EE LIGHTNING will fly at uk airshows again

I understand another reason for not flying a Lightning is also control related.
They have a propensity to catch fire and all the control rods run down the central fuselage spine, through nylon, or similar, guides.
Even if the fire is extinguished, the guides then lock onto the rods as they cool down. Heard this from ex-RAF airframe fitter so no reason to doubt it.

Fantasyland……..

Andrewman, I think you need to take a reality check………
As much as most enthusiasts would dearly love to see it, it simply won’t happen, and not just because of the CAA/BAe situation either.
Thundercity is the only place you’ll see a Frightning in the sky, unless the AALO do succeed in getting XS422 airborne again in the US…????

In all honesty Andrew,I think Lightnings flying in the UK will now always be nothing more than a memory.The problem is that the Lightning doesn’t have much in the way of back up systems. If the hydraulics in the flight control curcuit fails,the controls jam,with no manual reversion.The only thing to do is eject and watch helplessly as a good few tonnes of fully fuelled Lightning goes plummetting into a residential area.I know this is a nightmare scenario,but it’s POSSIBLE,and with the UK being so densely populated,the CAA are not willing to chance it.
The only reason Lightning are allowed to fly in places like south Africa is because they have huge areas of open space to play in/over,so should the aircraft come down,there’s little chance of it causing death and destruction on the ground.

Andrewman
For a moment when i read the heading of your post I though that you knew something that we didn’t, but alas no, more speculation.