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What a fckg machine

I remember the Lightning at RAF St Athan BoB open days back in the late 70's / 80's, they were extremely Loud, fast & the last Move was a Unrestricted Climb, So fast it was unreal, just wish the RAF had kept one flying as a Air Display Machine, Even today I don't think there is anything which does an unrestricted climb like a RAF Lightning Did.

Lived 10 miles away from Binbrook and never saw them only heard them as they were so high😅

The wings are only there to separate the nav lights

Powaaa everyday!

ZU-Bex crashed killing the pilot. The crash report says a day before the pilot had difficulties shutting down the engine after a fligh

who needs a harrier

TESLA haha junk

I was there on that fateful day this Lightning crashed at the Bredasdorp Air Force base, South Africa, November 2009. It was really sad. Fortunately it crashed out of sight of the public so we were saved the horror. Everyone was devistated. The show was them called of.

Converting noise into lift...brilliant.

With power like that I sometimes wondered what the wings were for.

Worked on them at RAF Wattisham (29 and 111 Squadrons) and in Cyprus (Akrotiri, 56 Squadron). Happy days!

Bought a 1/72 Steel Model, i often just stare at how beautiful it is... My wife said we weren't having it as an item of decoration in the lounge, now she loves it😂, and i mean the plane!!!

23 Sqn flew these. Some of them were at CFB Baden Solingen some time in the 70s. When they left one of them screamed over at low level. I was in the laundromat at the time and the roar over head put such a look of alarm on the face of one of the women that was also there.

ZU-BEX suffers technical issues.Pilot fails to eject due to faulty ejector component(s).

Very poor sound unfortunately ...

I was browsing the air museum at Old Sarum in Wiltshire and there, of all things, is a prototype Lightning!

Is that Mike's Lightning? If so RIP legend

Man that was 1 Big Fucking Weather Balloon, I Have 3 Weather Balloons 72 inches which measures Im gonna Take Guess 7 Ft.

I would ad a distortion to the (video) sound.

So this is an amazing engie run of an at least more amazing aircracft.. - what has happend with that wonderful aircraft since 2014.. ? All best wishes from germany!!

Saw one at Farnbourough go vertical, both candle lit, we could feel the heat............then it was gone

the mic peaking omg

12 ft off the ground, then vertical

That was with doubt the greatest sight I ever saw while in the AIR FORCE a light go vertical

Just a shame they couldn't have maintained Pelican 16 as well as this one, then maybe it wouldn't have ended up crashing in the Sahara desert!

The thing is this: that plane is SOOOO heavy. The thrust needed to make that thing go vertical is unreal.

It's a crying shame that none of these are flying any more. Hopefully the one in Georgia will make it into the air & we can all see how amazing this aircraft was & still is. BTW, for all the armchair pilots, the lack of range was NOT a "flaw", this aircraft's mission was to get very high VERY QUICKLY & intercept incoming soviet aircraft. It didn't need range because by the time the intruders showed up on radar they'd be pretty close to RAF bases anyway.

Eat your heart out Phantom.

Those Roll-Royce Merlin's are a dream. Thanks for posting the video. I hope they invest the money and get this beauty Air Worthy! Albany, NY USA

That's what I love to see a build speed up in the horizontal followed be a vertical climb out. I've seen this many times and always worth the wait to watch the EE Lightning in action at past airshows. Some folks think with the modern jets full on vertical accent is new but lightnings were doing this in the 60's . Before Concorde was retired, in a NATO exercise with a number of NATO planes taking part to catch a Concorde being the target plane the EE Lightning was the only plane to catch and overhaul the Concorde. If Concorde was around today there is still only a few planes that could achieve it.

0:47 sounds like a turbo prop plane. Or a helicopter.

British and beautiful!

She's so ugly she is beautiful.

As a teenager growing up in Cape Town, I'd be out surfing and watching these lovely planes flying out to sea on patrol. Loved watching them.

Wickedest prop display I have seen a long while!

The British Shackleton's you see in the picture's are Mk2 a improved version of the Mk 1 the original aircraft designed from the late 1940's and they both had tail wheel arrangement. They were both phased out and replaced with this aircraft the Mk 3 that was given a nose wheel as the length of the fuselage had been increased. The Mk 2 however out lasted the Mk3 and was later brought back into service as the AEW 2 (Airborne Early Warning) that the one everyone remembers with the big chin mounter radar, they stayed in service until the early 1990's.I don't know if the South Africans had them but in the British Mk 3's had two Viper jet engines housed one behind each of the out board griffons that had a electrically operated air scoop this help take-off with max all up weight.

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Why this airplane have nose gear and de british have tail Wheel.?

Now there's 18 minutes of my life I'll never get back!

That's my old friend. I made the documentary The Death of Pelican-16. Now available in the UK. 4xforum.com/product/death-pelican-16

did yall find it

Fuck yeah!!!!

zoom out too

move seats next time to get away from the glare if you can. other than that, nice clip

just loved the burnout!!

Very Good!