Meteor meeting its end 1960's

Shame. But don’t forget this sort of training saves lives.

Talking of Meteors meeting their end what’s the story behind the Meteor tail section poking out of the dump at Wycombe Air Park?

Meteor meeting it’s end 1960’s

Sad sight 🙁
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A quick check with the UK serials website at http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WL indicates that the picture shows the demise of Meteor T.7 WL463, last with the RAF Flying College (RAFFC) at Manby. As far as is known, WL463 was delivered 04/10/1952, served with 211 AFS, 211 FTS, 4 FTS, and the RAFFC. It was struck off charge on 14/06/1965, and moved to the Stradishall fire dump, where it perished…

That should give you an approximate date (and a definite location) of this picture

Horrible!

I could have done with that canopy. I bet the aircraft was pretty much complete, too.

It seems no self-respecting fire dump was without a Meteor not too many years ago. How times have changed, thank goodness.

Anon.