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60,000 Feet in 3 Minutes: Britain’s Lightning That Outran the Cold War
The English Electric Lightning was a vertical rocket disguised as a fighter. Reaching 60,000 feet in under three minutes and ...
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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