01635 BAE Lightning F.3 Trumpeter  [TP01635]

The Lightning developed beyond its initial interceptor component into a tremendously capable hit fighter and reconnaissance platform. The very first production Lightning, the F.1, travelled in October 1959, and deliveries was in fact just available in summer months of 1960. It had good radar and heat-seeking Firestreak missiles. A follow-on variation, the F.1A, had air-refueling capability and a UHF radio. The F.2 variation starred in 1961, and had better range, rate and roof, a liquid-oxygen breathing system the pilot, a steerable nosewheel, fully-variable afterburners, and improved electronic devices. The F.3, featuring two 16,360-pound thrust Avon items, a much more impressive square-tip fin, Red-Top missiles, as the convenience of keeping two big over-wing gasoline pods, joined up with solution in 1964. The F.3A, afterwards re-designated the F.6, was at reality the consequence of a BAC suggestion to very nearly increase the Lightning's fuel ability and also to fit it with a redesigned wing. This modification allowed the airplane to transport more, be much more efficient, and get quicker.

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