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The English Electric Lightning - Britain’s wild interceptor was a masterpiece and a mess
The Lightning’s road to service was full of bold ideas, stubborn engineering battles, and some deeply awkward compromises.
When English Electric finalized the P1B design in the mid-1950s, the Royal Air Force suddenly had a weapon that looked less like a fighter and more like a manned missile. Gone was the oval nose intake ...
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