The English Electric Lightning is a British fighter aircraft that served as an interceptor during the 1960s, the 1970s and into the late 1980s. It is capable...
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Two English Electric aircraft designs became landmarks in British aeronautical engineering; the Canberra and the Lightning. In 1960, English Electric Aircraft...
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inadvertently engaged the afterburner of a Mach 2.0–capable English Electric Lightning during ground testing. Unable to disengage the afterburner, Holden...
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incidents involving the English Electric Lightning twin-engined interceptor and multi-role fighter. The main operator of the Lightning was the Royal Air Force...
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The English Electric/BAC Lightning (ISBN 978-0-85045-562-5) is an aviation book by British military historian and author Bruce Barrymore Halpenny about...
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this era include the Convair F-106 Delta Dart, Sukhoi Su-15, and English Electric Lightning. Through the 1960s and 1970s, the rapid improvements in design...
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The Ford F-150 Lightning is a battery electric full-size light duty truck unveiled by Ford Motor Company in May 2021 as part of the fourteenth generation...
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Firestreak on the de Havilland Sea Vixen and later models of the English Electric Lightning. Originally designed as an upgraded version of the Firestreak...
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without afterburning was Mach 1.05. The P.1 prototype of the English Electric Lightning, powered by non-afterburning Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire engines...
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aircraft, starting with the British interceptor aircraft, the English Electric Lightning, in the late 1950s. The concept quickly spread to numerous other...
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refer to: F53 (classification), a disability sport classification English Electric Lightning F.53, a British fighter aircraft Franklin County Airport (Texas)...
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Rolls-Royce Avon (category Use British English from January 2018)
was the RA.29 Mk.301/2 (RB.146) used in later versions of the English Electric Lightning. It produced 12,690 and 17,110 lbf (56,400 and 76,100 N) with...
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Thunder City (section 2009 Lightning crash)
around 50,000 feet. Following a fatal accident in 2009 in which an English Electric Lightning crashed at an airshow, the company ceased flying operations after...
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response to the electric field generated by lightning flashes in underlying thunderstorms. When a sufficiently large positive lightning strike carries...
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with the Royal Air Force (RAF) and Fleet Air Arm, equipping the English Electric Lightning, de Havilland Sea Vixen and Gloster Javelin. It was a rear-aspect...
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Lockheed X-7. Some turbojet aircraft including the Su-7, MiG-21, English Electric Lightning, and SR-71 also use an inlet cone. An inlet cone, as part of an...
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bolt of negative lightning creates an electric current of 30,000 amperes (30 kA), transferring a total 15 C (coulombs) of electric charge and 1 gigajoule...
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Baseball League franchise Beechcraft Lightning, an experimental civilian turboprop aircraft English Electric Lightning, a supersonic British fighter aircraft...
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used on the de Havilland Sea Vixen, and the AI.23 Airpass on the English Electric Lightning. This article will use Mk. or AI. depending on which is most commonly...
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the operational conversion of some of its fast jets such as the English Electric Lightning. Given the expense of military pilot training, air forces typically...
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No. 5 Squadron RAF (category Use British English from May 2019)
World War. During the Cold War, No. 5 (Fighter) Squadron flew the English Electric Lightning and Panavia Tornado F3. No. 5 Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps...
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RAF Binbrook (category Use British English from November 2017)
Binbrook from RAF West Raynham between 1959 and 1962 and two English Electric Lightning squadrons were stationed there between 1965 and 1988. RAF Binbrook...
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Thrust2 (category Use British English from August 2015)
powered by a single Rolls-Royce Avon jet engine sourced from an English Electric Lightning, and has a configuration somewhat resembling that of the mid-1960s-era...
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Gloster Javelin (category Use British English from February 2018)
missile. The Javelin was succeeded in the interceptor role by the English Electric Lightning, a supersonic aircraft capable of flying at more than double the...
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Hawker Hunter (category Use British English from January 2018)
During the 1960s, following the introduction of the supersonic English Electric Lightning in the interceptor role, the Hunter transitioned to being operated...
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F-106 Delta Dart – (United States) Dassault Mirage III – (France) English Electric Lightning – (United Kingdom) Lockheed F-104 Starfighter – (United States)...
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Retrieved 2015-09-03. "Thunder & Lightnings – English Electric Lightning – Pictures – Profiles". Thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk. 2009-08-11. Retrieved 2010-11-09...
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RAF Fighter Command (category Use British English from July 2015)
the Gloster Meteor, Hawker Hunter, Gloster Javelin and English Electric Lightning. The Lightning was the only purely British supersonic aircraft to enter...
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Military Academy. In 1969, the Kuwait Armed Forces placed the English Electric Lightning supersonic jet fighter aircraft and the Bell 206 and Bell 204/205...
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No. 56 Squadron RAF (category Use British English from August 2015)
aerobatic display team, 'The Firebirds', which consisted of nine English Electric Lightning F.1As, which participated at many airshows. From March 1976 to...
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