50 Years -The English Electric Lightning

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According to a couple of de-militarised newspaper clippings I have here, the plane was first delivered to the RAF this week half a century ago.

No other plane imo has quite the same purposefulness about it.

_http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/lightning/index.php.

_http://video.google.co.uk/videosearch?hl=en&q=english+electric+lightning&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=GGsBSsSKDJ6RjAe25uj0Bg&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=8&ct=title#
 

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Read and (other contenders to the crown) weep.

_http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/English_Electric_Lightning
 
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