Do believe that was back in the mid-70's...
I heard the story as follows:
Conc on trials. A/c stopped in mid-east ( Beirut?), trouble broke out all-of-a-sudden and crew scrambled Conc into the air heading West, without filing complete flt.plan.
The Lightning was airborne at night off Cyprus and got a heads-up from the Fighter Controllers to go head on to fast approaching un-identified M2 aircraft (Syrian, Egyptian...??). Unable to get a head-on Red-top lock the Lightning turns but is unable to catch up with rapidly disappearing four blue lights....they don't confirm what it is until apology next day from crew of Concorde.
Now, I heard that story about 2 decades ago, my memory's really hazy - anyone shed any light on it? I think the rumour was that Dave Wooldridge was the Lightning driver...
