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How a Lightning Turns Into a Rocket the Second It Hits the Throttle
The English Electric Lightning wasn’t just a fighter it was a vertical rocket with wings, and this clip proves it. The moment ...
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 ...
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 ...
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