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English Electric Lightning

2,977 TheRLAF  one month ago
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Don't get me wrong, I do NOT like the British(joke lol), but can we just, you know,

ALL

agree that, this is like, THE COOLEST looking plane to ever touch the sky~? Anyways,

the E.E.L. was a British interceptor which served from the 60's to the 80's. It had a weird vertical enigne design to reduce drag, and some other things. Since it's notched delta wings housed it's long landing gears, the missiles (Firestreaks [and Red tops on the F-6 variant{which I made a bit too short}]) were stuck onto the main fuselage. Also this thing had an insane(at the time) T.W.R. of .92 (I think), which was only comparable to the F-4(same concept as lightning[fast high altitude interceptor] done worse, talk about a brick with wings, that thing hasn't exercised since it was test-taxiing)...

(Also, I've tried, and miserably failed at making the lightning, like 6 times before, and I'll put those photos up somewhere~?)

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General Characteristics

  • Created On Android
  • Wingspan 35.8ft (10.9m)
  • Length 42.1ft (12.8m)
  • Height 19.1ft (5.8m)
  • Empty Weight 8,900lbs (4,037kg)
  • Loaded Weight 13,332lbs (6,047kg)

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 11.377
  • Wing Loading 32.2lbs/ft2 (157.1kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 414.5ft2 (38.5m2)
  • Drag Points 2754

Parts

  • Number of Parts 85
  • Control Surfaces 3
  • Performance Cost 401