Uploaded November 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago

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The Gloster Meteor was Britain's first jet fighter and the first jet to be used in the Second World War. But despite its pioneering achievements, it has a legacy of fatal accidents which have largely been forgotten in popular memory. This is a story about just one of those accidents, the ghost which is said to haunt it, and the Meteor's complex post-war legacy.

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