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What's the need for all these controls

L'aereo di Indiana Jones 😂😂😂

Q porra é essa velho?

Славик, что то я очкую, может не надо!? 😂

our pleasure 2015 nice to kno it still there

Clear for start 😂

Let us see u fly it

Oh wow

The UK mistakes in declaring WW II and during it terminated the britons' Aviation Industry. 'Crescent Wing' is a glorious concept

Airfix box art.

That is one fugly plane.

British airframe design post WW2 was very unique.

Looks Like Thunderbirds cartoon Must be British

Remember those days up at Kinloss.

What's the use of full afterburner, and Mach 2, when you've got bugger all fuel and range?... A longer fuselage might have helped fuel capacity. 🤷‍♂

It was greased lightning!

I wonder if the Lightning would be an easier aircraft to fly if it had todays modern tech.

Is that at Cosford?

Wow, good story............

What about the story of Test Pilot who ejected from a vertical but facing downwards (!) Lightening about circa 150 feet from the ground???

Working in BAe Saudi in '86, the lightnings went home to be replaced by Tornados - as they left they came across lower and lower, the last on dodging the lampposts on the airfield and getting the viewing ground crew on airport steps to duck. Fab aircraft.

That was great ! I ordered mine on Amazon but without the radar......Free shipping too !!

Coolest thing i ever saw was at age 14 on a boat off the coast of Northumberland. 2 lightnings low level over the sea, so low the spray was higher than they were. Epic

We lived in West Germany in the 1960s and RAF Gutersloh was our nearest RAF base. It was our base for family air trooping. I went through there many times and it was always a thrill to see a Lightning.

Ah ha, so it was an overated kitty

I spent 3 years doing major overhaul engine work on F3 & T5 Lightning’s at RAF Leconfield 60 MU before being posted to 56 sqdn RAF Akrotiri. At Leconfield the test pilot, Squadron Leader Dick Bell MBE took me up in XV328, a T5 for the ride of a lifetime. He allowed me to do most of the flight, making me a member of the ten ton club. I never heard them called a death tube, a frightning, yes.

My Dad was on Canberras back in the 1950's.

The "Flt Lt" was wearing FO, Flying Officer, rank slides.

Always thought the Lightning was called the "Frightening" by its pilots, not "Aluminum Death Tube". But his description of the work load, really validates why the F-4 Phantom was designed to be operated by a two-man crew, pilot and a radar intercept officer. It would be very difficult for a single-pilot to maintain situational awareness in combat with that high work load. The RAF in the '70s would have been a fascinating place, with Lightnings, Phantoms, Harriers in service, and the Tornado being developed. Also, none of those supersonic jets are really recoverable from a spin, because they are "fuselage loaded" (long fuselage- to wing span ratio), and develop into a flat spin. That wasn't really a characteristic unique to the lightning.

I never understood why the RAF had sub standard instruments that toppled when inverted. The Luftwaffe had 2 not 1 Attitude indicators that worked perfectly inverted. Saving money and risking lives.....? that and the none steerable nose wheel sum the RAF up perfectly.

To be fair the "Red Arrows" never came back after transitioning to the T1. I remember the performances in the 60's/early 70's with the Folland Gnat and they were truly outstanding.

Yes low passes at air shows just below the speed of sound. When the sound came a split second after the plane. Wonderful memories

I have only flown the EE Lightning in VR but even so it was terrifying at first, that and the Phantom F4 are the only 2 in VR that had me worried. Not counting the worst ever ME109. (for different reasons)

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I heard that it never got an official safety certificate to fly !

What a rather puerile title! Clickbait of the worse type

Had some good times at RAF Binbrook Crash Gate 3. In the last year of the Lightnings in RAF service

Lightning pilots are called Wiwols - “When I was on Lightnings”

XA941 is listed as struck off charge on 22 Nov 74 at St Athan

Some used to say the E.E. Lightning was as Aerodynamic as a BRICK and shouldn't really fly. But it was so fast along the runway that the only thing it could do to save the flight crews lives WAS to Fly and Oh my "Giddy Aunt" it was awesome. better than S E X!

My great friend, drinking partner and band-mate, the late Wing Co. Gus Crockett, RIP, was a Lightning pilot for many many years. Used to love hearing of his flying adventures. Very much missed indeed.

fk me clarkson was a fighter pilot? interceptor akshully. who knew? no wonder he ribbed the other two about their flying licences.

This is bombardier’s position, navigator’s position behind the pilot’s seat

Great recollection

Later Victors had Conway engines with larger intakes.

I recall from my RAF days in the 1970's an RAF Hunter pilot transitioning to the Lightning. After his first solo he told his instructor that he had everything under control until he made his first mistake. He released the parking brake .

At about 1966/67 I was a motor mechanic in Dusseldorf - one of our customers was a Lightning pilot at Gutersloh, I returned his Hillman Imp of all things🤫 to the base one day and was told he was on patrol with his wingman along the East German border by Hannover and was directed to wait beside a hanger with the ground crew - within minutes they came over the runway as low as you like waggling wings and then a vertical climb - showboating ? Yes Thrilling ? You bet your bottom dollar ! Very much our last Hurrah !!

It was the first modern combat jet. Service men were not used to all the new technology. Today the Lightning would be looked upon as par for the course. Therefore I think the Lightning gets an unfair reputation as tricky to maintain and operate. It was not and led the way for combat aircraft that came subsequently. A sane country would have upgraded the radar he was talking about but this being the UK we did not develop another combat jet radar until the 1980s and the Fox Hunter radar which is why it took so long and had so many problems to get the Fox Hunter radar into service. Today we have perfected developing radars and maintained the momentum in doing so with the result we can relatively quickly and easily turn out new advanced radars. We have not taken a twenty year holiday and allowed all the expertise to retire and die off.

Nice vid