Yes I’m still that way if I really want it. We got it to easy these days but I like it the technology we have now it could have came at a time when some us are aging and can’t do this intense scratchy like this.
Lightning T4 Matchbox Airfix cut 'n shut
- Thread starter Miko
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PROBERLY THE LAST LIGHTNING FLIGHT ? because they dint fly much after the late 8o's
Is that you in the photo miko
Unfortunately not, it's Sqn Ldr Derek 'grinner' Smith
Sort of, this photo was taken after the last ever firing of 'Redtop' missile, the following day the Lightning stood down from NATO handing over QRA to 56sqn at RAF Wattisham after 28 years service with the Royal Air Force.
The last flight of a Lightning in the UK was 23rd July 1992 where F6 XR724 returned home to RAF Binbrook. . . .
. . . and 'I' was there! unfortunately I can't find the photos I took that day!
XR724 is still at Binbrook owned by the 'The Lightning Association' who recently started the engines on the 27th April this year, 36 years to the day after it stood down from NATO
As you know, the Lightning continued to fly at Thunder City in Cape Town airport South Africa until 2009.
The ex Empire Test Pilot School T5 XS422 is currently in the US with the 'Anglo American Lightning Organisation' who fully intend to return her to the sky! So, the flying history of the Lightning may not be over just yet!
Miko (planning a Lightning build in my head right now!)
Just how close are you to proposing a Lightning GB? With the rest of us playing 'catch up'...
That never occured to me, I just assumed it had already been done
. . . but now you mention it! Ha!
Miko (conforming to experimental requirement ER103)
Well that will give me a excuse to build a jet alright.
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