The English Electric Lightning jet was a British interceptor aircraft used from the 1960s to 1980s. Here's what we know about this impressive fighter.

This is one jet that still knows how to put on a show. ... 2025. I got to witness an absolutely extreme and thunderous fast taxi run by the legendary English Electric Lightning ...

On August 4, 1954, fighter pilot Roland Beamont took the P1 English Electric Lightning on its maiden flight. Coming during a time when a technology pioneered in Britain, the English Electric ...

The supersonic English Electric Lightning was designed to intercept Soviet bombers and served as a mainstay of the RAF during the Cold War.. Jet XR724 first flew on 10 February 1965 and spent ...

The name "Lightning II" pays homage to Lockheed's World War II P-38 Lightning aircraft and U.K.'s English Electric Lightning, a supersonic fighter that entered service in the 1950s.

The Yorkshire Air Museum has Lightning F.6 XS903 amongst its aircraft collection, with the F.6 being recognised as the ultimate version, as it was also fitted with Aden canons, in addition to wing ...

English Electric Lightning Image source, Mirrorpix/Getty Images The Lightning was developed to bring the RAF into the supersonic age, serving from the 1960s into the late 1980s ...