"Prone Flying" Experiments In The R.A.F. -- The "prone position" Meteor in flight - a close-up from another aircraft. The pilot can be seen lying prone in the nose of the Meteor. A new "prone flying" Meter jet aircraft built to investigate the possibilities of flying the aircraft from the prone position, is now being used at the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough under the direction of the R.A.F, Institute of Aviation Medicine. Among the problems being studied are the cutting down of th