Correct Anon.
Meteor NF13 WM308 on 30th Dec 1953

Aha the famous “glue joint”. I have always wondered what that was. See this extract from a piece I did for the http://www.mossie.org website

“I do not understand the technicalities but there was a tolerance on a glue joint which was measured periodically and aircraft were scrapped if this tolerance was exceeded. The M.U. however was getting short of replacements so a technical conference decided that the tolerance could be increased to keep us going, but after another month or so there was again a shortage of aircraft, and a further technical conference decided that perhaps this tolerance was not so important after all and could be ignored! “

This refers to the NF36 at the end of its use in Egypt in 1953

We even got that problem in Egypt

Andy, you have hit the nail on the head.

Or should that be screw, it is alleged that the Mossie had as many brass screws in its wing as frush has fevvers, firty fousand.

Many thanks for keeping us entertained and informed throughout the year. Also great photography, think I will chuck my camera in the river.

Firebex. Your last paragraph seems to me to be the most logical way to proceed.

I would dearly love to see a Mossie fly again in this country, having enjoyed/endured* several uncomfortable/unforgettable* hours in various examples.
* delete as required

I would guess there were/are many incidences of injury or worse caused by spent ordnance. I well remember watching a Spitfire chasing a German fighter at low level and firing, no doubt in desperation, out of range. We watched his tracers lazily curl into the roof of a bungalow some distance from us. We hiked over there to find some 5 or 6 rounds had made quite a mess of the tiled roof.
One night a 40mm? Bofors shell fell in the road near us and I was horrified to see that a piece of shrapnel had gone clean through a wooden fence paling which was about half an inch thick.
Such incidents were doubtless repeated thousands of times.