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Jets! When Britain Ruled The Skies. Part 4.

Jets! When Britain Ruled The Skies. Part 4.





Source: BBC Archive. Jets! When Britain Ruled The Skies. Part 4.





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Added: Aug-25-2012 
By: CargeLock
In: Weapons, Science and Technology, History
Tags: cold war, post war, jets, great britain, raf, planes, aircraft, cargelock
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  • excellent documentary excellent quality voted.

    Posted Aug-25-2012 By 
    anglosaxonwarlord (13623.54)  
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  • Britain was ready to break the sound barrier until the project was scraped and gave to America. Britain was also well advanced with rocket technology to launch satellites with the Black night rocket. That too was scraped. Sometimes I wonder who's side our leaders where on in those days.

    Posted Aug-25-2012 By 
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  • As a kid,i used to watch the Lightnings taking off from the nearby airbase and always amazed me with how they went vertical moments after leaving the tarmac.Seeing them on film is nothing compared to in the flesh because noise wise they roared like no other plane.As an interceptor i dont think anything even now could come close to their abilities,but like the chap said you could empty the tank in 15 minutes so it had its limitations.I still think it was a damn ugly plane though even in shiny shi More..

    Posted Aug-25-2012 By 
    Zeb (634.00)  

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    • @Zeb Sometimes ugly is beautiful.

      It still holds a few records today I think, but that stat about breaking the sound barrier in vertical flight must have been a wheeze for the pilot.

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      CargeLock (2000.92)  

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  • Favoured, watching laterrr

    Posted Aug-25-2012 By 
    Nazel_Hut (2847.50)  

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  • The Lightning was a brutal plane and believe it or not, I have flown in one and will never forget the experience.

    Posted Aug-25-2012 By 
    Asterix (235.20)  

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  • Great post!
    The Electric Lightning was / is one of those planes that manages to look brutal, beautiful and menacing all at the same time ... in flight or on the ground.

    So different to the sleek and graceful meteor at the 13min mark

    I remember seeing a Lightning at an airshow when I was a kid in about 1968 ... my dad made me an Airfix kit of one and hung it on fishing line from my bedroom ceiling.

    Posted Aug-25-2012 By 
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  • RAF is world class airforces

    Posted Aug-25-2012 By 
    BeefSister (46.10)  

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  • this is all great BUT
    what does britain rule now ?
    history is exactly what it says and only the present and future really matter .i cant think of anything really.you could maybe argue london is the financial capital

    Posted Aug-25-2012 By 
    markymark69 (552.54)

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  • i was surprised how big this plane really is watching it in the raf museum

    Posted Aug-25-2012 By 
    rexmundik (60.96)  

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  • Press your advantage or buy a hat that looks nice in your hands.

    Posted Aug-26-2012 By 
    uglyfukling (64.80)  

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  • When Britain Ruled The Skies ?

    Posted Aug-25-2012 By 
    piesior (45.22)  

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  • oh this is rich..the brits defending the free world with a 1950 jet..lol

    Posted Aug-25-2012 By 
    riddler11 (124.72)  

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    • @riddler11 Yeah that was because it was in the 1950's and 60's you cunt, jesus christ you can't even figure out the decade, bet your going to vote for Romney, go through the history books and see what impact our little country has had on the rest of the world, mostly for the better, sometimes for the worse, have a look at what our country did, not just after your country came in to recent existence, but long before, now you have a nice day, and when you look skyward, and you see jets flying over More..

      Posted Aug-26-2012 By 
      tugpilotsmiffy (92.24)  

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  • Britain ruled the sky's?

    NORAD rules the sky's , 9-11 proved that!

    Posted Aug-25-2012 By 
    RustRocket (1431.30)  

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