English Electric Lightning F6 at the Yorkshire Air Museum in Elvington, York, Yorkshire.

English Electric Lightning F6 at the Yorkshire Air Museum in Elvington, York, Yorkshire. The Lightning F.6 was a single-seat, twin-engined, fighter interceptor, of all-metal stressed-skin construction, powered by Rolls-Royce Avon turbojets with re-heat. Its initial rate of climb was a colossal 50,000 feet per minute.

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