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Meteor Show – Flying the UK’s first jet fighter

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I began my combat flying in Spitfires for the RAF in early 1941, and did so through 1943. The Spitfires were a delight to fly and I loved to do aerobatics with them, which I enjoyed immensely. But it was during this time frame, in the early summer of 1942, that I had been obliged to leave my bullet-riddled Spitfire Mk VI in the English Channel, about 12 miles out from the White Cliffs of...

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