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Started by Captain Canada, May 15, 2003, 08:50:00 AM

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nev

#30
January 18, 2005, 12:31:23 AM
I know, thats why I said it can fly very fast in a straight line for a few minutes!  :P

If we were talking about the Lightning I would have said it can fly very fast, climb like a rocket and generally cavort around the sky....for a few minutes  :D  
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Ollie

#31
January 18, 2005, 06:00:32 AM
Mind you, the 104 was a bloody rockter.  The Lightning was a pregnant rocket.   :P

Seriously, the Yanks, with a rocket-augmented 104 went to 104 000' (Chuck Yeager) and the Canucks, with a suitably lightened 104, polished and all went o about 98 000' or something like that using only the jet engine to give them a push.

What do you have to say about that, eh?

Typical job for a Canuck 104 pilot : 200' ceilling, 1/2SM viz, Mach .96 on the deck!!

:wub:  :wub:  :wub:

Muttley

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January 19, 2005, 06:08:22 AM
Apparantly, way back when, the US used to route U-2 flights over the UK (on their way in/out of the Red Zone) without askig permission, reckoning that we couldn't do anything about it.  They were dissuaded after one was intercepted by a *diving* Lightning - or so I was told (by a Canberra PR9 navigator . . . )   B)  
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