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The lightning was a reusable manned missile

The English Electric Lightning was built for one purpose: to climb faster and higher than any threat approaching British ...
This file photo taken on Feb. 4, 2023, shows a Japan Airlines Boeing 737-800 plane. (Kyodo) IZUMISANO, Osaka -- On April 3, a Japan Airlines plane going to Haneda Airport in Tokyo got hit by lightning ...
Seventy-one years ago today, on August 4, 1954, the English Electric Lightning P.1A made its maiden flight. Originally developed by English Electric-later absorbed into the British Aircraft ...