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English Electric Lightning
EE Lightning F6 XS904 BQ (7173086416).jpg
RAF's English Electric Lightning.
Role Fighter jet.
National origin UK
Manufacturer English Electric
First flight 1954
Introduction 1959
Status Out of service
Primary user Royal Air Force
Number built 337 examples

The English Electric Lightning is a British fighter jet. It is a twin-turbojet. It was used by the Royal Air Force for the Cold War and by air forces of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

Images for kids

  • English Electric P.1 (27898298121)

    P1A

  • English Electric Lightning F3, UK - Air Force AN1127832

    Lightning F.3 in flight, 1983

  • EE Lightning F6 XS904 BQ (7173122840)

    Lightning F.6 XS904 after a high-speed taxi run at 2012 Cold War Jets Day, Bruntingthorpe

  • English Electric Lightning F3, UK - Air Force AN2056574

    Underside of a Lightning F.3 with undercarriage deployed, 23 June 1979

  • Cockpit EE Lightning Man 9 7 11 - T.A.S Fair weekend (5919467648)

    F.6 cockpit

  • Lightnings of No 56 Squadron during Armament Practice Camp at Akrotiri. MOD 45133286

    56 Sqn Lightning receives Firestreaks at Akrotiri, 1963.

  • English Electric Lightning Ysterplaat Airshow-2006-09-23

    Lightning in flight at the Ysterplaat Airshow, Cape Town, September 2006

  • English Electric Lightning F1A, UK - Air Force AN0675731

    A Royal Air Force Lightning F.1A at Yeovilton, 8 September 1973

  • Lightning diamond

    Nine Lightning F.1s of No.74 Squadron display at the 1961 SBAC show, Farnborough

  • EE Lightning T.55 55-714 RSAF COLT 14.09.68 edited-3

    Saudi Air Force T.55 at RAF Coltishall, in use by No. 226 Operational Conversion Unit for training Saudi pilots, 1968

  • EE Lightning F.53 418 G-AXEE Kuw LEB 07.06.69 edited-5

    Kuwait Air Force Lightning F.53 in 1969 with both underwing and overwing SNEB pods

  • Ee lightning t4 xm974 arp

    Lightning T.4 at Farnborough Airshow, England, in 1964

  • HH-53C lifts BAC Lightning 1987

    A USAF Sikorsky HH-53C helicopter of the 67th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron lifts a Lightning at RAF Woodbridge, Suffolk, 18 December 1987.

  • English Electric Sea Lightning FAW.1 top-view silhouette

    The "Sea Lightning" concept

  • Royal Saudi Air Force Lightning

    Royal Saudi Air Force Lightning F.53 gate guardian at the King Faisal air base in Tabuk

  • XP702-LightningF3-1980

    Lightning F.3 of 11 Squadron in 1980

  • Electric Lighting & Jaguar (Cape Town, South Africa, 2002)

    ZU-BEX Electric Lightning T5, alongside a Jaguar E-Type, at Thunder City, Cape Town, South Africa, 2002

  • Lightning at RAF Akrotiri

    English Electric Lightning (XS929), displayed as a gate guardian at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus

  • English Electric Lightning F.6, Warner-Robbins Air Museum, Georgia

    Lightning F.6 at the Museum of Aviation, Warner Robins, Georgia, United States, now at on display at Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona

  • XM135 Duxford

    Lightning F1 XM135 at Imperial War Museum, Duxford

  • Cosford- Royal Air Force Museum- English Electric Lightning suspended from the ceiling (geograph 5765866)

    Lightning F.1, serial XG337 on display at the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford

See also

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