor prototype (note yellow P in circle on fuselage) from before they had the jet engines ready ;)

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« Reply #2 on: April 16, 2003, 07:15:07 PM »
It is the Trent Meteor, EE227, a standard Meteor I, used by R-R to test the RB50 Trent turboprop engines. First flow 20 Sept. 1945 and scrapped in 1948 when the testing concluded.

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« Reply #3 on: April 16, 2003, 08:12:34 PM »
You're both wrong, it's what you get when you cross a Mosquito with a Spitfire :)

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« Reply #4 on: April 16, 2003, 10:59:36 PM »
it has the nose of a vampire.... cept props hmm nvrmind

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« Reply #5 on: April 17, 2003, 05:05:13 PM »
Trent Meteor, it is:)