Thunder & Lightnings
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 6:41 amAfternoon fellow screenshot fans!
After faffing with a EE Lightning for the Judges Choice i thought id have a play with a few and here are the results...
'Thunder & Lightnings..'
The English Electric Lightning is a supersonic jet fighter aircraft of the Cold War era, noted for its great speed and unpainted natural metal exterior finish. It is the only all-British Mach 2 fighter aircraft. The aircraft was renowned for its capabilities as an interceptor.
Royal Air Force pilots described it as "being saddled to a skyrocket". English Electric was later incorporated into the British Aircraft Corporation, later marks being developed and produced as the BAC Lightning.'
After faffing with a EE Lightning for the Judges Choice i thought id have a play with a few and here are the results...
'Thunder & Lightnings..'
The English Electric Lightning is a supersonic jet fighter aircraft of the Cold War era, noted for its great speed and unpainted natural metal exterior finish. It is the only all-British Mach 2 fighter aircraft. The aircraft was renowned for its capabilities as an interceptor.
Royal Air Force pilots described it as "being saddled to a skyrocket". English Electric was later incorporated into the British Aircraft Corporation, later marks being developed and produced as the BAC Lightning.'
EE Lightning F.Mk2 'XN790' 92 Sqn RAF Leconfield 1964
'All variants of Lightning had the excess thrust to slightly exceed 700 KIAS under certain conditions, and the service limit of 650 KIAS was occasionally ignored, even when not driven by operational necessity. With the strengthened shock cone, the large-tail Lightning variants could safely approach their thrust limit, but fuel burn at high indicated airspeeds was prodigious, and the Lightning might very well run short before eking-out the last few knots. In all variants of the Lightning, the airspeed indicator scale stopped at 700 KIAS.'
