The heading on this thread says "Oldest jet in the world to fly again"....... It doesn`t say "still flying". My mistake Whilst the Meteor was a great achievment for its time, and I`m taking my hat off for the people who manage to keeping an example airworthy, it`s been stated not to be the oldest in the world. That was my point! . Frank Whittle were the first to patent the turbojet engine. In the time German engineers were way ahead of that. The Me-262 were the first true jet-fighter to see service and combat. We can agree on that I think. No belitteling of others.