Touchdown At First Light by steelrazer
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Description
Like "being saddled to a skyrocket"! Sounds like a pretty descriptive statement from the pilots of the English Electric (Later BAC) Lightning. The jackrabbit quick aircraft was the first supersonic aircraft capable of supercruise, the Lightning was renowned as an interceptor and featured a very unusual "stacked" twin engine configuration. When it was retired in the late 1980's the "rocket" had served as the RAF's primary interceptor for almost two decades.
I guess I'd have to dedicate this one to Rob and Neil.
Electric Lightning: Very nice model free on sketchup warehouse by PM3D with some kitbashing and retexture work by myself.
Panavia Tornado: mandun free at the warehouse.
C4d6+XL, Vue6Infinite, PS Cs3
Comments (15)
tigertim
Very cool, great POV of this magnificent Aircraft!.. yes Rob will get his jollies from this for sure. Nice work on the Lightning model too, it looks great as do other of his models.. but..... I still can't get to import in one piece into poser.. bit of a bummer really....
iridebikes6663
Looks great!
sike
Beautiful scene. I love it !
shayhurs
Very well done! 5+
bebopdlx
This is a real nice piece of work.
fly028
Superb reflection and amazing image!!
Greywolf44
Very cool shot. Love the drag chute deployment, a nice touch.
Maxidyne
The guys (especially Rob) are going to pass out when they see this. Stunning work Bill, the finish on the aircraft is amazing!
UVDan
Excellent scene! I always thought this plane looked odd, but you cannot argue with success.
neiwil
:-) Beaming from ear to ear mate....thanks Bill, I never got to see one fly but Rob introduced me to some 'grounded' ones. A truly stunning aircraft, even today, and a superb render, love what you've achieved here, a definite fave, thanks again....
jibicoco
nice ! :)
aeilkema
Cool :)
AliceFromLake
Very nice metal texture and environment.
debbielove
O.K. Cheers! I won't go on about this one mate LOL I have had the massive pleasure of seeing (and hearing)(very important) them at airshows and on fast runs.. Never have I witnessed anything so quick of the mark! The Pilots of this carried maps to read, (no radar), they had to be the very best of all... It was even in the 80's, the goal of a Fighter Pilot to be posted to a Lightning Squadron.. God bless the Lightning, my all time fave aircraft! Rob
Briney
Great landing scene. Mmmm... not exactly a VTOL is it... that chute must have come in handy when landing a rocket!