Vacuum break
Finless and with her wings 'broken' outboard of the main gear, English Electric (BAC) Lightning F.1A XM173 seen languishing in a garage yard at Lytham near Warton, Lancs several years ago.
Sold on, she was acquired by Sir James Dyson to be mounted in company with another exhibit, a Harrier GR.7 outside his Malmesbury, Wiltshire Vacuum Cleaner factory complex as a tribute to British Engineeering.
The local planning department had other ideas and vetoed the idea so while the dispute is settled, '174' was placed in storage at Kemble's Cotswold Airport.
However plans are now afoot to build a museum inside his factory complex to display this and the iconic Harrier along with other great British inventions.
HDR Tonemapping on a single frame.
DSCN3654
Vacuum break
Finless and with her wings 'broken' outboard of the main gear, English Electric (BAC) Lightning F.1A XM173 seen languishing in a garage yard at Lytham near Warton, Lancs several years ago.
Sold on, she was acquired by Sir James Dyson to be mounted in company with another exhibit, a Harrier GR.7 outside his Malmesbury, Wiltshire Vacuum Cleaner factory complex as a tribute to British Engineeering.
The local planning department had other ideas and vetoed the idea so while the dispute is settled, '174' was placed in storage at Kemble's Cotswold Airport.
However plans are now afoot to build a museum inside his factory complex to display this and the iconic Harrier along with other great British inventions.
HDR Tonemapping on a single frame.
DSCN3654