Joubert (if it is him) is an Air Marshal (not ACM) & is second from the left. Lloyd is far right.
Bill

103 squadron, Elsham Wolds.
Bill

Steven Bond’s book on the Meteor attributes Letitia III as a F3 of 92 squadron, the personal aircraft of F/O Philip Morton. Could be at Duxford or Lubeck in 1947. Serial not known.
Bill

South Marston, 3 miles to NE of Swindon. The shadow factory here built Stirlings from 1941 & Castle Bromwich used it for Spitfire work. Not sure whether there was an overlap of the two though. Now a car factory (Nissan?)
Bill

The Americans produced several beefy fighter/attack single-engine, contra-rotating prototypes around 1943-45:-
Curtiss XP-60C, XP-62 & XF14C-2
Fisher P-75A
Northrop XP-56
Republic XP-72
Boeing XF8B-1
Rather like the look of the Boeing, a sort of single-engined B-29 crossed with a Skyraider.
Then there’s the twin engined, contra-prop Hughes XF-11 & we know what happened to that.
Bill

“The Secret Years – Flight Testing at Boscombe Down 1939-45” by Tim Mason has several photographs showing angles of the GS sheds at BD and on Page 6 a useful shot from the air. The Boston photo shows “smooth” cowlings making it a Mark III (as W8269/G) whereas BZ201 was a Mark IIIa with Double Cyclone GR-2600-23 engines with individual stub exhausts.
Bill

Well thank you Adrian – made my day. One memory from the flight was that the cabin crew had little metal gold (?) Comet badges on their RAF ties.
Bill (who for today is 16 again).