Aviation Photo #4078081 English Electric Lightning F6 - UK - Air Force

Lightning with two air-to-air missile Red Top. The English Electric Lightning is a supersonic fighter aircraft of the Cold War era. It was designed, developed, and manufactured by English Electric, which was subsequently absorbed by the newly formed British Aircraft Corporation (BAC). The Lightning was the only all-British Mach 2 fighter aircraft. Although it was the RAF's primary interceptor for more than two decades it was never required to attack another aircraft.