Showing posts with label The Jet Age. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Jet Age. Show all posts

Thursday, 25 April 2013

Take Your Own Thunder With You

'Want to fly a Lightning? Want to occupy the single seat in the single seater,
all leather, night and day, high flying, supersonic, supernormal Lightning?'




Jet age, jazz poetry, advertising hip. The RAF was clearly pretty happening in 1960, and the English Electric Lightning was the living end, Daddio.

Wednesday, 24 April 2013

Many Details Of Its Performance Are Secret

'The Javelin is Fighter Command's first aircraft specifically designed
to seek out and destroy enemy bombers by night or day in good weather or bad...'



In other words, relax Britain, the RAF have got Armageddon covered. Well, some of the local bits.