He Has A Lightning Fighter Jet In His GARDEN!? | Forces TV 

which plane? they are there for all to see. at the end of the day... its costs money. this isnt just the only plane thats out in the open theres others.

WhiteLine Fever don’t think so as he didn’t get planning permission

Not at his house because councils suck

@Ken Norcott 😂😂🤣

He dosnt have it anymore but the aircraft is kept at lakes lightnings and kept in a good static display condition

@Ken Norcott wait wait, what? Really? How can anybody have anything to do with a vehicle you park on your private property? 😦

Hi, were they based at Biggin or was it an airshow?

Mr. Pepe what sun? You mean rain?

You should go to Elvington museum i was gutted to see their Lightning and Javelin outside left to rot with flat tyres and corrosion when far less important airframes are kept snug and dry

@@nervo6321 the owner of the Lightning at Elvington won’t allow any maintenance work on it. I don’t know why, nor do I know the story of the Javelin.

Who asked

Are you referring to the USA Air force and Georgia?

@@kevinm.n.5158 I would say, that was the case.

Yes. Warner Robins, Georgia. The airbase has an adjacent museum (indoor/outdoor) and is impressive. I was last there in the early 2000s. The Electric Lightning was sitting outside the main exhibit building. The base is/was a base for B1 bombers.

someone smarter than you@@jacklowry420

yes because the SR71 never did that xD

@@Sebastian-tm6ud Correct. The SR-71 couldn't reasonably supercruise.

@@madmax07ish except it did...

@@Sebastian-tm6ud I said "reasonably". It needed to use afterburner to break mach 1, and needed constant afterburner to go faster than mach 1.2. That's only a 200km/h boundary where it could supercruise. Which it rarely ever did, because it was preferable to be either subsonic or much faster than just mach 1.2. Supercruise couldn't be used in any functional capacity, having too narrow operating conditions.

@@madmax07ish I mean it's top speed still counts as Supercruising. The sr71s engines functioned as ramjets at that speed and they could hold top speed for give or take about tan hour.

Give him a chance, might have only just got it lol

Ahh yes a decades old supersonic jet will be absolutely destroyed as soon as the rain hits it! Believe it or not during war opposing forces won't try and bomb these, shoot heavy artillery at them, or any of that other rubbish they simply just take a hose and spray them down to render them completely useless for the rest of time

Laa0fa beautifully said

To have one of these souvenirs is certainly no joke given a chance. He can surely bring back to its original state.

@Tex Ex, maybe he uncovered it for the on camera interview.

Sadly our civvy aviation authorities won't allow former supersonic combat jets like the Lightning, back into the skies. Just have to be happy seeing them static or, if you are lucky, a powered taxi display like you used to get at Bruntingthorpe, before it changed hands.

Do you mean British Electric Lighting or an F-35? Because one is drastically different to the other

You Have to remember That the English Electric Lightning was on the drawing board way back in 1947. For years it was way ahead of the rest of the world for its performance. Its Only real drawback was the maintenance hungry hours and the tactical range. I still love the Lightning as I was many years a RAF Aircraft Tech working on the Magnificent Lightning.

It's like watching a video of a classic racing car where someone says "they don't make a beast like this anymore" to then have some comment stating the obvious increase in horse power over the past decades... missed the point completely. It's called a passion for something and is subjective.

@@andrewdavies3584 Well the lightning can still go faster. Mach 2.27 although that wasn't commonly reached.

The F6 Lightning STILL holds the WORLD RECORD for CLIMB RATE, 0-50.000ft in 59 seconds

@Nonya Business I was speaking about maintenance rather than service career life. There were 4 flying in SA 10 years ago, but now there are less after one crashed killing its pilot about 10 years back, the cause of the accident being poor maintenance due to the issues I mentioned in my first post.

@@Horizon344 - For the love of God, the reason that Lightning was lost was NOT DUE TO POOR MAINTENANCE, the pilot (Dave Stock) was a yahoo, Read the comprehensive crash report, it's widely available online.

So, you lived through seeing the halcyon days of the Cold War RAF, when these jets were in abundance. Kinda envious. My earliest memory was being scared to death by a Vulcan bomber, back in the Seventies, as it passed over the house I Iived in. The noise those engine made, were too much for my younger ears.

1chish very well said! Keep your history a reality!

1chish that’s what they should have done imagine the flying displays with all sorts of aircraft

Oliver - Exactly. And as Cahoona said it keeps the history alive for our kids to see and hear. when you have an aircraft that is just retired from operations it is not expensive to maintain it in flying condition. Maybe reduce the operating envelope and speeds to avoid stressing the airframe. And you keep the skills alive and the tools in place for the next lot of riggers and fitters and again it doesn't cost anything just how easy would it have been for the Government to have taken a Concorde from BA, given it to the RAF and said "Fly it and maintain it". They would have had a mob of ex BA Volunteers queuing up to work on it all certified and with all the knowledge necessary. Again not necessarily @ Mach 2 but just so people could hear what that beauty sounded like and see a totally unique aircraft flying.

U wot m8? Do they have a flying Sterling?

1chish blame the government not the RAF!

Simon Berry not any more unfortunately :-(

De Havilland Firestreak Missiles. Dummy rounds.

Much as I would love to, but where would I keep my Lightning, I wonder? It wouldn't be able to go in the garage, and the garden is too small as well.

they had 3 , 2 flying 1 more static than flying and some spares. 1 crashed during an air show which killed the pilot , RIP.

They are still in Cape Town in very good condition

they’d be usless anyways

They are dummy rounds.

cucubau we know the lightening wasn’t a dog fighter but she could do what she was meant to do well and I’m sure if the Cold War went hot these beautiful birds would have downed a fair few fishbeds with their red top missiles

@@thetourettesgamer8851 Well the Mig-21 could go just over Mach 2 (13,000m) else Mach 1 at sea level. Whilst the lightning could reach Mach 2.27 at 12,000m.

Probably would take off the paint which is peeling.

Not true, Britain has then4th largest aerospace industry on earth, worth many many billions. We build lots, just nit lots of whole planes, but every Boeing 777 has 25% British built parts, lots of airbust planes have many British parts. We build all the parts so why don't we build the planes! We should still build them I think.

Everyone loves our RR engines.

Jump Forty Four stopped flying years ago.

Not neccisarily, look at the f14 for example. There isn't a single one of those in flying condition anywhere in the western world

still are?

Exactly , danielnowtny ...I'm afraid national decline !

PUDDING Rodgers Vulcans armed with Blue Steel missiles were still part of the secondary response of Britain's nuclear deterrent. Primary response was RN launched Polaris missiles. The Falklands was the last hurrah for the bomber. It was slowly withdrawn from service tge next year.

He is just showing off , he obviously could not care less