Posted on April 9, 2021April 11, 2021 by Erik Chipchase English Electric Lightning is a British fighter aircraft that served as an interceptor during the 1960s, the 1970s and into the late 1980s. It remains the only UK-designed-and-built fighter capable of Mach 2.
Posted on October 10, 2020January 10, 2021 by Erik Chipchase A sad bunch of ex-Saudi Lighnings bought back by BAe in 1986. Photo taken in 1997 when some of them were in this sad guise at Marine Salvage near Portsmouth. Gladly they later found more caring places to stay.
Posted on September 4, 2020 by Erik Chipchase distresscalls: brieflyinstantruins: English electric Lighting F.6 XR770 – Now at RAF Manston History Museum, Manston, Kent. Fixed
