The English Electric/BAC Lightning (ISBN 978-0850455625) is an aviation book by British military historian and author Bruce Barrymore Halpenny about the English Electric Lightning. It was published by Osprey Publishing as part of their Air Combat series. It was a best seller in Grimsby, the home town of the Lightning. Included in the book are several anecdotes, one being a pilot's super sonic flight causing "anger and dismay". Thirty minutes after landing at RAF Binbrook, the hapless airman took a telephone call... as Flt Lt Normant Want recalls in the book,