Lightning Mate

You don't often see this kit.....

Ridge Runner

ah.. the old recce pack .....

Lightning Mate

Correct.......

By George

Nice to see the aeroplane is as 'excited' as the pilot, for a change.

alisoncc

Could almost be a Blue Steel under there. Never really thought of a Lightning as a long range bomber. Worked on them at 60 MU Leconfield for a while, and don't recollect any bomb bay doors.

Gulfstreamaviator

Dont think so.....

glf

D120A

Whatever it was under there, I bet it leaked fuel.

India Four Two

A cut-away drawing, photos and details of the recce pack here: Whats New

Prangster

Sir a slur on the fine men of Rolls royce. (who never did cure the damn thing)

Lightning Mate

It was not a Rolls Royce problem.

It was the feed system from the jettisonable ventral tank on the F1, F1a, F3,
T4, and T5.

The F6/F2a and the "big ventral" export versions did not have this problem since the tanks were integral.

D120A

Ah, LM I wish. A cut-in-half empty 44 gallon oil drum under each wing of our F6s in the hangar just about filled up with AVTUR each weekend, to the extent that if it was a bank holiday weekend someone had to come in and empty them on the Sunday afternoon...

It seemed to me that every available cubic inch of structure in the aircraft was a fuel tank, and one by one they all took it in turn to leak. Hence my joke about the recce pod. And you are right, Mr Rolls-Royce's Avon 300 series was a paragon of virtue by comparison.