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The English Electric Lightning - Britain nearly killed its wildest fighter before it flew

The Lightning was born out of a postwar Britain that kept cutting, delaying, and second-guessing its own future in supersonic ...
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When And Where Lightning Strikes Occur, Part 1

The locations circled in red are seal damage to the windshield caused by lightning strikes on a United Air Lines Boeing 787. Credit: NTSB The weather that existed for departure from London’s Heathrow ...