"user314" (user314)
07/14/2020 at 11:00 • Filed to: flightline, Planelopnik, planelopnik history, RAF, united kingdom, ENGLISH ELECTRIC LIGHTNING | 2 | 9 |
English Electric Lightning F.2 interceptors of No. 92 Sqn
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Located on the North Sea coast, approximately half-way between London and Edinburgh, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! was established in 1936, with No. 166 Squadron flying !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! for Bomber Command. By the beginning of WWII, the squadron had been re-equipped with !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! bombers, with ten aircraft penetrating German airspace for the first time in September of ‘39. By October of that year No. 166 had moved to RAF Abingdon, and Leconfield was transferred to Fighter Command, and was used as a temporary station for many squadrons, including Polish !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! and !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! Sqns.
After the war, Leconfield was the home of the RAF’s Central Gunnery School (later the Fighter Weapons School), as well at the No. 275 SAR squadron. By 1962 No. 19 Sqn and No. 92 Sqn arrived with EE Lightning F.2s, though both transferred to !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! by 1968. The field was then home to !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . responsible for servicing the Lightning.
By 1977 RAF Leconfield had been reallocated to the British Army, and became home to the Army School of Mechanical Transport (later the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! ).
For Sweden
> user314
07/14/2020 at 11:03 | 4 |
big push
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> user314
07/14/2020 at 11:07 | 2 |
Fighter Command and Bomber Command are just really good-
sounding names for organizations, I tell you hwat.
user314
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
07/14/2020 at 11:11 | 1 |
All they need is Missile Command.
user314
> For Sweden
07/14/2020 at 11:12 | 4 |
ttyymmnn
> user314
07/14/2020 at 11:23 | 0 |
And Star Command!
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> ttyymmnn
07/14/2020 at 11:34 | 2 |
Buzz Lightyear to Star Command, come in, Star Command.
Roadkilled
> user314
07/14/2020 at 12:40 | 0 |
I have a question for the aviation experts. This engine configuration seems to be extremely uncommon. I would assume that part of the issue is that the loss of one engine would pitch the aircraft up or down. I seem to remember that one of the concerns on the F-14 was that the loss of one engine created a significant yaw force due to the distance from the centerline.
Is it harder to trim out the pitch for than the yaw from the loss of an engine? Is there another reason why this engine configuration isn’t used? Could it be due to the challenge of accessing the upper engine for servicing?
PyroHoltz f@h Oppo 261120
> For Sweden
07/14/2020 at 13:15 | 1 |
“we’ve got no fuel for this”
user314
> Roadkilled
07/14/2020 at 13:33 | 0 |
Probably more ease of maintenance than anything else. Trimming a Lightning to counter a dead engine would actually be easier than doing so on a more traditionally arranged plane, since both engines are more on the centerline of the plane.
The reputation of the Lightning as kind of a lemon may also have put other designers off the layout. Lightnings were fast and had a high ceiling , but maneuverability wasn’t a big requirement during design (like other fighter/interceptors of the same vintage), and they were both under-armed and had low fuel capacity and high fuel usage.
Pretty much any mission they were on required constant tanker support:
even after a belly tank and over- wing tanks were added.