"Peter Twydell" wrote in message
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In message , Neil Hoskins
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It's a clever name, because on our side of the Pond we can claim that it's
named after the English Electric Lightning. So everybody's happy... quite
unusual.

Never heard of the P-38? I think Lockheed got there first.

Yes I have. And clearly they did.
It's just... oh, why bother...