Sorry, no -  but I just love these brutes:

The English Electric Lightning was well named - It proved to be one of the fastest fighter aircraft of it’s time.

It served throughout the 1960s and well into the Cold War with the RAF, Kuwaiti, and Saudi Air Forces.

The design was radical and innovative, with twin Rolls-Royce engines stacked vertically, and staggered to reduce frontal area. This meant that it had about double the thrust of other aircraft with a similar area.

The performance was impressive even when compared to current fighters 30 years later - It could climb at 50,000 feet a minute, had a top speed of 1,500mph (2,415kph), and at least one climbed to 88,000 feet - which is 59,000 feet above the summit of Everest!

This is an F Mk 6 of 74 Squadron RAF in aluminium finish, armed with 2 Firestreak missiles

This is an F Mk 6 of 5 Squadron RAF in Dark Grey/Dark Green Camouflage, armed with 2 Red Top missiles

Always just looked funky to me. And these remind me of pregnant zebra fish.

Nice job as always though.

My teacher told me a story about his experience with a Lightning. One day he came home from work and his wife asked how his day went. He said, "oh I just went to Scotland today."

Scotland from the Isle of Wight takes about 12 hours by car. What had happened is he’d managed to hitch a lift courtesy of the RAF (he was some leader of a combined cadet force thing at the school) who had taken him to Scotland and back in a couple of hours.

:shock: That would have been an amazing trip!

My old man taught pilots to fly the Lightning - he was in charge of one of the simulators.  It was pretty cool, they had the real cockpit, and hydraulics to simulate movement, and a small scale model of the local area hooked up to a camera/screen system so you could visually identify where you were.

I even got to fly it once - on instruments only, and mangaged to crash vertically at about 900mph…