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Close enough.

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Have always liked the Lightning.
Still the only solely British Mach 2 fighter. 1300 mph, 0 - 50,000 feet in a minute. Bloody loud.

Rather like the Typhoon [emoji16]

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I can remember the Lightning from air displays when I was a kid and yes, it was very loud. Buccaneers weren't quiet either.
Interesting thing I read yesterday at the museum; the Lightning was mainly a cold war plane, built to intercept Russian bombers, hence the fast climb rate, but the only aircraft Lightnings ever shot down was a Harrier! The controls had gone, the pilot ejected but the plane remained in the air and was destroyed in case it crashed into a populated area.

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Lightening blew the windows of the control tower doing a vertical climb on afterburners at my local aerodrome in the 1970s when it had a little air display. Fantastic but blooming loud

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Finally thawed out from my ride home on Wednesday....

https://i.imgur.com/GsHo2iEh.jpg

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Respect

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Bloody hell man!

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Spring floods in Shrewsbury. Poor daffs frozen and then drowned.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...09c8cd6405.jpg

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Considering how often Shrewsbury floods I'm amazed daffs survive at all within half a mile of the Severn.

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Luckily the river level rises quickly and drops back equally quickly so it's probably just a quick shock for the daffs.