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40,000 Feet in 150 Seconds: The British Jet That Could Catch a U-2 Spy Plane
Designed in the late 1940s, the English Electric Lightning was a jet so powerful it could climb to 40,000 feet in under 150 ...
When English Electric finalized the P1B design in the mid-1950s, the Royal Air Force suddenly had a weapon that looked less like a fighter and more like a manned missile. Gone was the oval nose intake ...
The English Electric Lightning was Britain's first supersonic jet fighter. But it was more than just a test-bed plane designed to break the sound barrier; it's also a plane with a long and storied ...
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