[Milsurplus] Aircraft ID request

[Ryan Gill]

At 3:21 PM -0500 7/16/08, Mike Andrews W5EGO wrote:
>Location and other stuff about it unknown. I just got mailed the URL.
>It's _weird_-looking, and I don't think I'd be happy about riding up
>front.
>
><http://www.kmrds.com/public/Unusual_Aircraft/Slide15.JPG>

That's looking like a Gloster Meteor.

Yep, I'm right. (Huzza the Empire!)

And that's the 'Prone Pilot' test aircraft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloster_Meteor_F8_%22Prone_Pilot%22
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