Meteors with Props

Spinners · December 21, 2022

Gloster Meteor F.Mk.V - No.74 Squadron, RAF Fighter Command, 1946

With a forecast shortage of Rolls-Royce Derwent jet engines the designers at Gloster's quickly introduced the Meteor F.Mk.V an interim design powered by two Bristol Centaurus 18-cylinder, air-cooled, two-row radial engine each enclosed in an extremely neat installation and utilising direct fuel injection to produce 2,750 h.p. per engine. Entering service with No.74 Squadron in the Spring of 1946 the Meteor F.Mk.V was used to combat the 'tip and run' attacks by Luftwaffe Blohm & Voss P 170 fast bombers in the Summer of 1946 before being transferred to RAF South-East Asia Command as part of 'Tiger Force'.

Skin Credit: Charles

bazillius · December 21, 2022

COOL! I like this Meteor. Very funny. Super what if story

Cyberspy · December 21, 2022

Nice work. They actually look good with props.

Trotski · December 21, 2022

you could base some nice Steampunk designs of that. Crimson Skies !!!

bazillius · December 21, 2022

Yey, i will fly this aircraft if you upload it. Props integrated like.. like.. like native borned with this aircraft :biggrin:

Wrench · December 21, 2022

Ah HA!!!! We've caught Spinner out on this one!!! :biggrin:

The Trent Meteor was a real plane (tm); albeit a one-off, but it did exist and is not a what if!!! LOL!!! The only what-if part is that it didn't go into production and service. As for this Centaurs version ... yah, I'll concede it's a WI

For a DAT bird, this one looks pretty good

Spinners · December 21, 2022

23 minutes ago, Wrench said:

Ah HA!!!! We've caught Spinner out on this one!!!

I'm fully aware of the Trent Meteor thank you!

As an aviation mad teenager in the 1970's our local library had just two aircraft books that I took out repeatedly, 'The Gloster Meteor' by Edward Shacklady and 'Gloster Aircraft Since 1917' by Derek James (aka the Putnam book).