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 ...
Seventy-one years ago today, on August 4, 1954, the English Electric Lightning P.1A made its maiden flight. Originally developed by English Electric-later absorbed into the British Aircraft ...
Designed in the late 1940s, the English Electric Lightning was a jet so powerful it could climb to 40,000 feet in under 150 seconds and fly faster than Concorde. Despite its revolutionary stacked ...