Age before Beauty
Mike you look so young in that picture! I knew jaguar Pilots were strange creatures but i was unaware of the cross dressing that went on!
As to the Lightning max speed was 625Kts with probe and 650Kts without IAS- this is from memory so i stand to be corrected. Above 650kts the aircraft was a bit of a handful to fly straight with the ball often off to one side flying with a boot of rudder and cross controls. I guess the limit was a structural one for the big Fin. Often pilots would "trample" the rudders to slow down...well untell they started falling off. As an aside in a different fighter i managed 886Kts at 250feet- was i scared.......not at all.......much!
as to were she is i think i married her...