bei der recherche zu raf meteor-unfällen in/ um gütersloh bin ich auf einen eintrag in einem piloten-forum gestoßen, der zeigt, dass damals wohl doch einiges anders war. es geht um das ausleihen von fliegern über das wochenende:

One bitterly cold winter Saturday morning at Gutersloh, (The) "Porky" RVA Munro (RIP) asked me to drop him to the hangar in my car as he wanted to go to a Ball at one of the "clutch" airfields ( Bruggen, Geilenkirchen, Wildenrath). He had asked the Boss if he could borrow an aircraft for the weekend. (one could borrow "non operational" aircraft for this type of thing). The Boss said he could go providing he could persuade a few airman & a Sergeant to push open the hangar doors etc & sign the Form 700, a favour normally repaid with a crate of beer etc. The Meteor T7 was pushed out & Porky was on his way, he thought. Unfortunately the igniters in one engine were not making their usual click click noise & were u/s. There was no way that anyone was going to repair them. The Sergeant was in an awkward situation. I saw him have a quiet word with one of the airmen - who ran off into the hangar & returned with a handful of "cotton waste" (probably with a little paraffin soaked into it ?). The Sergeant told Porky to wind her up & open the HP cock when he told him to. The sergeant stood by the jet pipe as the revs built up, lights the cotton waste with his lighter, shouts "NOW" - and throws the burning cotton waste well up the jet pipe !! BERWOOOOOOOOMF !!!!!!! I get a brief glimpse of the waste flashing past me to goodness knows where. They revs build up normally to idling & Porky is on his way. "Put her u/s when you get there yells", the Cheefie. We next saw a Very hungover Porky about the following Wednesday !! P.S. Porky had a chequered career. At AFS (Finningly) on his First ever solo flight he was given reciprocal steers & ran out of fuel - resulting in Banner Headlines the next day ( Daily Express ?) - " Jet Ace Saves Manchester !!" On his last flight, at the end of the course, His tail was knocked off by a coursemate who was trying to rendezvous with him over the Humber but was blinded by the sun at the wrong moment. He then was nearly drowned in the river . After a tour on 79(FR) Squadron he was involved in writing the First pilots notes for the Harrier. Later he went to Muharraq (Not sure whether he was still in the RAF or not ?). I could go on & on about those great (flying) days.........

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These shots were all taken by a local farmer who I go to know.

Will that be the Farmer who was also a Journalist & Professional Photographer who lived at the 90` RH bend on the Blankenhagen Road. (Where road and rail split) The one that would have made James Bond look like an amateur when it came to gathering intelligence, for he had an entire room with literally thousands upon thousands of slides of every aircraft to have been at Gutersloh since WWII. I am crap at names but he could have been 'Eric', either way, he proved that 'friendly interrogation' works every time.

:) james bond-mäßig also

Da hat sich Erich W. also wieder verewigt! :-)

Da hat sich Erich W. also wieder verewigt! :-)

ja, man erinnert sich in dem forum an den farmer von der emsbrücke. die ganzen forumsbeiträge zum thema »gütersloh, mid 70s« lesen sich übrigens recht interessant. viele geschichten von ehemaligen stationierten. hier ist der Link zum Forum

ach ja... zum thema meteor abstürze habe ich noch etwas gefunden: hier steht, dass am 24.2.1954 die VZ600 einen birdstrike hatte und eine forced landing machen musste. weiter unten auf der seite steht als ort »near gütersloh«... abgestürzt oder nicht?