English Electric Lightning . Music Video

[@rayrichards5375]

Brilliant. Thanks for posting this. The greatest ever jet fighter to serve the RAF. I have so many fantastic memories of them with 56 Sqn at Akrotiri in the late 1960's and never tire of watching the 'Frightening'.

[@yolkhere]

NOVO/FROG nostalgia of childhood :)

[@mahbubsamad9006]

Its so nice 😮

[@nervo6321]

Marvellous footage of the P1 and the P1B.....thanks for posting.... saw my first Lightning display when i was 11 years old i am now 56 years old and still regularly attend airshows but have yet to see any aircraft as exciting or awe inspiring as a Lightning in all its glory at full power.....

[@sichere]

Indeed and most people just don't get it but the Swedish did with the single engine Drakken, as it was the only thing that came close to an EEL. The Typhoon flies in the sky with all the grace of a Matador but the EEL split the sky and filled it with fire, an absolutely astounding aircraft. I can only imagine what a four ship launch of EEL's with reheat would be 😎😎

[@68orangecrate26]

Very nice…

[@tonylockhart1963]

What a tremendous video. Thanks for posting.

[@woooster17]

Tailstrike at 6:45? When the best of British meant something! She's a wonderful bird, commonly referred to though as 'the Frightening'

[@Streaky100001]

Looked like tail strike, though it may have been deliberate if that's film from the flight testing in the early days of the lightning prior to going into RAF operational service, there would be a period where she would be operated by a test and evaluation squadron to essentially write the pilots handbook for the aircraft, one of the tests common to new aircraft is to see what the slowest possible speed the aircraft will leave the ground at is, this is done by setting off down the runway and pulling back on the stick almost immediately, the nose is raised as soon as it will come up, the idea is to raise the nose until the tail is just about touching the ground (i.e. the best angle of attack you can possibly achieve without smacking the tail into the ground) and hold it there until the aircraft lifts off, this will give you lift off at the slowest possible speed for that configuration of the aircraft. To avoid damage to the airframe they typically place a sacrificial metal block under the tail, so it is this that hits the ground, not the aircraft structure. This being said I can't be certain that this is what's happening here, could just be a genuine tail strike.

[@sichere]

and @ 0:08 but they could be cleaning the runway with 40,000 lb of thrust. The runway surfaces take a beating.

[@sichere]

@@Streaky100001 You're spot on but I don't think it is a deliberate tail strike or the one @ 0:08 - could be the same take off.- as there doesn't appear to be a strike plate. It could be a dusty bit of runway- hopefully 😂😂

[@Streaky100001]

@@sichere I hadn't spotted the one at 0:08... That's definitely not the same takeoff though, different aircraft, the one at 0:08 is the English Electric P1, which was an early prototype that later was developed into the lightning, while the one at 6:45 is a bonefide lightning. Look at the shape of the noses for the clearest difference between the two :) You're right that there's no obvious strike plate, it's a little hard to tell with older grainy footage like this though, but you've definitely got a point. I think certainly the incident at 6:45 has to have been a strike, at the point of "strike" it looks like there's a slight... wobble, for want of a better term, from the aircraft as though it did touch the runway.

[@muammeryacob7690]

Special and different design, I loved the lightning since I saw it and read about it in a book when I was a kid in early 1980s.

[@markrayton6385]

Fantastic. The best video of Lightnings I have seen on here and good music. Always was and always will be my favourite aircraft. Spent most of my teens up at Binbrook watching these in the 80’s. Thanks for sharing.

[@346Moody]

Amazing footage

[@davegoodridge9840]

Awesome, goosebumps and a big big smile, thanks, my father was a pattern maker at EE, made my day :-)

[@sichere]

The F22 of it's day. Even the F15 couldn't live with it.

[@rekkof1]

Great music for a great Aircraft

[@mixxavalev349]

like this airplane, kinda english "greek capital lambda wing" equivalent to soviet 'balalayka' MiG-21 with "greek capital delta wing"

[@rekkof1]

Great video and music,and a great airplane that i will never forget,was with 226 OCU

[@adamfox3733]

3 Dislikes are from Soviet Bomber crew.

[@veritasvincit2745]

Thoroughly enjoyed the video footage of the Lightning and the music. Thanks!

[@MagicIVFR]

Great film. Thanks.

[@upthebees]

Wow!

[@rovercoupe7104]

Interesting leading edge on the prototype. M.

[@andrewgreen7996]

Cold War jets at there best 👌Imagine flying one these jets some young office out off Cranwell man what a rush forgat your fast cars this is living on the edge simple mach 2 plus go on son 😳👏

[@ashembers8414]

Great footage of a real boys own aircraft

[@vik4487]

awesome vid, can I suggest you make a AV-8 Harrier vid as well, would love to see that one :)

[@villavic59]

went to every airshow at raf finningly from the age of 6,living only 4 miles away in rossington,,would of loved this to go 1 to 1 with a mig.

[@حسينالنجفي-ث5و]

I wish the plane اعشق الطائرات

[@BABOOMSKI]

top video of a stunning interceptor...what is the music?

[@yolkhere]

I edited, check the remark to video

[@Plumbership]

Best of British :D

[@sichere]

Tail strike @ 0:08

[@markpowell1026]

I lived near RAF Wattisham. Still got photos of the Lightnings taken from emergency field gates... Last time I saw one flying was '84, over the East Coast when sailing from Grimsby to Gt Yarmouth. Awesome aircraft. What is the large aircraft on the runway during the low level pass?

[@андреймарченко-р9ф]

4:45 I can’t say for sure, but what caught my eye, besides 4 engines, is the rear landing gear and it seems to have cropped / straight wingtips. maybe B-17 but endings ... I don’t remember those they have p.s. sorry for google translation

[@rovercoupe7104]

Looks like a Shackleton. M.

[@feckenblinken7985]

The real Thunderbird One

[@rashidabdul5429]

Infront it looks pregnant.

[@shirleydrury5565]

👍👍👍👍

[@historiadaaviacao.4274]

Show

[@carlosbrites8201]

👍

[@soushianth]

فکر کنم اسکادران هوایی یوگوسلاوی سابق بود

[@неспешиотвечать]

Warum, hast geschmissen?

[@неспешиотвечать]

Чё, бросил то?

[@alexandermathar7780]

Da hätte man gleich Judas Priest Painkiller nehmen können.

[@davidpeters6536]

One of the greatest planes ever built. Shame about the 80s elecro rock (Vangellis meets Kraftwerk), I mute it and play Led Zep over the video.

[@SpeedFireARL]

да, с чем с чем, а с мощными движками у англичан никогда проблем небыло

[@alexandrpetuhov4925]

нигогда французов не уважал в небе - но тут показали класс

[@seanjoseph8637]

Severe lack of tailenders.

[@KevinSmith-vv2jd]

It's so ugly it could be considered a work of modern art.

[@id_Usher]

Why are the English so strange, they have everything like not people? Planes are strange, tanks are strange, ships are strange.

[@CR-sj7xd]

NATO jets don't fit retro music at all... anyway this plane was the only one that got some respect by USSR pilots lol