Chris goes supersonic thanks to Shell.

 In June 2007, Chris Leigh was helping man the BDFA stand and entrance at the Aero Expo in High Wycombe, when he entered a competition run by Shell Oil, which he was lucky enough to win. He recently went to CApe Town to claim his prize, a flight in a Lightning, and his experience was reported in Shell's in-house magazine:-

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