User:BilCat/Essays/We Band of Lighting Pilots

Methinks thou dost tred in dangerous grounds. Hast thou not heard? Dost thou not knowest of the exalted status of the great Her Majesty's Fighter the Left Honourable Sir English Electric Lightning, P.1, F.1, F.2, F.3, T.4, T.5, F.6? Stronger than a C-5, faster than a speeding F-15, able to leap tall Moons in a single bound?

Or hast thou forgotten the immortal words of ACM Henry V?

We few, we happy few, we band of Lighting pilots;

For he today that launches with me

Shall be my wingman; be he ne'er so vile,

This day shall gentle his condition:

And gentlepilots in Earth now abed

Shall think themselves accursed they were not such,

And hold their manhoods cheap whilst any speaks

That flew with us upon Saint Lightning!

Originally written as a sarcastic retort in February 2008 on Talk:English Electric Lightning.