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Lovely bird. I take it this was an advanced trainer for transitioning to more state-of-the-art aircraft? I remember building a model of the Mk 1 single-seater with four 20mm cannons; the kit came with a to-scale V-1 buzz bomb.
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Coventry Airport. π
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Thank you, but I was more meaning if you were on the field or in the tower?
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Were you in the tower to get one this level and side on?
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No, I was on the ground at the time of shooting. I've had similar questions asking me if my photographs were shot air to air before, but that isn't the case either. Often when shooting aircraft with telephoto lenses, you get the illusion that you are somehow on the same level as the aircraft. It's caused by a combination of telephoto compression and cropping. The compression removes the feeling of distance, and cropping to focus on the aircraft tends to remove the feeling that you are looking up at a subject.Β The aircraft in question here was taking off, so she was fairly low anyway, but that combined with the other factors, it tricks the eye a little bit.
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I saw where it was just short of full retraction.
It is great in giving the impression of a shot in formation.
As usual, excellent work.
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The Royal Navy did indeed operate Meteors, though they were shore based and used purely for training purposes, not in the air defence or fleet defence role.
They only operated a handful of variants, those being the T.7 as seen here in my photograph and also the TT.20 which was a modification of the Armstrong Whitworth built NF.11 but built for use as a target tug. This being said, I do believe that a couple of early Meteor Mk.3s were converted for carrier deck trials at some point prior to them taking the trainers on charge, so the Meteor did at least carry out some carrier deck landings.
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Thanks Daniel. It was a handsome aircraft.
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Wikipedia lists 12 NAS squadrons as possible operators of one or more examples of a Meteor variant, which surprised me since I've never heard of a "Sea Meteor".
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Must have been shore based. I've never heard of any on carriers.
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Likewise; I'm not even aware of a prototype with carrier adaptions.
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