Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
Great plane, if a bit limited firepower wise. Could go damn high, and pretty much straight up
Rumour had it back in the 70's that it could climb vertically and pass the sound barrier on the way up. I have spoken to old pilots at RAF Binbrook who claimed that they would often give their heading as 'vertical'. One guy once said that he was at 50,000 feet and still over the runway. I also remember being told that a few of the pilots had pushed the plane so much that they had started to strip the paint off through the effects of the heat. Two bloody missiles though and two guns if you were lucky is pretty piss poor.

I'm guessing though that the electronics were valve so there is an immediate act of superiority