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