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Ralph Swift was posted to 527 Squadron, RAF Watton in Norfolk, as a Calibration Pilot in November of 1954 and having just come off a fighter squadron at Deversoir in Egypt . He was not too happy with the assignment.
At just 21 years of age he had hoped for and expected something with a little more action . . .
Meteor NF11 of 527 Squadron taken in 1954