Lightning (disambiguation)

Lightning is an atmospheric discharge of electricity.

Contents 1 Transportation 2 Computing 3 Media 4 Sports 5 Other uses 6 See also

Lightning may also refer to:

Transportation

Aircraft

• English Electric Lightning, a supersonic British fighter aircraft of the Cold War era
• P-38 Lightning, an American fighter aircraft of World War II
• XP-58 Chain Lightning, an American prototype fighter aircraft of World War II
• F-35 Lightning II, a US/UK fighter aircraft, the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF)

Other

• Lightning (clipper), a clipper ship built by Donald McKay in 1854
• Lightning (dinghy), a type of 19-foot sailing dinghy first built in 1938 and raced worldwide
• Lightning Car Company, a British company that builds electric sports cars
  • Lightning GT, the flagship vehicle of the aforementioned car company
• Ford Lightning, a sports/performance version of the Ford F-150 pickup truck
• Lightning, a Great Western Railway Iron Duke Class steam locomotive from 1847 to 1878

Computing

• Lightning (software), an extension that adds calendar and scheduling functionality to the Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client
• GNU lightning, a library for Just-in-time compilation

Media

• Lightning (novel), a 1988 novel by Dean Koontz
• Lightning (comics), a character in the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents comics series
• Lightning Comics, at least two American comics companies
• "Lightning", a song by Counting Crows, one of the "Flying Demos"
• Lightning, a character in the video game Final Fantasy XIII

Sports

• Tampa Bay Lightning, a National Hockey League ice-hockey franchise
• Tel Aviv Lightning, an Israel Baseball League franchise
• Lightning, the mascot of Middle Tennessee State University

Other uses

• Lightning (roller coaster), a roller coaster at Entertainment City in Kuwait
• Lightning (wrestler), a professional wrestler, half of the tag team Thunder and Lightning
• Kim Betts (born 1971), an English bodybuilder, known as Lightning on the British television show Gladiators
• Thunderbolt, the familiar symbol for lightning
• Lightning Peak, a volcano in British Columbia, Canada

See also

• All pages beginning with Lightning