®i©ardo wrote:
Neil Hoskins wrote:
"Peter Twydell" wrote in message
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In message , Neil Hoskins
writes
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...

Well, according to Lockheed's contemporary advertisement it was the
pilots who called it Lightning, although their claim that British pilots
were that impressed by the aircraft is not borne out by history.


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True...the Brits were not impressed. But IIRC, we
also gave them Lightnings with no
turbosuperchargers and the props both spun in the
same direction. Our own forces referred to them
as castrated.

Lynn in StLou