To: lizol
Time we brought our English-Electric Lightnings back out of mothballs to intercept these things. Introduced in 1960, they are still the fastest climbing fighter ever at 50,000ft per minute and for those who think the F22 is great because it can 'supercruise' - the Lightning could do that in 1960 and could fly high and fast enough to intercept U2's! :0
44 posted on
07/20/2007 3:13:53 PM PDT by
britemp
To: britemp
Time we brought our English-Electric Lightnings back out of mothballs I saw one at an airshow at Mildenhall a few years back, and boy were those things LOUD! The LOUDEST plane I've ever heard. Did I tell you how LOUD they were? Boy, were they ever LOUD.
48 posted on
07/20/2007 5:30:20 PM PDT by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: britemp
To: britemp
The Lightening had terrible range if you wanted to intercept bombers & could carry around 2 air to air missiles.
To: britemp
No Lightnings in mothballs. Only ones in private hands witha few airframes flying. The Lightnings climb records have long since been overtaken.
58 posted on
07/21/2007 1:51:50 AM PDT by
Tommyjo
To: britemp
and fast enough to intercept U2's! :0No need to get too excited, U-2s are subsonic; max speed at altitude being ~450 KIAS.
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