English Electric Lightning | with Dennis Brooks *EXTRAS* 

Those take offs are never forgotten!

@@robertp.wainman4094 Denis was my boss back at Binbrook. We are also working to allow other people to experience the sight and sound of these take offs. Check out this site lightning422.com/.

@@kelvinware875 Thanks for that - would be wonderful to see a Lightning take to the skies once more!

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Cheers

There were and remain special - even for us Vulcan pilots - we would hold them in high esteem - and would welcome them when they occasionally flew into RAF WADDINGTON and RAF COTTESMORE It was decades ago - and seems like only yesterday We were much younger then. Time passes quickly 01:13 -- SYSTON is in Leicestershire -- and close to my home City of Leicester My late mother was a Aircraft QC inspector. After migrating to AU - she found work at a Machine tool Manufacturer - Where they never saw a woman who could read a micrometer -- and in those days there was no such instrument as a DIGITAL micrometer. My mother was paid the same wage as the Men - in an age where Women were paid two thirds of what a Man was paid -- My mother went on to training other WoMen as QC inspectors - What they weer paid I do not know - though I expect that they were paid below the wage of Men -

Wow thank you very much and thank you for the very kind words!

Me too - breaking the sound barrier over the hangars - until they stopped that sort of thing!

Was an amazing aircraft