Lightning from the cockpit
Caygill, Peter2004
Book
This is a collection of 16 personal accounts of what it was like to fly the Lightning, the only single-seat supersonic interceptor designed and manufactured in the UK. The stories convey the immense brute power of the machine, its reputation for speed and phenomenal rate of climb and its many pitfalls.
Main title:
Lightning from the cockpit / Peter Caygill.
Author:
Imprint:
Barnsley : Pen & Sword Aviation, 2004.
Collation:
x, 182 p., [20] p. of plates : ill., plans, port. ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
9781844150823 (hbk)1844150828 (hbk)
Dewey class:
623.7'464
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
177516