JOHN DUGGAN wrote:
> Chris,
> surely you have not forgotten the English Electric Lightning. A beast
> of a machine, intercepted an American spy plane at 88,000 ft, and caught
> Concorde in level flight. Also I believe it was the first plane to accelerate
> vertically like a rocket.
> (don't tell me it was before your time! ;-0
>
> Regards
> John Duggan,
> Wales, UK
>
Well, I remember it! Two took off at a Leuchars Air Day once, on a
Badger Hunt. Cleared the ground, wheels up, flip to vertical, invisible
about ten seconds later! barely used half the runway...very impressive.
Two engines and a cockpit, like sitting on two big firecrackers.
D.
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