46 FLIGHT, 13 July 1961
LIGHTNING
10
I I
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
24
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
General
Fuselage
1 Kelvin Hughes 91 in pi cot
boom
2 Intake bullet housing Airpass
radar
Top bullet spigot access
Nosewheel bay in lower
bullet-strut
Engine air duct
Bullet alignment adjustment
Supplementary intakes (those
in bullet stalk locked shut in
produtcion aircraft)
Duct flattens below cockpit
Air to lower (No I) engine
Air to upper (No 2) engine
Top gun longeron
Lower longeron
Gun shroud structure
Two gaseous-oxygen bottles
Oxygen charging connection
Nose jacking point
Attachments for cockpit
ladder
Magnesium-forged canopy top
frame
Shoot-bolts
Canopy latches
Inflatable canopy seal
Front pressure bulkhead
Rear pressure bulkhead
Side pressure walls
Access to ammunition tanks,
autopilot computers, fuel-
contents amplifiers, Tacan
T/R. master reference gyro,
emergency battery
Armament bay between
frames 13 and 22
Multi-bolt joint between
front and rear fuselage at
frame 25
Wing/fuselage front main
attachment
Wing/fuselage rear main
attachment
Multi-bolt attachment plate
Stress-bearing hatch under
No 1 engine
Oil filler access
Engine drains
Hatch attachment bolts
Stress-bearing hatch over
No 2 engine
Hatch-lifting lug
Fin spars bolted to frames
Jetpipe trunnion access panels
39 Light-alloy honeycomb sand-
wich structure
40 Dielectrically isolated fin tip
41 Braking-parachute compart-
ment
42 Parachute streaming anchor
and jettison unit
43 Streamer cable spring-clipped
around rear lip
44 Main pack
45 Vane-type auxiliary para-
chute
46 Cables actuating internally
retracting doors
47 Tail bumper
48 Tie-bars across four rear
frames
49 Reheat-jetpipe mounting rails
Wing
Front and rear spars of
hockey-stick form
Wing halves bolted through
forged centre rib
Main wing-box skin machined
from 0.2in light-alloy plate
T-section intermediate-spar
booms pre-attached to skins
Rib/spar structure inside box
bolted in Warren-girder
lattice
Detachable leading-edge sec-
tions
Compass unit in starboard
leading edge
Aerodynamic sawcut slots
Navigation lights
Corrugated - sandwich skin
in wheel bays
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
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At
A2
A3
A4
AS
A6
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C2
C3
C4
C5
C6
C7
C8
C9
CIO
CM
CI2
CI3
CI4
CI5
CI6
CI7
Air conditioning
Ram intake to cabin-air heat
exchanger at duct bifurcation
Cold-air unit and water boiler
on starboard flank
Water header tank
Water extractor
Conditioned air duct to cock-
pit
Cockpit pressure test con-
nection
Flying controls
and cockpit
Aileron p.f.c.u. (powered
flying-control unit)
Rudder p.f.c.u.
Tailplane p.f.c.u.
Ultra amplifiers (tailplane
and autostabilizer system)
Tailplane spigot
Tailplane - drive triangular
frame
Aileron mass-balance
Aileron control push/pull
tubes
Triple-roller guides
Aileron autostabilizer actua-
tor
Rudder feel unit
Rudder autostabilizer actua-
tor
Rudder trim actuator
Control column
Rudder pedals
Engine power control panel
Canopy external locking
controls
CI8 E2B standby magnetic com-
pass
CI9 "Canopy unlocked" warning
lights
C20 High-intensity cockpit light-
ing
C2I Starboard airbrake shown
open
C22 Plain flaps
D De-Icing
Dl Hot-air anti-icing around
intake lip
D2 Rain dispersal duct
D3 Side-panel demisting ducts
D4 Canopy top-panel demisting
ducts
D5 Demisting-air flexible bel-
lows
O6 Canopy-air desiccant packs
D7 Embedded electro-thermal
windscreen elements
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E2
E3
E4
E5
E6
E7
E8
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Fuel system
Integral fuel cells in wing
Collector tank with booster
pumps
Fuel recuperator
Recuperator control valve
Fuel transfer valves
Air line to recuperator
Defuelling valves behind rear
spar
Pressure-fuelling adaptor in
fuselage
"Tanks ful l" green lights
panel
Low-pressure fuel pipe
Ventral tank (jettisonable
in emergency)
Multi-bolt inspection panel
Tank aerodynamic fin
Flap fuel
Detachable Flight Refuelling
probe
Tank pressurizing intake/
vent in sawcutslot
Power systems
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H I
H 2
H 3
H 4
H5
H6
H 7
H 8
H 9
H I O
H I I
H I 2
HI3
H I 4
HI5
Electrical
Varley 28V battery behind
canopy
Battery test socket
Neoprene drain tubes
No 2 battery in spine amid-
ships
External a.c./d.c. receptacles
in wheel well
Main accessory-drive unit,
driven by b!eed-air turbine
Gearbox and oil filler
Rotax 28V d.c. generator
English Electric20kVA alternator
Cooling-air intake to acces-
sory-drive unit
Turbine exhaust from (H6)
Teddington magnetic ampli-
fier on door
External cable duct past No 1
engine
Artificial horizon power sup-
ply control/inverter
Electrical duct
Continued overleaf
This drawing by our artist Arthur
bowbeer depicts the essential fea-
tures of a Lightning F.I A all-
weather fighter. Arrayed along the
bottom of these pages are details of
the Airpass radar and weapon loads
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