Originally Posted by
FarWest
We used to contract Concorde to fly large supersonic figures of 8 over the north sea and used Lightnings and F4s to fly practice intercepts against Concorde.
Allegedly a Lightning flown by D*** G****** overtook the Concorde and barrel-rolled around it. The Concorde crew were not impressed.
FW
That seems implausible unless the Concorde was subsonic.
The Lightning had Mach 2 capability, but not for long, hardly enough to climb to Concorde level 60,000 ft and then do barrel rolls.