Test fleet: Suzuki Katana
The English Electric Lightning jet fighter was so notoriously ‘short-legged’ that it was said that pilots of this amazing aircraft would never, ever, run out of fuel in any other plane, car or motorcycle they were in control of, as it was so drummed into them about how often they should check the Mach 2 fighter’s fuel state at any time during a mission.
What on earth am I doing talking about the lack of range of one of Britain’s finest jet fighter interceptors of the 1960s to the 1980s? Well, fuel has been on my mind a lot recently as… BING… sorry: I’m thinking of what
