Target Towing Meteor 8s at Sylt - Aug55.   Notice the Flight Refuelling probe on the nose which Roger Lindsay tells me is from the time it took part in the trials with 245 Sqn.   Johnny Macknish says that he cannot recall that there were any differences in the handling characteristics between the 'standard' or 'probe' Mark 8's.   Most of his experiences during the three months or so that he was with the TT squadron at the end of his service time was spent towing target flags up and down the ranges to the west of Sylt.   Although there were the odd occasions when one was free of a flag when it was possible to let rip and get back to real flying!   Roger Lindsay tells us that the APS at Sylt inherited about eleven former 245 Sqn trials with the In-Flight Refuelling probed F.8s but good pictures of them are rare!   He says that the gun camera was repositioned because of the probe, and originally these aircraft had a switch in the cockpit to permit the pilot to control the fuel flow when 'tanking', but this may have been removed before the aircraft were issued to Sylt.   Johnny cannot remember there being a switch relating to air refuelling as the system was redundant and therefore 'out of mind'. (Thanks to Johnny Macknish.)