Gloster Meteor question (1 Viewer)

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hawkeye2an

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When I was on my first round of model building (30+ years ago) a guy in our local club brought a Gloster Meteor in that had an extra PAD on the starboard wingtip, he said it was added for tipping V-1s. I have never run across any photos of this. Does anyone know if this happened or was he just full of sh............aving cream?
 
Don't know about any pad on Meteor wings, especially the Mk1 and MkIII. On the rare occassions Meteors 'tipped' V1's (they were mostly shot down), the wing didn't actually touch - it was the turbulent air between the metor and V1 wings which caused the V1 to go unstable, upsetting the gyro, leading to a premature dive.
Spitfire MkXIV's and Tempest MkV's also 'tipped' V1's occassionally, and neither had any wing 'pad'.
 

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