I was watching the a/m program the other day. During the program, a silver British Lightning showed up, mentioned as a special equipped, high altitude research aircraft (Or words like that)
I guess the interceptor origin of the aircraft showed when the pilot, after retracting the landing gear and keeping it low above the runway for a few seconds – to build up sufficient airspeed I assume? – yanked the stick backward and made an almost vertical climb.
Short, but very impressive scenes 🙂
Which Lightning could that be?
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By: Firebird - 31st July 2009 at 10:56
I was watching the a/m program the other day. During the program, a silver British Lightning showed up, mentioned as a special equipped, high altitude research aircraft (Or words like that)
I guess the interceptor origin of the aircraft showed when the pilot, after retracting the landing gear and keeping it low above the runway for a few seconds – to build up sufficient airspeed I assume? – yanked the stick backward and made an almost vertical climb.
Short, but very impressive scenes 🙂
Which Lightning could that be?
The natural metal one was ZU-BEX (XS451), and the black one used as the film camera ship in the air was ZU-BBD (XS452).
You might even get a post from ‘salad fingers’ on this subject 😉 🙂
By: pagen01 - 31st July 2009 at 09:27
I know it was one of the Thunder City Lightnings based in Cape Town, South Africa, not sure which one though. Here is a link to their site – you can even fly in one!
http://www.thundercity.com/pages/499409045/about-us/history.asp
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July 31, 2009 at 9:17 am