How am I supposed to play the Meteor?

I'm not outright calling it shit, it has clear good aspects but I just cannot get this thing to work at all. It's slower than basically everything at 8.0, it turns like crazy but it never does me any good, and it's guns are alright but not the best.

I tried climbing high and getting the altitude advantage so I could gain speed and dive on them (basically boom and zoom) but by top speed is around 560mph (\~900kmh) and everything else goes like 680mph (1100kmh)

I tried turn fighting with it since its turn speed is crazy good with flaps and it has great energy retention but everybody seems to know to NOT turn fight me and just flies away since they're all faster than me and I can't force a dogfight with anyone

Even when I do get into a dogfight, I turn pretty hard for a bit, pull 11gs, black out, and die. So if I DON'T want to black out, I need to give up my insane turn speed, which also leads to me dying.

For reference, I'm using the Mk. 8 at 8.0, and it's stock. That's probably a big part of the issue but even when fully spaded it seems like it just can't keep up with anything. It also doesn't help that 8.0 always warrants uptiers, so I just get fucked by AIM-9s and things with afterburners that go 200mph faster than me

(Photos are comparisons for reference)