This is an English Electric Lightning - an old RAF jet from the 1960s and a veteran of the cold war. Although no longer airworthy, the Lightning is kept in running condition by a team of enthusiasts at Bruntingthorpe, Leicestershire. This event was a twilight run - to see those spectacular afteburners to best effect. Technical troubles (flat battery) meant that the aircraft took longer to get started than planned, so the 'twilight run' became an 'almost in the dark run'. This is the first of two runs - the noise was amazing.
29 November 2009
Lightning at Twilight
This is an English Electric Lightning - an old RAF jet from the 1960s and a veteran of the cold war. Although no longer airworthy, the Lightning is kept in running condition by a team of enthusiasts at Bruntingthorpe, Leicestershire. This event was a twilight run - to see those spectacular afteburners to best effect. Technical troubles (flat battery) meant that the aircraft took longer to get started than planned, so the 'twilight run' became an 'almost in the dark run'. This is the first of two runs - the noise was amazing.
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