Lightening Altitude record

[MartyG1987]

Always amazed by video's of the lightening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC8CsVpg64o

Shame there is only 1 flying these days

[SlipStream77]

Have a read about the P42.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEuUpD-wIxw

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Q6xsBwAAQBAJ&a...

Edited by SlipStream77 on Tuesday 22 December 23:58

[aeropilot]

MartyG1987 said:

Always amazed by video's of the lightening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC8CsVpg64o

Shame there is only 1 flying these days

I'm not sure there is even 1 actually.....don't think any of the 3 remaining TC jets have flown for a long while now....??

[Eric Mc]

There was an article in Flypast or Aeroplane Monthly about at least one of the Thunder City Lightnings (note the spelling) flying to an airshow in Namibia not that long ago.

[Trevatanus]

"Lightning"


Although you are also correct in respect of the way it burn fuel, it is quite lighter very quickly!

[Eric Mc]

More like a rocket than an aeroplane

[kooky guy]

Eric Mc said:

There was an article in Flypast or Aeroplane Monthly about at least one of the Thunder City Lightnings (note the spelling) flying to an airshow in Namibia not that long ago.

And there's another one soon to be flying in the US.

[Hooli]

kooky guy said:

Eric Mc said:

There was an article in Flypast or Aeroplane Monthly about at least one of the Thunder City Lightnings (note the spelling) flying to an airshow in Namibia not that long ago.

And there's another one soon to be flying in the US.

XS432 IIRC.