Template:Did you know nominations/Holden's Lightning flight

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 19:03, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

Holden's Lightning flight

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The actual Lightning fighter jet

• ... that an engineer inadvertently took off in an English Electric Lightning after engaging the afterburner by mistake?
  • ALT1:... that Walter "Taffy" Holden managed to land an English Electric Lightning after taking off by mistake?
  • ALT2:... that Walter "Taffy" Holden, qualified to fly light aircraft, managed to land an English Electric Lightning after taking off by mistake?
  • ALT3:... That the second production English Electric Lightning XM135, on display at Imperial War Museum Duxford, inadvertently took off during ground tests with an engineer at the controls?

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Satya Rhodes-Conway
• Comment: Please comment on best hook - I like the first best, but am very open to outside input on "hookiness". On some of the alts - File:English Electric Lightning F.1 ‘XM135 - B’ (38439946610).jpg may be a better image (caption: XM135 was flown inadvertently by an engineer, on display in Duxford).

Created by Icewhiz (talk). Self-nominated at 14:11, 10 April 2019 (UTC).

• GTG. Also like the original hook best, but I'd work in "...English Electric Lightning "fighter jet"...", for those who don't know. Engaging subject, well-written, long & recent enuf, hook checks out, QPQ done. The other pic probably better at the microdot size - you might caption it "The actual Lightning fighter". Earwig finds nothing (and frankly goes slightly bonkers). Johnbod (talk) 00:54, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

Good points - added fighter jet + changed image above. So:

ALT4 ... that an engineer inadvertently took off in an English Electric Lightning fighter jet after engaging the afterburner by mistake?

Icewhiz (talk) 03:11, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

• GTG on ALT4 too - now I think the best hook. Johnbod (talk) 13:54, 12 April 2019 (UTC)