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Points: 69 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 09 2013 at 22:23
Originally posted by Vibrationbaby Vibrationbaby wrote:

Many Spit pilots I have spoken with say that this is not really Spit because it was not powered by a RR Merlin. It had a more powerful Griffon. But it still kicked ass. One story I heard was that it was flown against a BAC Lighting and freaking won. The lightning couldn't out turn it! The Spit litterally flew circles around the lighting. In order to stay airborne and effective  the Lightning had to maintain a higher speed. The reason for this test was because the Lightings were being flown against piston engined fighters in the far east.

Found this on thge web. You will notice that this was a Griffon powered Spit.



The English Electric Lightning was an Interceptor designed to combat Soviet Bombers during the Cold War.  You don't dogfight at Mach 2.
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