EE Lightning Parts Competition

Many thanks for the comprehensive reply ! 🙂

Now, if anyone wants to continue the proper thread……;)

I’ve just had some fun browsing back through this thread which seems to seems to have become a little ‘lost’. So I thought I’d unearth it and cheat a little….

Here’s a panel I have ( fronted by yet another of those Corgi Lightnings – OK,OK : but I can’t afford a real one ! 😮 )

And here’s one in real life – on Lightning XS458…..

And my obvious question is – what is this duct for ? :confused:

( Note : I can’t tell you if your answer is right or not ! 😉 )

Easy one Martin, theres several of those ‘ram’ air ducts dotted around the back end, this one and its opposite ‘number’ are mainly used for No1 pipe cooling air they are purely used for forcing cooling air into the very hot jet pipe areas, 895 degrees C being the JPT limit, so its getting pretty hot back there, which is why when we do static reheat runs you will notice we always remove as many panels round the back as possible as theres no forward air speed to force air down there, it all gets very hot back there 😉

Cheers 🙂

I’ve just had some fun browsing back through this thread which seems to seems to have become a little ‘lost’. So I thought I’d unearth it and cheat a little….

Here’s a panel I have ( fronted by yet another of those Corgi Lightnings – OK,OK : but I can’t afford a real one ! 😮 )

And here’s one in real life – on Lightning XS458…..

And my obvious question is – what is this duct for ? :confused:

( Note : I can’t tell you if your answer is right or not ! 😉 )

Here you go mjr 🙂

Got it!!!!!!, it’s the 250gal ventral fuel tank pressure relief valve.

John.

ok then here’s another one, see if you can tell where this is 😀

Inward vent valve?
250 gal ventral that is.

This is a slightly better photo!!

http://www.strangedangers.com/content/item/7392.html

I seem to remember an amazing photograph that I saw as a child of a Lightning diving in to the ground with the pilot clearly in view as he ejected from the aircraft.

Does anyone remember this or even have a copy of the photo they could post?.

Many thnaks

Mark

I posted this link on modern military a while ago,sorry not good quality !!
http://www.hangout.no/foto/0112lightning_skydive.jpg

I seem to remember an amazing photograph that I saw as a child of a Lightning diving in to the ground with the pilot clearly in view as he ejected from the aircraft.

Does anyone remember this or even have a copy of the photo they could post?.

Many thnaks

Mark

I certainly remember it. There was a very good photo on the front page of the Daily Mirror (back in the days when it was a paper worth reading). Showed a farmhand sitting on a tractor facing away from the aircraft looking back at it over his shoulder.

Belly tank drain??

Here you go mjr 🙂

post 33. yep port leading edge ILS localiser arial connection.
scott c, thats a tough one,. Is it No1 engine IPN exhaust duct on the bottom of the ventral pack??

Looks like a actuator of some description to me. Also was inpressed that the panel you remove to access it it slightly smaller than the part itself! So Lightnings were dogs to work on, the rumours are true! Never been up close and personal with lightning so I’m guessing! I expect to be corrected by someone with more knowledge!!

Very close again PPJ!, it’s a PFCU (powered flying control unit) for the ailerons.

John.

HF Aerial?

Close PPJ, heres my guess.

If it’s port side then it’s the Localiser Aerial, if it’s starboard side then it’s the glide slope aerial.

John.

ok then here’s another one, see if you can tell where this is 😀

Judging by the way the paint looks around it, i’d say it was on the underside of the jet somewhere, belly perhaps? As to it’s purpose, not got a clue! Stab in the dark, some kind of fuel drain.

Top hole Mark!!

Under the skin this one though I still think I am being to easy….

John.

Looks like a actuator of some description to me. Also was inpressed that the panel you remove to access it it slightly smaller than the part itself! So Lightnings were dogs to work on, the rumours are true! Never been up close and personal with lightning so I’m guessing! I expect to be corrected by someone with more knowledge!!

heres another. black dialectric panel on the leading edge

HF Aerial?

Post #30, Is it the headlight from a Triumph Spitfire?

On second thoughts, it looks more like an early nissan Z car, ZX280 perhaps?

lol

ok then here’s another one, see if you can tell where this is 😀

heres another. black dialectric panel on the leading edge.

that was a cracker that last one john.

Depends which side it’s on as to what it’s for….:D .

John.

heres another. black dialectric panel on the leading edge.

that was a cracker that last one john.