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 ...
Designed in the late 1940s, the English Electric Lightning was a jet so powerful it could climb to 40,000 feet in under 150 seconds and fly faster than Concorde. Despite its revolutionary stacked ...
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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