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By: - 3rd March 2005 at 23:56 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Oh gawd can you change the title to put a date in please. I just laid an egg!
By: - 4th March 2005 at 00:42 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
I wonder if any of you aircraft buffs can throw any light on a Meteor F8 crash in August 1952 at Linton on Ouse, the pilot was Sqdn/ldr Jack Jagger of 92 squadron. I am interested because he was my flight cmdr when I served with 80 squadron. He was a great guy and a brilliant pilot,he once, when doing a loop in a spitfire had a nut from the cockpit floor lock the control column and was forced to land the aircraft using just the trimming tabs. That is only one of the stories I could tell you of him. Are there any ex 80 sqdn bods out there who remembers Jack?
Last Take Off by Colin Cummings shows this as happening on 14 August 1952 and involving Meteor F8, WK657. It places the accident as near RAF Coningsby and says that the pilot was practicing aerobatics culminating in a bunt to the inverted straight and level. He rolled out of the bunt before it was complete and began to lose height before striking the ground, killing some cattle and then disintegrating against a river bank.
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Laurie.
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By: grounded - 3rd March 2005 at 22:43
I wonder if any of you aircraft buffs can throw any light on a Meteor F8 crash in August 1952 at Linton on Ouse, the pilot was Sqdn/ldr Jack Jagger of 92 squadron. I am interested because he was my flight cmdr when I served with 80 squadron. He was a great guy and a brilliant pilot,he once, when doing a loop in a spitfire had a nut from the cockpit floor lock the control column and was forced to land the aircraft using just the trimming tabs. That is only one of the stories I could tell you of him. Are there any ex 80 sqdn bods out there who remembers Jack?