Friday 2nd September 2011

Pic Of The Week: E-Type And Lightning

Supersonic jet plus motoring icon equals lovely wallpaper, we reckon...

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Today's POTW is surely something to get the small boy in every one of us dribbling and jumping up and down with excitement.

The oh-so-wonderful Jaguar E-Type and the frankly awesome English Electric Lightning have been brought together by our esteemed (and inspired) colleagues over at Classic & Sports Car magazine as part of a supplement to celebrate the Jag's 50th anniversary (and coincidentally the Lightning's half-century).

And if you think there's some sort of clever photographic tricky going on, well you're wrong - this is just man, camera, E-Type and 1500mph Cold War interceptor. Brilliant.

You can read more about this epic meeting in October's issue of C&SC, available now in all good newsagents (and probably some rubbish ones, too).

Oh and, if you don't like our choice of wallpaper, you can pop along to the Classic and Sports Car website and download their version (which is different - not better, just different) for some Jet 'n' classic car goodness...

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[350Wedge]

Two of my favourites!! I've seen that particular Lightning run many a time. If you've never been to Bruntingthorpe to a Cold War Jets day, make sure you do before it gets too expensive to run these sort of things (or they run out of spares)

An easy 10!! and come on own up... who rated it less than 10!!!

[350Wedge]

Dr Boxcat said:

wow, thanks for the info, I've always wanted to hear a lightning run, I thought they weren't flying them anymore at all!

Past fav engine sounds at air shows were the cold war jets, sukhoi fitter being a fav

oh nice pic too btw, may have to shop the gurner out when I get back to work

They dont fly any aircraft (well apart from the Victor )

They perform a high speed taxi, full re-heat up to take off speed. Not just the lightning that runs, you'll see Buccaneers, Hunters, Victor, Comet, Nimrod amongst others.

Here are a couple of photo's to whet your appetite...