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Excellent aircraft when Britain had got it right - Duncan Sandys, the dreadful man of British aviation and usurper of technological genius stated that: 'unfortunately, the Lightning programme has gone too far ahead to cancel'. Thank heavens that was the case. Although the cost of putting/keeping the Lightning in service was very high. High fuel consumption (I believe quoted as 150 lbs. 'per second') and maintenance time per flying hour was high. On the recommendation of BAC to the RAF, the serious upgrades for the belly tank and overwing fuel tanks helped, but with perfection, there's bound to be a few headaches. My favourite is the FMK6, in the 'bluish' colour scheme as seen at RAF Hendon Museum. A true legend!

Mach 2.3 and 87,300 feet, ballistic, of course.

I have read the comments above as to the speed of the Lightning. I was taught at school in South Africa by a retired RAF pilot. He told me that the Lightning was capable of mach 3 and that they often used to intercept U2 spy planes at over 100,000ft just to tee the yanks off. Yes gentlemen, this plane was fast, very fast and with the exception of the Foxbat, perhaps the fastest combat aircraft ever produced!

I have a book on the lightning by Ian Black lots of great photographs but not much text.Did he write another one?

I an suprized a know it all like Mr Rudnicki does not know this, read FLT LT Ian Blacks book and find out, do not form opinions with half the facts.

Were the tankers running standing patrols or did they scramble with the intercepters?

The short endurance was no handicap for this intercepter it had a pipe stuck out of its left wing for air to air refueling so it could plug in to a Valiant or later a Victor tanker then roar of on full tanks. Although it only carried two missiles its superior performance ment it could get in to a perfect fireing position on any aircraft as lots of gun camera shots show.

I thought I was wrong but I was mistaken. At least I didn't multiple click. 5 times. You must have been excited. Firestreak it is. Still, endurance and weapons load are assets Lightning did not possess.

The Lightning was a fast (very fast)interceptor and to this day it is possibly the fastest aircraft to fly with the R.A.F. The ever contraversial Mr.Runicki has again made one or two errors in his sumation. The Lightning was armed firstly in the F1A and F2 with D.H.Firestreak infra red homing missiles and then latterly on F3 and F6 the supposedly more capable but less reliable Red Top missile. I for one wuold be fascinated to know when the Lightning was ever armed with the SkyFlash. There is no doubt that the Lightning was of limited range and endurance especially when reheat was engaged. Pilots have commented on many occasions watching the fuel gauges with alarm as the fuel was sucked through the engines at an increasing rate. However, in its later life this truly great plane could outfly the F15 and F16 with recorded camera gun shots
proving the point.It did intercept Russian Bombers on an almost daily basis, what it could not do was CAP (combat air patrol)for which it was never designed. It is true that the Aden cannon was deleted from the F2 and F3 but was re-established on the F6 after all you can't fire across the bows of an intruder with an air to air missile!

The Lightning was a fast (very fast)interceptor and to this day it is possibly the fastest aircraft to fly with the R.A.F. The ever contraversial Mr.Runicki has again made one or two errors in his sumation. The Lightning was armed firstly in the F1A and F2 with D.H.Firestreak infra red homing missiles and then latterly on F3 and F6 the supposedly more capable but less reliable Red Top missile. I for one wuold be fascinated to know when the Lightning was ever armed with the SkyFlash. There is no doubt that the Lightning was of limited range and endurance especially when reheat was engaged. Pilots have commented on many occasions watching the fuel gauges with alarm as the fuel was sucked through the engines at an increasing rate. However, in its later life this truly great plane could outfly the F15 and F16 with recorded camera gun shots
proving the point.It did intercept Russian Bombers on an almost daily basis, what it could not do was CAP (combat air patrol)for which it was never designed. It is true that the Aden cannon was deleted from the F2 and F3 but was re-established on the F6 after all you can't fire across the bows of an intruder with an air to air missile!

The Lightning was a fast (very fast)interceptor and to this day it is possibly the fastest aircraft to fly with the R.A.F. The ever contraversial Mr.Runicki has again made one or two errors in his sumation. The Lightning was armed firstly in the F1A and F2 with D.H.Firestreak infra red homing missiles and then latterly on F3 and F6 the supposedly more capable but less reliable Red Top missile. I for one wuold be fascinated to know when the Lightning was ever armed with the SkyFlash. There is no doubt that the Lightning was of limited range and endurance especially when reheat was engaged. Pilots have commented on many occasions watching the fuel gauges with alarm as the fuel was sucked through the engines at an increasing rate. However, in its later life this truly great plane could outfly the F15 and F16 with recorded camera gun shots
proving the point.It did intercept Russian Bombers on an almost daily basis, what it could not do was CAP (combat air patrol)for which it was never designed. It is true that the Aden cannon was deleted from the F2 and F3 but was re-established on the F6 after all you can't fire across the bows of an intruder with an air to air missile!

The Lightning was a fast (very fast)interceptor and to this day it is possibly the fastest aircraft to fly with the R.A.F. The ever contraversial Mr.Runicki has again made one or two errors in his sumation. The Lightning was armed firstly in the F1A and F2 with D.H.Firestreak infra red homing missiles and then latterly on F3 and F6 the supposedly more capable but less reliable Red Top missile. I for one wuold be fascinated to know when the Lightning was ever armed with the SkyFlash. There is no doubt that the Lightning was of limited range and endurance especially when reheat was engaged. Pilots have commented on many occasions watching the fuel gauges with alarm as the fuel was sucked through the engines at an increasing rate. However, in its later life this truly great plane could outfly the F15 and F16 with recorded camera gun shots
proving the point.It did intercept Russian Bombers on an almost daily basis, what it could not do was CAP (combat air patrol)for which it was never designed. It is true that the Aden cannon was deleted from the F2 and F3 but was re-established on the F6 after all you can't fire across the bows of an intruder with an air to air missile!

The Lightning was a fast (very fast)interceptor and to this day it is possibly the fastest aircraft to fly with the R.A.F. The ever contraversial Mr.Runicki has again made one or two errors in his sumation. The Lightning was armed firstly in the F1A and F2 with D.H.Firestreak infra red homing missiles and then latterly on F3 and F6 the supposedly more capable but less reliable Red Top missile. I for one wuold be fascinated to know when the Lightning was ever armed with the SkyFlash. There is no doubt that the Lightning was of limited range and endurance especially when reheat was engaged. Pilots have commented on many occasions watching the fuel gauges with alarm as the fuel was sucked through the engines at an increasing rate. However, in its later life this truly great plane could outfly the F15 and F16 with recorded camera gun shots
proving the point.It did intercept Russian Bombers on an almost daily basis, what it could not do was CAP (combat air patrol)for which it was never designed. It is true that the Aden cannon was deleted from the F2 and F3 but was re-established on the F6 after all you can't fire across the bows of an intruder with an air to air missile!

The lightning was the fastest and the fastest climbing fighter of it's day. It had no range and carried only two Red-Top or Skyflash missiles. It was not able to intercept Soviet Bombers carrying stand-off missiles, for which the RAF used F-4's with 4 Sparrows & Sidewinders. The job that Tornado F-3 was made for. Lightning was a creation of the government.

The lightning was the world’s best fighter from 1964 to the late 70's, when the US introduced the F15 into squadron service. The lightning pioneered many things, but one of these pioneering features which is rarely commented on, was the relatively low wing loading of the Lightning wing combined with a highly swept leading edge. This enabled the aircraft to be efficient at high speed flight but also to be manoeuvrable. That is why the Lightning was not only amongst the fastest fighter aircraft ever, but also easily the most manoeuvrable of its day. Today, all other fighter aircraft have copied the Lightning concept of a highly swept wing combined with a low wing loading. Compare and contrast with the F104, fast but hopeless at air combat manoeuvring.

I saw several of these aircraft in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia in the early 1980s. Royal Saudi Air Force?

A wonderful airshow aircraft. Climb like a rocket, lots of noise in reheat (a/b), real fast. No gas, no ammo, 2 shots with crappy red-tops and its RTB. No need for a thermos of tea. You'll be back soon or under silk. The a/c was chosen by politicians 'cause it was cheaper than a real combat a/c. It was a research plane. that is why no stores stations,or endurance. Never had it till Tornado F3. Remember Dunkirk and Dieppe when the RAF couldn't put a cap on the coast of France. Fuel and ammo.

I have heard that real service ceiling exceeded 21000 meters but it was keft a confidential information throughout the whole service life of the Lightning

I was at RAF Wattisham in the early seventees with Treble One and Twenty Nine squadrons, both flying Mk3 Lightnings.
An exceptional aircraft for any day!

As a kid I remember watching film of Lightnings taking off on fast intercept. They would leave the runway, basically stand on their tails and go straight up. Awesome!

An exceptional aircraft for its day