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Special Event Station GB0EEL: 2-3 August - 70 years since the first English Electric Lightning prototype flight

RAF Waddington ARC ran a Special Event Station GB0EEL on the weekend of 2-3 August 2024 at former RAF Binbrook. This was the 70th anniversary of the first test flight on 4th August 1954, from RAF Boscombe Down, of the English Electric P1A (WG760), the type that was later to become the English Electric Lightning, piloted by English Electric’s chief test pilot Wing Commander Roland Beaumont.

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