The English Electric Lightning was some crazy shiznit of a point defence interceptor...

[RbSX]

Originally posted by: So
Yeah, the English were way ahead of everyone but the Germans on jet tech during the war too.

No they weren't, Hitler had jets ready to fly before the end of WW2.

Get your facts straight.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Originally posted by: RyanSengara

Originally posted by: So
Yeah, the English were way ahead of everyone but the Germans on jet tech during the war too.

No they weren't, Hitler had jets ready to fly before the end of WW2.

Get your facts straight.

They appear to be straight.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: RyanSengara

Originally posted by: So
Yeah, the English were way ahead of everyone but the Germans on jet tech during the war too.

No they weren't, Hitler had jets ready to fly before the end of WW2.

Get your facts straight.

Did you see his but? It's a signifigant but and carries much meaning.

In the future you may want to pay more attention to his but.

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: RyanSengara

Originally posted by: So
Yeah, the English were way ahead of everyone but the Germans on jet tech during the war too.

No they weren't, Hitler had jets ready to fly before the end of WW2.

Get your facts straight.

wasn't the jet engine a british invention?

hitler had a few jets at the end sure, but not enough to do anything at all really.

as for the german nuke project yes, they had a small one. think the japanese did too, much in korea..which became north korea..hmm me thinks they left a bit too much behind

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: Snapster

Originally posted by: Pocatello
The Brits always had great ideas, such as the slanted deck on aircraft carriers, but always short on money. The V/STOL Harrier jets is another great example of British ingenuity.

Short on money because the wars ran us dry. We also had to give up allot of top secret tech to the US as part of them agreeing to help in the war.

like handing the secret of jet engines to the russians eh?
that was free too

 

[Horus]

Originally posted by: everman

Originally posted by: dug777

Originally posted by: everman
U2 is an unarmed spy plane. And it still won't keep up with the SR-71

my bad, but when was the SR-71 produced?

This plane was designed and flown so long ago it's scary...

SR-71 was in 1962.
The Electric was 1957. A significant, but not huge gap in time.

The Avro Arrow was 1957 as well. A very important quote from the Wiki article

"Sustained a speed of Mach 1.98 at 3/4 throttle." That was with underpowered engines. The Iroqois engines that were to be installed could push it beyond Mach 3.

Canada's HUGEST blunder...

 

[Bulk Beef]

Originally posted by: RyanSengara

Originally posted by: So
Yeah, the English were way ahead of everyone but the Germans on jet tech during the war too.

No they weren't, Hitler had jets ready to fly before the end of WW2.

Get your facts straight.

Gloster Meteor

 

[Aquaman]

At least that plane went into production. Canadas only Jet Plane never went into production

Avro Arrow

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[Horus]

Originally posted by: Aquaman
At least that plane went into production. Canadas only Jet Plane never went into production

Avro Arrow

Cheers,
Aquaman

Ah-ah. Not true. We did have the CF-100 Canuck.

 

[Aquaman]

Originally posted by: Horus

Originally posted by: Aquaman
At least that plane went into production. Canadas only Jet Plane never went into production

Avro Arrow

Cheers,
Aquaman

Ah-ah. Not true. We did have the CF-100 Canuck.

Well....... I should say they never went into service....... I think they had 5 prototypes which where destroyed after the program was cancelled.

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: dug777

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: dug777

Originally posted by: everman

Originally posted by: dug777

Originally posted by: everman

Originally posted by: dug777

Originally posted by: everman
U2 is an unarmed spy plane. And it still won't keep up with the SR-71

my bad, but when was the SR-71 produced?

This plane was designed and flown so long ago it's scary...

SR-71 was in 1962.
The Electric was 1957. A significant, but not huge gap in time.

Wiki says first flown in 54...but you know wiki

Which would make it a "very" significant amount of time

I at first posted 54, but then it says 57 for maiden flight, so I went with that. It's impressive, but everyone knows that the SR-71 Blackbird is the coolest plane ever

lol, wiki gives the first flight of a SR-71 Blackbird as 64

You'll note that the max attained altitude of the Lightning is quite a bit higher then the Blackbird too...again, it's wiki tho

No, it's not. From Wiki

Canberra-
Service ceiling: 60,000 ft (18,000 m)

Blackbird -
Service ceiling: 85,000 ft (25 900 m)

We're not talking about the Canberra, but the Lightning

Oops, lol.
The figure is right though, I just titled it incorrectly.

I said 'attained altitude', not 'official service ceiling'

 

[KillerCharlie]

The Electric Lightning was certainly a sweet airplane.

 

[skyking]

I remember reading about certain maneuvers they performed in the Empire Test Pilot School (ETPS), using the lightning. They retired the lightning in 1992.

 

[Stumps]

I always liked the English Electric Lighting. very cool Fighter

Not far from where I live, in my home town of Temora NSW, the local Air museum has a FULLY OPERATIONAL Gloster meteor F.1, De haviland Vampire and Canberra Bomber as well as Australia's only operational Supermarine Spitfire.

They aren't just on display either, you can often see them flying over Temora, the Meteor and Vampire sure are noisy

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: dug777

I said 'attained altitude', not 'official service ceiling'

attained altitude on the blackbird is still classified.