I was stationed at Binbrook in the early 80s working on tanker pool refuelling the lightnings. On OTR you has to refuel quick. What a beautiful machine. 🇬🇧🏴
Used to sit at the end of the runway at Warton in the mid-80s, watching it take off just like that - with a Tornado trailing in its wake unable to climb at the same rate. I know they had differing tactical roles, but what a sight to behold
Wow, thanks for sharing this. I lived near Binbrook and remember the Lightnings. Wasn't there one on the base after closure that volunteers were restoring? Amazing piece of film, and a beautiful aircraft.
I often spotted the 3 Electric Lightnings from my office in Cape Town overlooking the airport - it was a wondrous sight especially the speed at which the jet had to land and of course the acceleration.
@@seanmurphy7011 Not according to the pilots when the F2A was Top Dog in the 70’s in Germany. Later when F15/16’s as the new lightweight next generation fighters were introduced, it was starting to show it’s age, and the reluctance to upgrade the weapons radar system meant they were no longer competitive. But in their day try try telling Steve Gyles and his mates at Gutersloh they were ridiculous and overrated, and you’ll get a blunt reply from the guys at the sharp end. Glad you enjoyed the video.
Teddy ‘Thumper’ White. Designed the most beautiful fighter in the world. When asked, he said the inspiration for the Lightning came to him after visiting his parents in India, & a day trip to see the Taj Mahal! It all makes sense now.
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Bloody magnificent,nothing to touch it,a glorious sight and sound.
My uncle was WO armourer at RAF Binbrook back in the late 60s on the Lightning's, And on a visit I got to feel and hear a QRA take off from a Lightning whilst cycling on the perry track with one of my cousins (you could do that sort of thing back then)
Well remember a school careers visit to RAF Coltishall (rip) at 14 back in '68, busy operational day, lightnings thundering down the runway.......never forgotten.Awesome
I am 67,. I remember Winston Churchill's funeral. I was seven. I had a thing about planes. Had the Lightning Airfix kit. I lived on a hill on the edge of London, about 8 or 9 miles from the funeral, and was watching it on TV. Sixteen Lightnings did a flypast. (I don't remember the number, I just looked it up). It was exciting to see them on the TV. What seemed like a few seconds later, there was a great noise outside. I ran out, and there was the whole formation right above my head. Because we were a few hundred feet up, they were close. They looked like they were in touching distance. I couldn't believe it was real. It was so exhilarating.
I was either 10 or 11 (so '72 - '73) when I saw a Lightning do this as we were leaving Finningley. Couldn't believe what I was seeing then and 50+ years on, that hasn't changed!!
There's def a downhill section coming on to the bridge And that loco will be adding momentum Surely it needs to be the approved stretch. Where Mallard set the record
I can remember at my school (High Pavement Grammar School Nottingham ) a lightning flew over at a height that wasn’t more than about five hundred feet, the noise was incredible, all the windows rattled and the ground seemed to vibrate, this happened on two occasions in around the late sixties, pretty sure the manoeuvre would be classified as illegal and dangerous today, still, a very memorable event.
