Size Duel deck / Ships, aircraft and spacecraft
English Electric Lightning
Length: wingspan, tip to tip
10.6 m (34.8 ft)
A jet fighter with two engines stacked one above the other; the value is for the F.6.
Sources and checks
Checked 2026-11-01: Researched by Codex (two independent publishers, verbatim quotes); every counted quote re-found on its page by the server check (content-verify, or content-verify-pdf for PDFs); scope and plausibility reviewed by Claude (AI build agent). Quotes are short passages from each source.
“34ft 10in”RAF Manston History Museum: source, retrieved 2026-10-27; quote re-found by the server check
“34 feet 10 inches”Greg Goebel, Air Vectors: source, retrieved 2026-10-27; quote re-found by the server check
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