GIANT 1/5 SCALE RC AIRWORLD EE LIGHTNING F2A - LUKE & PAUL AT LONG MARSTON - 2017

LUKE METCALF MAY BE YOUNG BUT HE CERTAINLY IS A VERY SKILLFULL PILOT, HE HAS OWNED THIS MK F2A FOR NEARLY FOUR YEARS AND WHEN NOT FLYING HER AT WEEKENDS HE FLIES HER AT PUBLIC SHOWS ALL OVER THE COUNTRYSIDE ALONG WITH DAD PAUL,

WATCH HOW WELL HE FLEW AND LANDED HER IN THIS 20 + MPH GUSTING WIND AT LONG MARSTON JMA MEET,

LUKES FATHER PAUL STATES SHE IS A MODEL YOU HAVE TO FLY THROUGHOUT THE FLIGHT - IN OTHER WORDS YOU CANNOT RELAX FROM FLYING HER, SHE IS A HANDS ON MODEL NEEDING CONSTANT INPUTS AND CORRECTIONS - CONSTANTLY WORKING AT IT !
HAVING SAID THAT SHE IS NOT UNPLEASANT TO FLY BUT LOOKING AT HER IN THE AIR MAKES IT WORTH THE WORK LOAD !

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INFO ON THE MODEL -

luke flies her on spectrum radio and uses a powerbox and i3e gyro,

she was built by trond hammerstad from Norway
she is an Airworld Modelbau kit - 1:5 scale
Wingspan - 176 cm
Length - 284 cm
Weight - 23 kg (without fuel)
9 ltrs fuel capacity (2x4,5 ltrs tanks)
One BF300 turbine with 320N thrust
Nav lights, landinglights and afterburner lights.
The model has the same wing airfoil as the fullsize!
Drumbrakes on mainwheels etc.
The colour scheme is from an F2A, stationed in Germany (RAF Gutersloh) in late 1960s.
Its not easy to estimate the building hours, but 3-400 hours I guess. (it was a winter build 2011/2012, the maiden flight was may 2012)
All scale details are hand made after studying lots of pictures and books from the full size eel,
There is a nice building article of this model in Jet International Magazine (dec2012/jan 2013)

INFO ON THE REAL AIRCRAFT -

Role - Interceptor
National origin - United Kingdom
Manufacturer - English Electric British Aircraft Corporation
First flight - 4 August 1954 (P.1A)
Introduction - December 1959
Retired - 1988 (RAF)
Primary users - Royal Air Force, Kuwait Air Force, Royal Saudi Air Force
Number built - 337 (including prototypes)

The English Electric Lightning is a supersonic fighter aircraft of the Cold War era. It was designed, developed, and manufactured by English Electric, which was subsequently absorbed by the newly formed British Aircraft Corporation. It was then marketed as the BAC Lightning.

The Lightning was the only all-British Mach 2 fighter aircraft. The Lightning was used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF). Although it was the RAF's primary interceptor for more than two decades it was never required to attack another aircraft.
The Lightning is powered by two Rolls-Royce Avon turbojet engines in a unique staggered stacked installation in the fuselage.

The Lightning was developed to intercept increasingly capable bomber aircraft (Tupolev Tu-16, Tupolev Tu-22, Tupolev Tu-95), and thus has exceptional rate of climb, ceiling, and speed; pilots have described flying it as "being saddled to a skyrocket".This performance 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 in the late 1980s, many of the remaining aircraft became museum exhibits and, until 2010, 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.

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FILMED AT LONG MARSTON AIRFIELD STRATFORD UPON AVON WARWICKSHIRE CV37 8LL ON 3-6-2017