English Electric Lightning
height in: 7
width: 25.0
more users: Kuwait Air Force
primary user: Royal Air Force
name: Lightning
quote: Suddenly the telephone would ring and it would be one of the radar controllers from around the UK ordering you to scramble immediately. And so you would run to the aeroplane, jump in. They [Soviet aircraft] were just monitoring, listening, recording everything that went on. So you would get up alongside and normally they would wave, quite often there would be a little white face at every window. They knew we were there just to watch them. One I intercepted when he violated the airspace and I was trying to get him to land but it was scary. He just wanted to get out of there, he was out of Dodge as fast as he could go, he didn't want to mix it with me.
height ft: 19
description: interceptor aircraft family by English Electric @sco
lists: * List of accidents and incidents involving the English Electric Lightning * List of aircraft of the Royal Air Force * List of fighter aircraft
introduction: 1960-07-11
description: 'n supersoniese vegvliegtuig (onderskepper) uit die Koue Oorlog-era. @af
eng1 lbf ab: 16360
hardpoint other: ferry tanks on wings
label: イングリッシュ・エレクトリック ライトニング @ja
ferry range nmi: 800
max speed mach: --01-27
description: caccia intercettore English Electric @it
description: avion militaire supersonique britannique @fr
number built: 337
eng1 type: afterburning turbojet engines
description: מטוס קרב בריטי @iw
climb rate ftmin: 20000
ref: --09-06
weight: 0.78
wing area sqft: 474.5
manufacturer: British Aircraft Corporation
hardpoints: 2
description: brittiläinen hävittäjälentokone @fi
subject: Category:Mid-wing aircraft
hardpoint missiles: 2
align: right
climb rate note: sustained to Zoom climb 50,000 ft/min
subject: Category:English Electric aircraft
time to altitude: 168.0
subject: Category:Twinjets
first flight: 1954-08-04
label: إنجلش إلكتريك لايتنينغ @ar
point: 29.370648 47.976615
description: avión de caza fabricado por English Electric @es
subject: Category:1950s British fighter aircraft
gross weight note: with two Red Top missiles, cannon, ammunition, and internal fuel
description: طائرة اعتراضية من صنع المملكة المتحدة @ar
subject: Category:Aircraft with retractable tricycle landing gear
type: Interceptor aircraft
combat range nmi: 135
gross weight lb: 41076
more users: Royal Saudi Air Force
empty weight note: with armament and no fuel
similar aircraft: * * * * * * *
combat range note: supersonic intercept radius
hypernym: Aircraft
empty weight lb: 31068
description: britský stíhací letoun @cs
description: brytyjski samolot odrzutowy @pl
geometry: POINT(47.976615905762 29.37064743042)
type: Fighter aircraft
span in: 10
lat: 29.37064743041992
max takeoff weight lb: 45750
wing loading note: F.6 with Red Top missiles and 1/2 fuel
description: második generációs brit harci repülőgép @hu
type: SpatialThing
range nmi: 738
related: * Short SB.5 * Saunders-Roe SR.177 * CAC CA-23
first flight: 1957-04-04
ceiling note: * Zoom ceiling:
caption: Lightning F.6 of No. 11 Squadron RAF arriving at RAF Greenham Common in 1976.
status: Retired
description: Supersonische onderscheppingsjager @nl
eng1 number: 2
description: brittiskt jaktflygplan @sv
crew: 1
ferry range note: internal fuel; with external tanks
length ft: 55
length in: 3
sqft: 76
description: 1957 interceptor aircraft family by English Electric
guns: 2