Lightning Mate
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Picking up newt's "challenge" ...
I can't comment on the "best" or "fastest" but I knew Pete Stone a long time ago ... where legend has it that he, in the late 70's early 80's, took a T Bird Lightning super sonic, at below mast height, past a Rusian Trawler "Earwigging" down in the Med ... which, after the event, he regarded as a legitimate enemy intercept. Must have been interesting for the Trawler crew !
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Coff.
What about "Who was the best Lightning pilot?" or " What's the fastest you have ever been in a Lightning?"
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Coff.
Yes.
You only need 0.97 to 0.98 with 6g to throw quite a nice bang.
Lots of us have done it.
On the receiving end it looks like this:
You only need 0.97 to 0.98 with 6g to throw quite a nice bang.
Lots of us have done it.
On the receiving end it looks like this:
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You degrade yourself.
We were just a bunch of ordinary guys doing a professional job.
We were not called "Fast Jet Pilots" in those days - we were "Fighter Pilots".
We were just a bunch of ordinary guys doing a professional job.
We were not called "Fast Jet Pilots" in those days - we were "Fighter Pilots".
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I can't comment on the "best" or "fastest"
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No he didn't - another "Lightning Myth".
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Did someone (name forgotten) claim to have got to 85K+ over Saudi ? What is the known "official" height acheived ?
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Wrote a book on the Lightning a good few years ago and was helped greatly by Brian Carroll. He sent me his account of getting to 87,300ft (indicated) over Saudi in 1979. Also included the account of Dave Roome who claimed to have got to 87,800ft near Tengah in 1968. Are you saying the latter claim is incorrect?
Wrote a book on the Lightning a good few years ago and was helped greatly by Brian Carroll. He sent me his account of getting to 87,300ft (indicated) over Saudi in 1979. Also included the account of Dave Roome who claimed to have got to 87,800ft near Tengah in 1968. Are you saying the latter claim is incorrect?
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