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Old 4th Sep 2019, 21:09
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Originally Posted by dook
Actually it was a six hour flight.

And I ask all contributors here to refer to Lightning 2 and not Lightning.

Well.....if you want to be picky, the English Electric Lightning was the Lightning II as the Lockheed P38 Lightning was Lightning ‘I’ for the RAF....

However the (US designation F35) is just known as ‘Lightning’ in RAF service, presumably Lightning GR1, or FA1?
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