During the aircraft's secretive development, employees and officials made use of the codename Rampage to refer to the Meteor, as similarly the de Havilland Vampire would initially be referred to as the Spider Crab.
Under flyets hemmeligholdte udvikling benyttede ansatte og embedsmænd kodenavnet Rampage for at referere til Meteor, på samme måde blev de Havilland Vampire før den officielle navngivning kaldet Spider Crab.