Bruntingthorpe Lightnings - The very last fast taxi
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- The Lightning preservation group's annual event of the year, starring their three English Electric Lightnings, a pair of F.6s and an F.3.
The F.6s being working examples performed a static reheat and fast taxi for the crowd.
in 2020 the land the airfield sits on was leased to Cox Automotive, who decided to stop the Cold War jet shows from taking place in Favour of storing used Cars on the runway. All the aircraft shown here are now on Static display, but where possible kept in serviceable condition to reduce corrosion.
This subsequently means that this video shows the last ever fast taxi of the definitive lightning mark, the F.6, and leaves just T.5 XS458 at Cranfield Airport the only lightning in the UK potentially capable of fast taxi.
16/11/19
It is an outrage that this has stopped...where are the monied entrepreneurs when you need them..we are talking British Heritage!!
Thanks to the Tories the monied entrepreneurs are all Russian now, hadn't you heard?
It’s a scandal they don’t still do this. It was like a living museum. Stunning to watch, hear and smell.
If you don't own the land, you museum is always at risk of being closed.
Magnificent, preserved Lightnings, closest to thing to air worthiness. I can think of several U.S. jets we should have preserved like this
So much better than the American "widowmaker" . In the 1960s we had the Lightning Display Team at RAF Waddington. Incredible and exciting.
4000 airframes v 300 airframes Sold (F-104 v Lightning) say your talking bollocks, like most British plane spotters. PS Waddington wasn't a Lightning base!!!
In comparison the Lightning made just as much 'victims' as the 104 did.
When Great Britain built her own beautifully designed airplanes, I say this as an American fan.
Deltics and Lightnings - we're on the same page!
English Electrics finest!
It’s sad that we can no longer witness a Lightning passing by on full reheat. The runway is being used as a car park now🙄. At least the LPG are still keeping them live. If you’ve ever stood next to a Lightning with just one engine on reheat, you’ll know what I mean…
Absolutely boils my piss, with all the Millions of £££'s that we waste in this Country, that we don't have an air worthy Lighting, as part of the Memorial Flight, same as the Vulcan!
Too complex of an aircraft the caa wont let one fly without manufacturers support and BAE wont support it
‘’Alycidon Deltic’ and a video about Lightnings. You are obviously a very wise person with a profound interest in some of the finest machines ever built.
This is truly an unbelievable story. Aviation history has to make way for WHAT?
Would be great to go back to the 80's and see these fly again.
MAGNIFICENT !!!.......
Sir, you have exquisite taste,I concur!
Awesome noisy critters, nice to see them been kept up.
We need a fundraiser to get one air worthy like we did the vulcan.
CAA says NO!!!
I believe that there is a Lightning in the US which they are aiming to return to airworthiness. Not sure what happened to the 2/3 Lightnings at Mike Beachy Head's Thunder City operation in Soith Africs which was effectively shut down by the CAA equivalent following an accident and death of Dave Stock one of the experienced pilots there. It would be fantastic to see a Lightning at airshows in the UK. I can't be bothered now, following the grounding of the Vulcan.
Apparently the Thunder City stuff is up for sale and apart from the negligent service of the ejection mechanism which caused the pilots death there were other issues with safety at the site. It is a sad state of affairs that national Governments don't finance jet heritage flight.
Snap. Just ain’t worth the hassle of an air display these days. Would love to see the BBMF , the red arrows etc more often but no nimrod, no Concorde, no harrier no krigsmarine 4 ship F104s ( now that’s going back a bit) and, most especially no XH558. Now I just go, with family, to the Cosby show each September, where, after the tank battle re-enactment they do put on a good show of, mainly, WW2 warbirds.
And what about that Canberra??
Very very cool 😎
Epic
Why arnt theise master pieces in the air
Too much money is diverted to NHS and Benefits. Dust in the wind.
@@jkoysza1 The Aircraft can't fly in the UK without Manufactures support and BAe and Rolls Royce will not support them.
The US government prefers to scrap the F14 rather than allowing private charities to restore and fly. This is a very profound historical error.
@@jkoysza1 That is because they don't want the bits to be sold to Iran and some idiot in the USA would do that to make a quick buck.
@@richardvernon317 no one seems worried about the F4 being flown and maintained. The F14 must still be a capable threat, though it is 50 years old.
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