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English Electric Lightning
Survivor WG768
RAF Museum Cosford, Shropshire

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SB.5 WG768 at Cosford, 17th May 2007; author
The Shorts SB.5 at Cosford is not a Lightning of any kind, but I think it deserves a place in the survivors list. Used by the RAE to investigate different wing sweep angles and tailplane positions, it ended up only confirming that English Electric were right all along. This head-on shot shows the essentially similar final configuration and hides the many differences when compared with the P.1 - the fin shape and single engine, for instance.

Information on this page current as of 17/05/2007

Find other photos of WG768 on the following sites:

Air-Britain - Airliners.net - Airplane-Pictures.net - flickr.com - IrishAirPics.com - JetPhotos.net - PlanePictures.net

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