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Lightning Mate
24th Apr 2012, 14:30
You don't often see this kit.....
http://i636.photobucket.com/albums/uu82/Lightning_29/F53.jpg
Ridge Runner
24th Apr 2012, 15:08
ah.. the old recce pack .....
Lightning Mate
24th Apr 2012, 15:15
Correct.......
By George
24th Apr 2012, 22:40
Nice to see the aeroplane is as 'excited' as the pilot, for a change.
alisoncc
25th Apr 2012, 11:56
Could almost be a Blue Steel under there. Never really thought of a Lightning as a long range bomber. Worked on them at 60 MU Leconfield for a while, and don't recollect any bomb bay doors. :ok:
Gulfstreamaviator
25th Apr 2012, 13:43
Dont think so.....
glf
D120A
25th Apr 2012, 16:43
Whatever it was under there, I bet it leaked fuel.
India Four Two
26th Apr 2012, 05:55
A cut-away drawing, photos and details of the recce pack here: Whats New (http://www.spyflight.co.uk/EE-BAC%20Lightning%20F.53.htm)
Prangster
26th Apr 2012, 18:08
Sir a slur on the fine men of Rolls royce. (who never did cure the damn thing)
Lightning Mate
29th Apr 2012, 13:18
It was not a Rolls Royce problem.
It was the feed system from the jettisonable ventral tank on the F1, F1a, F3,
T4, and T5.
The F6/F2a and the "big ventral" export versions did not have this problem since the tanks were integral.
D120A
29th Apr 2012, 15:38
Ah, LM I wish. A cut-in-half empty 44 gallon oil drum under each wing of our F6s in the hangar just about filled up with AVTUR each weekend, to the extent that if it was a bank holiday weekend someone had to come in and empty them on the Sunday afternoon...
It seemed to me that every available cubic inch of structure in the aircraft was a fuel tank, and one by one they all took it in turn to leak. Hence my joke about the recce pod. And you are right, Mr Rolls-Royce's Avon 300 series was a paragon of virtue by comparison.