It's Lightning

[Haselsh1]

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English Electric P1A prototype at RAF Binbrook around the early eighties. Pentax ME fitted with a Pentax 28mm lens, Kodak Ektachrome 64 and a polariser.


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BAe Lightning F6 'H' 5 Squadron taken around 1981. Pentax ME fitted with a Pentax 135mm lens and Agfa 50S film.


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BAe Lightning F6 'AA' 5 Squadron at RAF Binbrook taken around 1986. Bronica ETRS fitted with a 75mm lens and Fuji Provia 100F film.

[synsei]

One of my all time fave interceptors and an aircraft which I believe still holds the record for the fastest climb rate of all time IIRC ;)

[Haselsh1]

Yes apparently this aircraft could climb ninety degrees to the Earth and pass the sound barrier on the way up. It could reach 53,000 feet in one minute and could sustain supersonic flight with no reheat. Not bad for a plane designed in 1948. Of course in full reheat it would consume 200 gallons of kerosene per minute. That's my boy...!

[Ali Tait]

Sounds like my Alfa. :lol:

[Haselsh1]

Sounds like my Alfa. :lol:

Yeah, I reckon the performance would be similar along with the fuel consumption especially the V6 models.