Until very recently you could pay £5k
For a trip in a BAe Lightning - the proper one, not the new fangled plastic F-35.
(, Mon 30 Jul 2012, 21:33, Reply)
some forrin air force?
I was aware of a project to keep one going at Bruntingthorpe but I thought all you got there was a taxi as it didn't have an airworthiness certificate?
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Sort of...Classic Jets in Cape Town
The Lightnings were ex-RAF and maintained and flown by ex-RAF folk. All went well until a 2 seater Lightning (ZU-BEX) well out of the sky at an air show a while back and the whole operation was grounded.
(, Mon 30 Jul 2012, 22:09, Reply)
Awww :-(
My uncle flew Vulcans (too tall for fighters, an ejection would have cleaved his kneecaps off on the cockpit frame), his mate did Lightnings and Phantoms, and then got a secondment to the USAF where he got to learn the F-15. He said the F-4 was a handful but at least if you ended up in a flat spin you could deploy the landing drag chute which pulled you back into line, then automatically snapped off as you throttled away from the situation. With shit in your pants, presumably.
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Lightnings and F-15s are quite similar in terms of performance so I hear
Mike Hale has flown both and makes some interesting comparisons. The Lightning was actually very agile too.
My old chap designed bits of Lightnings, Victors, Buccaneers and stuff. He's got a lot of Lightning related stories.
(, Mon 30 Jul 2012, 22:30, Reply)
Dude!
:-)
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