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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Pike, Richard, 1943-     Subjects     Great Britain. Royal Air Force -- Airmen -- Biography.     English Electric Company Limited.     Lightning (Fighter plane) -- Anecdotes.     Air pilots -- England -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Pike, Richard, 1943-       by title:      The Lightning boys :...       by call number:      623.7464 P636L     Search the Web     Pike, Richard, 1943-     Great Britain. Royal Air Force -- Airmen -- Biography.     English Electric Company Limited.     Lightning (Fighter plane) -- Anecdotes.     Air pilots -- England -- Biography.       MARC Display

The Lightning boys : true tales from pilots of the English Electric Lightning / Richard Pike. by Pike, Richard, 1943- Grub Street, 2011. Call #: 623.7464 P636L Subjects Great Britain. Royal Air Force -- Airmen -- Biography.   English Electric Company Limited.   Lightning (Fighter plane) -- Anecdotes.   Air pilots -- England -- Biography. ISBN:  9781908117151 (hc.) Description:  190 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. Notes:  Includes index. Summary:  A British supersonic fighter jet of the Cold War era -- according to a recent study, the Lightning is the fifth most popular military aircraft of all time. Over twenty stories from former Lightning pilots, relating the dramas and the demands of operating this iconic aircraft from the sharp end. Recollections of an aerobatic display pilot, an implausible yet true account of telepathic communication, and an extraordinary episode when a Lightning pilot on an exchange programme with the French Air Force became embroiled in a mid-air collision. An unverified yet probably genuine world record is revealed in one of the chapters. Original photographs accompany the text. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Sackville Public Library Adult Nonfiction 623.7464 P636L Adult books Checked out Jul 11, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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