Donald Arthur Gregg
City and Guilds of London 1st class certificate Engineering. He was a textiles laboratory assistant in 1939.
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He was the son of Ivan Trent Gregg and Mabel Gregg and the brother of Ewart Gregg of 55, Hartley Road, Radford, Nottingham.
Nottingham Northern Cemetery Sec P/14 Grave 32
Meteor F.1 EE226
Meteor F.1 EE226 -No.616 Sqn. - Stalled on approach to Ashford ALG and spun into ground, Great Chart, near Ashford, Kent.
The Gloster Meteor F.1 was the first operational jet fighter for the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and the only Allied jet to see combat during World War II. It Entered service in July 1944 with No. 616 Squadron RAF.
Powered by two Rolls-Royce Welland turbojets (producing roughly 1,700 lbf of thrust each).Top Speed: About 417 mph (671 km/h).
Four 20mm Hispano cannons mounted in the nose.Production: Only 20 units of the F.1 variant were built before transitioning to improved models.
Operational History. Home Defence: Due to extreme secrecy surrounding jet technology, pilots were forbidden from flying over enemy-held territory to prevent capture, restricting the F.1 to defending British airspace.V-1
Its primary wartime role was intercepting V-1 "doodlebug" flying bombs targeting London and southeast England.
The squadron's first recorded kill of a V-1 occurred in August 1944—achieved by tipping the flying bomb's wing with the aircraft's wingtip to upset its gyro system after the cannons jammed.
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