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Lightning T5

by stcaamekid

Images of the 2-seat Tub version of the English Electric Lightning.

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Lightning T.5 XS452 "BT" sits abandoned at Cranfield, Beds, August 1990. Now part of Mike Beachyhead's collection of airworthy cold war jets in Cape Town, South Africa.
English Electric Lightning T.5s XS452 BT and XS458 DY, Cranfield, 1991.
BAC Lightning T.5 XS452 "BT" from 11 Squadron on final approach to land at Binbrook.
BAC Lightning T.5 XS456 "DX" in the static display at the Last, Last Lightning show, August 22nd, 1987.
BAC Lightning T.5 XS456 "DX" from the Lightning Training Flight in the static display at the Last Last Lightning show at RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire, 22nd August 1987.
BAC Lightning T.5 XS419 DV at Binbrook Airshow, 22nd August 1987
Lightning T.5 XV328, Binbrook, April 1988. Two months later Lightning ops ceased, and this sight became history.
Lightning T.5 XV328 BZ, taxies in at Binbrook, April 1988
Lightning T.5 XV328, Binbrook, April 1988.
Lightning tails at Binbrook, September 1987
Lightning T.5 XV328 passes Crash Gate 3, Binbrook, April 1988
Lightning T.5 XS452 'BT' at Cranfield, August 1990
English Electric Lightning T.5 XS459 "DW" on final approach to land at Binbrook, May 1986.
BAC Lightning T.5 XS459 "DW" from the LTF at Binbrook, May 1986
English Electric Lightning T.5 XS452 "BT" on approach to overshoot runway 21 at Binbrook during the second part of an instrument rating check that started earlier in XS459, May 1986.
BAC Lightning T.5 XS456 "DX" approaches Binbrook's famous Crash Gate 3, on its way to runway 21, April 1987.
BAC Lightning T.5 XV328 "DU" at Crash Gate 3, April 1987.
BAC Lightning T.5 XS459 "DW" passes Crash Gate 3, May 1986.
Final approach to land for BAC Lightning T.5 XV328 "DU" at Binbrook, April 1987.
BAC Lightning T.5 XV328 "DU" at Binbrook, Easter 1987
LTF BAC Lightning T.5 XS419 "DV" approaches runway 14 prior to departure for return to Binbrook, May 1986.
Lightning T.5 XS419 "DV" taxies out to runway 14 for its return to Binbrook following an LTF detachment for Intercept Weapons Instructor training involving Firestreak live firings, with F3 XP707 in the background. May 1986.
English Electric Lightning T.5 XS459 "DW" from the Lightning Training Flight, taxies out for a runway 21 departure from Binbrook for the first part of an Instrument Rating check, May 1986
Lightning T.5 XS416 "AZ" from 5 Squadron on final approach to runway 14, Valley, during their MPC operating out of STCAAME, September 1987.