Originally Posted by Downwind.Maddl-Land
(In my search I did find a photo of an F2A that appeared to have the 2 x 30s in the ventral tank).
That site does not allow direct links to its photos. You might copy the pic to another pic hosting site and try it or just post the link to the original here.
Bear in mind that this is a museum aircraft (retired in the late 70's) and these do get refurbished with non-original parts from time to time, and that belly tank looks very clean compared to the rest of the airframe.....maybe a replacement ventral tank from one of the late 80's/early 90's scrapped F.6's which would have had the forward belly tank 2 30's.......
Note the two F.2 lower nose gun ports blanked off, as per all the in-service F.2A photos I can find showing this. Another reason I suspect this is a replacement F.6 ventral tank fitted at some point by the museum.
Originally Posted by BOAC
I am sure I recall seeing a 6 gun fit on a 2A somewhere.
Likewise, which is why I spent a sad hour or so at the weekend shifting through Lightning 'stuff'......
Had a vague feeling it was a Warton trials aircraft or one of the export fit SBAC publicty photos from the sixties, rather than a RAF sqn service aircraft. Couldn't find it though.....
