Antique & Vintage Photographs

This is a 35mm transparency / slide.

It shows an English Electric Lightning F.1 parked on a concrete apron at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, seen from the rear quarter. The two stacked jet exhausts face the camera, and the swept tail fin carries the number '135' above a red, white and blue fin flash. The aircraft is in a pale finish, with its main undercarriage leg and a ground line visible beneath the wing. The sky behind is bright blue with white cumulus clouds. The mount is handwritten in blue ink 'Lightning F.1', followed by a serial that begins with 'X' and ends '135'. Its middle characters are covered by a number written over it in green. Below the picture the mount is handwritten 'Duxford, Cambs 29-6-75'.