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Lightnings to Spitfires – A lifetime as a fighter pilot

Editor’s note: Clive Rowley has contributed several features in recent issues of Flight Journal. Here he treats us to some excerpts from his new autobiographical book, “Lightnings to Spitfires.” The Lightning The English Electric (later BAC) Lightning was a remarkable and innovative British design. It was the first British aircraft able to sustain supersonic speeds in level flight and the first to achieve twice the speed of sound, Mach 2.0. Its Rolls Royce Avon reheated...

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