Electric P1B "Lightning" Jagdflugzeug The pilot and gunner sit

The pilot and gunner sit one behind the other in a specially protected and armored cabin

Many of its variants can be seen today as replicas or in museums

the Blue Angels switched to the larger and more powerful F/A-18E/F Super Hornet

the enormous noise level was a noticeable negative

depending on the variant 70 to 112

Electric P1B "Lightning" Jagdflugzeug The pilot and gunner sitThe Electric P1B was developed by English Electric in the 1950s . Designed as an interceptor , the Lightning was known for its extremely slim fuselage shape , the strongly swept wings and, above all, the stacked engines and achieved excellent performance at the time. With afterburner, the Lightning reached speeds of over Mach 2 . The Lightning was mainly used in Great Britain and was only exported to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait . It is also noteworthy