File:Dumfries Aircraft Museum.jpg
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English: The English Electric Lightning is a fighter aircraft that served as an interceptor during the 1960s, the 1970s and into the late 1980s. It remains the only UK-designed-and-built fighter capable of Mach 2. The Lightning was designed, developed, and manufactured by English Electric, which was later absorbed by the newly-formed British Aircraft Corporation. Later the type was marketed as the BAC Lightning. It was operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF), the Kuwait Air Force (KAF) and the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF).
A unique feature of the Lightning's design is the vertical, staggered configuration of its two Rolls-Royce Avon turbojet engines within the fuselage. The Lightning was initially designed and developed as an interceptor to defend the V bomber airfields from attack by anticipated future nuclear-armed supersonic Soviet bombers such as what emerged as the Tupolev Tu-22, but it was subsequently also required to intercept other bomber aircraft such as the Tupolev Tu-16 and the Tupolev Tu-95. The Lightning has exceptional rate of climb, ceiling, and speed; pilots have described flying it as "being saddled to a skyrocket". This performance and the initially limited fuel supply made the Lightning a "fuel-critical" aircraft, meaning that its missions are dictated to a high degree by its limited range. Later developments provided greater range and speed along with aerial reconnaissance and ground-attack capability. Following retirement by the RAF in the late 1980s, many of the remaining aircraft became museum exhibits. Until 2009, three Lightnings were kept flying at "Thunder City" in Cape Town, South Africa. In September 2008, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers conferred on the Lightning its "Engineering Heritage Award" at a ceremony at BAE Systems' site at Warton Aerodrome. |
Date | Taken on 26 March 2017 14:05:49 |
Source | https://www.flickr.com/photos/jetjohn/32819387567/ |
Author | James Johnstone |
Camera location | 55° 05′ 26.28″ N, 3° 34′ 08.8″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 55.090632; -3.569112 |
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Camera manufacturer | NIKON CORPORATION |
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Camera model | NIKON D810 |
Author | James Johnstone |
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Exposure time | 1/250 sec (0.004) |
F-number | f/16 |
ISO speed rating | 450 |
Date and time of data generation | 14:05, 26 March 2017 |
Lens focal length | 38 mm |
Latitude | 55° 5′ 26.27″ N |
Longitude | 3° 34′ 8.8″ W |
Altitude | 13 meters above sea level |
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Orientation | Normal |
Horizontal resolution | 300 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 300 dpi |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 11.1 (Windows) |
File change date and time | 09:19, 3 May 2019 |
Exposure Program | Manual |
Exif version | 2.3 |
Date and time of digitizing | 14:05, 26 March 2017 |
APEX shutter speed | 7.965784 |
APEX aperture | 8 |
APEX exposure bias | 0 |
Maximum land aperture | 3 APEX (f/2.83) |
Metering mode | Pattern |
Light source | Cloudy weather |
Flash | Flash did not fire, compulsory flash suppression |
DateTimeOriginal subseconds | 27 |
Color space | Uncalibrated |
Focal plane X resolution | 2,048.4022216797 |
Focal plane Y resolution | 2,048.4022216797 |
Focal plane resolution unit | 3 |
Sensing method | One-chip color area sensor |
File source | Digital still camera |
Scene type | A directly photographed image |
Custom image processing | Normal process |
Exposure mode | Manual exposure |
White balance | Manual white balance |
Digital zoom ratio | 1 |
Focal length in 35 mm film | 38 mm |
Scene capture type | Standard |
Scene control | Low gain up |
Contrast | Normal |
Saturation | Normal |
Sharpness | Soft |
Subject distance range | Unknown |
GPS time (atomic clock) | 14:05 |
Satellites used for measurement | 09 |
Geodetic survey data used | WGS84 |
GPS date | 26 March 2017 |
GPS tag version | 0.0.3.2 |
Serial number of camera | 6019684 |
Lens used | 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 |
Date metadata was last modified | 10:35, 3 May 2019 |
Unique ID of original document | 5E99126F91C5425AE6F701B90D8534EB |
Copyright status | Copyrighted |
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IIM version | 4 |