A Different Lightning
 

You don't often see this kit.....

http://i636.photobucket.com/albums/u...ing_29/F53.jpg

ah.. the old recce pack .....

Correct.......

Nice to see the aeroplane is as 'excited' as the pilot, for a change.

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:

Saudi_Blue Steel.
 

Dont think so.....

glf

Whatever it was under there, I bet it leaked fuel.

A cut-away drawing, photos and details of the recce pack here: Whats New

I bet it leaked fuel ?
 

Sir a slur on the fine men of Rolls royce. (who never did cure the damn thing)

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.

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.