Kuwait Air Force
Lightning
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.
interceptor aircraft family by English Electric
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English Electric Lightning
'n supersoniese vegvliegtuig (onderskepper) uit die Koue Oorlog-era.
ferry tanks on wings
イングリッシュ・エレクトリック ライトニング
caccia intercettore English Electric
avion militaire supersonique britannique
afterburning turbojet engines
מטוס קרב בריטי
British Aircraft Corporation
brittiläinen hävittäjälentokone
right
sustained to Zoom climb 50,000 ft/min
إنجلش إلكتريك لايتنينغ
avión de caza fabricado por English Electric
with two Red Top missiles, cannon, ammunition, and internal fuel
طائرة اعتراضية من صنع المملكة المتحدة
Royal Saudi Air Force
with armament and no fuel
supersonic intercept radius
britský stíhací letoun
brytyjski samolot odrzutowy
F.6 with Red Top missiles and 1/2 fuel
második generációs brit harci repülőgép
* Short SB.5 * Saunders-Roe SR.177 * CAC CA-23
* Zoom ceiling:
Lightning F.6 of No. 11 Squadron RAF arriving at RAF Greenham Common in 1976.
Retired
Supersonische onderscheppingsjager
brittiskt jaktflygplan
internal fuel; with external tanks
1957 interceptor aircraft family by English Electric
English Electric
閃電戰鬥機
イギリスの超音速ジェット戦闘機
United Kingdom
kts
—RAF Lightning pilot John Ward
zweistrahliger Abfangjäger des britischen Herstellers English Electric