The English Electric Lightning was Britain's first supersonic jet fighter. But it was more than just a test-bed plane designed to break the sound barrier; it's also a plane with a long and storied ...
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60,000 Feet in 3 Minutes: The Lightning That Terrified the Soviets
Britain’s English Electric Lightning could climb faster than any Western jet, hitting 60,000 feet in under three minutes and exceeding Mach 2. This chapter explores the aircraft’s astonishing ...
When English Electric finalized the P1B design in the mid-1950s, the Royal Air Force suddenly had a weapon that looked less like a fighter and more like a manned missile. Gone was the oval nose intake ...
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