EE Lightening - tribute to Dave Stock

It always could bite. Loss off Dave Stock in South Africa.

You aircraft lot may find this interesting.

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Why is your comment , when Dave Stock was killed in the tragic accident involving ZU-BEX?

The final report isn't out regarding this accident yet, and it is likely to conclude that it was an entirely avoidable incident that would have been avoided if correct EEL operating procedures had been followed

Calm down fella I don't think the title last flight was very clear it involved a fatality

Because it was referring to the Lightning at bloody Castle motors, not the video

A sad day as a very experienced pilot was lost.

After this accident they stopped operating them. We can't speculate, but it does
Look like a maintenance/operating issue.

I should have made the title clear and will edit it.

RIP :-(

I remember seeing a lightening flying at Farnborough air show when I was a kid.
The noise it made on take off was awesome !

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I saw the Lightning fly at a number of air displays back in the 60's and 70's, and it remains my favourite cold war fighter. I believe it still holds some altitude/speed records today. The party piece at air shows was to take off, apply reheat, stand it on its tail and climb vertically to around 60,000 feet in very little time

Climb rate was 20,000 feet per minute and it could do brakes off to 36,000 feet in less than three minutes

I'd planned for years to take a flight in one of Thunder City's EEL's when I retired in a couple of years, but sadly now it won't happen. The remaining aircraft (three Lightnings, three Buccaneers and four Hunters) are up for sale by private tender, closing 27 April

I can't see anyone could take on the considerable operating costs of the Lightnings or Buccaneers and they would be unlikely to get CAA permission to fly in the UK, so will likely end up as museum pieces

Yes , the tail stand climb after takeoff was awesome :-0

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The Lightnings used to come from Germany to RAF Valley in the mid 1970's to fire missiles on the ranges off the coast of West Wales. One Sunday morning I was walking across the parade ground car park with a couple of other guys and, most unusual for the RAF on a Sunday, we heard an aircraft starting up and taxing. We waited to see what was going on, and saw a Lightning take off. It flew out to sea, and a few minutes later came back at very low level and high speed. The pilot stood it on it's tail directly above the Officer's Mess and went in to a full reheat climb. The noise in the Mess must have been awesome, I think that it's possible some damage could have been caused but it must have woken everyone for miles and certainly did not help any hangovers. Great days when Political Correctness and Elfin Safety did not dominate every aspect of life.

Amazing aircraft.

There was talk of getting one airborne again a couple of years ago, but I don't know what happened to the proposal.

I've always thought we should keep at least two of our landmark aircraft in flying order........ The Vulcan, Harrier, Lightening, Jaguar, Buccaneer etc.

We seem to do OK for the WWII stuff which is great, but the cold war stuff always seems to have taken a back foot.

Of course, that's just me being nostalgic, and the costs involved would be huge, but we don;t seem to celebrate our aviation heritage as much as we should.

The Lightning Preservation Group have XS904 and XR728 at Brungtingthorpe, both of which are taxiable.

It would be possible to get either of these aircraft airborne (at a cost), but the CAA will NOT approve civilian operation of Lightnings in the UK

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