English Electric Lightning 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 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 remains the only UK-designed-and-built fighter capable of Mach 2. The Lightning was designed, developed, and manufactured by English Electric, which was later merged into the newly-formed British Aircraft Corporation. Later the type was marketed as the BAC Lightning. It was operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF),

Designed to bring the RAF in to the supersonic age, the English Electric Lightning was an incredible leap forward in performance, flying at twice the speed of sound. Learn more about this aircraft in the latest episode of Duxford in Depth: http://bit.ly/3oUjJTZ | Imperial War Museum London

English Electric Lightning F.6 XR771 at the Midland Air Museum. While the famous vertical climb of the type was an airshow crowd pleaser, the operational climb profile called for a more modest attitude which, nonetheless, took the British supersonic fighter from runway to 36,000 ft in less than three minutes. #coldwar #ColdWarHistory #lightning #RoyalAirForce #warbirds | Daniel J Wheatcroft

English Electric Lightning | Keith Jones Airshow Videos

English Electric Lightning | Keith Jones Airshow Videos

"I was with it all the way, until I let the handbrake off"... The English Electric Lightning was a favourite amongst pilots for its incredible speed and rate of climb. In this episode of Duxford in Depth we explore the development and history of this remarkable aircraft and take a look Duxford's own example, XM135. Watch in full on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3yiViaC | Imperial War Museum Duxford