j4ckos mate

Anyone recall these

YouTube - RAF Lightning Jet fighter promo 60s

can clime the height of everest in two minutes

Jamie

Yes the best of british

Janspeed

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Thought it hit 50,000' in 2 minutes?

alpha charlie

We currently have a Lightning in pieces at work!!!
AC

Jamie

Everest is only 29002 ft)

Jamie

The lightning could do 40k ft within minutes how many i don't know !

j4ckos mate

i went to mildenhall for the full weekend in 85, and on the monday when everything was going home one of them took off and went vertically up in a straight line till it went out of site, simply unforgetable.
my coat was vibrating because of the noise,

JonMc

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One of the greatest myths, it's not actually an aircraft - it's just a pair of engines with a seat strapped on top.

FlightMan

For the 5 minutes of full afterburner, it was the fastest thing out there.

Of course, after that you were out of fuel and a pi$$ poor glider!

Janspeed

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Photos: English Electric Lightning F1 Aircraft Pictures | Airliners.net

I think it could climb to 50,000' in about 2-3 mins from brakes release.
Very impressive indeed.

Jamie

pair i thought they built that plane with just one engine where is les when you need him

its ok flightman is here

Sam Dingle

Here's some happy looking aircraft!!

alpha charlie

LOL, is that Jimbo the jetset on the left?
AC

Fat Boy

There was a great maybe apocryphal story going around about one of the refit groundcrew somewhere in the UK being tasked with taxiing a Lightning between hangars and, being boys, couldn't help giving it a little bit more throttle than they were supposed to do as they taxied along the runway only for it to take off almost instantly because of it's awesome power to weight ratio and then land again and roll to a halt where a gibbering whitefaced greasemokey was found in the stripped cockpit sitting on a bar stool...I'd wager he probably didn't do that again...

Flaps

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My nephew will love that!

Now get 'Babe of the Week' up 'Sam'

Sam Dingle

Not till my ban is up, sorry mate! Glad I'll bring a smile to your nephews face though

springbok

You can have a flight in one of magnificent machines, for a price of course.

Welcome to Thunder City

ronjeramy

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Pip pip, chocks away old boy. What what

*twiddles handle bar mustache*

Jamie

Hola mr RJ

Jamie

MiG 25 one is for sale if you have 3 million

greenonedave

as a kid must have been my favourite aircraft to make, there is one at Duxford
just beautifull

FlightMan

scoobeenut

Damn, what would that do after a remap?

Dave T-S

When I was in the air cadets in the early 70's I regularly saw them fly, i've witnessed the take off, stand on tail with reheat on, disappear to a dot rapidly on a number of occasions, and it remains my favourite plane of all time to this day

I've spoken to Thunder City, and it's going to be my retirement present

Many of you will be aware of the F2A XN728 that sits forlornly in the scrap yard at the side of the A1 at Newark, pointing skywards as if it it trying to take off for one last time

hamyam

My brother flew the lightning and was based at Lucas in Scotland and flew up to intercept the Russian bears as they came over our coastline. He said it was the best plane he flew. Don’t know if anyone remembers the full-page ad with a lightning in the papers for the RAF recruitment but he was the pilot in that

Dave T-S

Two RR Avon engines strapped one above the other

Dave T-S

Initial rate of climb 50,000 feet per minute, reached 36,000 feet in 2.5 minutes

j4ckos mate

a close second was the starfighter as well.
german airforce used to have two as dsiplay a/c