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- As a fitting monument to speed, Jeremy decides to create a shrine in his garden. He thinks a Lightning Supersonic Jet Fighter - the fastest jet ever flown by the RAF - would be the ultimate mark of respect. His wife, on the other hand, has other ideas! Great clip from the series 'Speed', presented by Jeremy Clarkson. Go to / topgear to see a full list of all high quality videos available on the Top Gear TH-cam channel and don't forget to visit www.topgear.com for all the latest news and car reviews.
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"You don't think they'll mistake us for an airbase?"
Glad to see Mrs. Clarkson shares Jeremy's sense of humor.
She reminds me of Hammond lol
Too bad they divorced
@@russelljenkins4111 hes upgraded anyway lol
"Does this show up on Satellites?"
"Yea"
"So we could become a bombing target"
Brilliant
Amazing :D
@@lawrencenicholasabbott3152 A lot of misconceptions, lies and deliberate withholding of information to make the Lightning seem worse than it actually was. Well done!
Hard to believe that World of warplanes make such deliveries
To be fair,, that actually turned out to be true,, that house did get blown up.
"You knew what I was like when you married me, you knew I was gonna do this."
LOL!
LOL ur likes were 69............till I showed up 😂
@@swiperthesniper7355 and you still only got your embarrassing self like
@@boerny6757 I didnt like it tho.............
I don't think he's entirely wrong though. Of COURSE he'd do this
"It's here. Now, for the tricky bit. Hello, dear!"
And on that bombshell,....divorce...
But did she take the Lightning?
Literally a bombshell
insert ali-a intro here
back to the..... devorce papers....
oof
I don't think she was acting, this may have been a true candid camera moment! "And YOU complain about the moles!" Love it!
love the airbase part, that was either scripted or the best and quickest yet funniest reply I've ever heard.
The british are very witty with humor. Also clarkson's grimace when she brings up the moles.
Putting a jet fighter in your garden is a totally reasonable thing to do, no idea what she's on about
abrewer1996 simple, she dont like history
Lets go call a british butler my lad
@abrewer1996 - That's what I told the council, they weren't having it though....
I would have gotten a Harrier, so that I could take off and land also. Why own it if you can't go and attack things with it? LOL :)
Yes, idk why my wife was so angry when i puted old bomb in garden. I mean it only slighty damaged house
Loves the man so much she even asks her hairdresser for a 'Clarkson'.
Looks like you've asked your hairdresser for a "dog"
+Rob Fraser LOL Stop you're killing me.
+joshua gador 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Kevin Hopper cool
Rob Fraser I
Love this man's taste in decoration and his house. This video just reminded me of why I consider him as a life idol.
XM172 first flew on 10th October 1960 and was delivered to 56 Squadron at RAF Wattisham in December. When 56 formed a Lightning display team named 'The Firebirds', XM172 was one of the team aircraft. In February 1965 the aircraft left Wattisham for RAF Coltishall and joined 226 OCU (65/145 Squadrons) until October 1973 when she was delivered to RAF Leconfield for disposal.
Her last flight was in June 1974, to Coltishall in preparation for static display on the gate, wearing 145 Squadron marks initially but later changed to 226 OCU's own markings. In 1989 she was put up for disposal as the dreaded 'one gate guard' policy was put into force. Thankfully Wensley Haydon Baillie bought her, and asked that she remain on the gate at Coltishall. When he became bankrupt in 1998, XM172 was once again put up for disposal and in 1999 Barry Parkhouse bought her and had her removed from the gate and transported to his facility at Booker.
On removal from Coltishall she was damaged in several places, faded, and had the tail and outer wings cut off. XM172 spent a brief period in Jeremy Clarkson's garden for his TV show 'Speed', but didn't stay there no matter what you might have been led to believe! She also showed up in the static park at the 2000 SBAC display at Farnborough, but soon returned to Booker. A plan to display her on a roundabout in Farnborough came to nothing, and she was placed in imminent danger of being scrapped because British Airways (owners of Booker) wanted the aircraft removed from the site.
Anyway, thankfully Neil Airey stepped in and bought her, moving her to a new home at Spark Bridge in Cumbria. This was made a needlessly urgent and hurried task by the airfield owners wanting her off site by the end of April 2006 or she would be scrapped! Thankfully the task was completed in time and she now sits resplendent in Neil's back garden - viewable by appointment. She's in good hands, that's for sure.
Copied from Thunder-and-Lightnings.co.uk
Will they be restored to working order?
@@caledonianrailway1233 the lightnings were retired in 1988 but i believe in the USA there is a group of people trying to return one to airworthiness
I thought she was hammond for a minute.
+Company007 says something about Jeremy's tastes
+Songs for the Heart Made my Day xD
Small Moustache Man I did to
He is not gay
@Small Moustache Man - I died. xD
And that username is brilliant.
do they stock SR-71's EDIT:after 4 years i see we all have a common interest in cold war era military aviation
Brandon Carroll i'd love to have that on my lawn, it's a shame i live in an apartment.
+Tesseract nor would you be able to afford one lol
*****
XD sadly, yes
+Brandon Carroll Super expensive, if any exist. The materials its made from are high value, not to mention they didn't make that many of them. And im not entirely sure they would let someone privately own one.
+Brandon Carroll do they stock P51's?
I think she actually took it pretty well. lol
I agree
+HekateMGO she knew who she married.
+HekateMGO She did divorce him, so maybe not that well after all...
+MaskinJunior he had an affair
+MaskinJunior -- Did Jeremy get to KEEP THE JET???!!! 《grin》
"If it weren't for one of these you'd be speaking Russian"
Which 1?
That plane never fired a shot in anger the whole time it was in the British inventory. 😅
GonxVel no. That’s the F-4
@@goofyleo3869 I'm not sure you understand the concept of a cold war......
@@tobywenman4769 Yeah, I have no idea.🙄 Wait! The Berlin Wall came down while I was in boot camp...... Odd, no? 🤔
You can get a supersonic capable MiG 21 from under $500,000. Better than a sports car.
+bbqroast Unfortunately, they would be unfit for flight. An aircraft Can't sit around for 20 years without servicing and still meet FAA regulations. Checks would need to be done yearly, and the maintenance costs on an old plane like that could easily run into £2000000 per year. Not to mention renting a hangar at your local airfield may cost £2000 per month, or more. Then there's the fuel. For a couple of hour's flight you've probably spent another £10000ish on avgas, increased maintenance costs, and spent more money (£2000 PER DAY!) renting a hangar at your destination. I would rather have the new Audi R8 V10 and a castle in the south of France lol.
+Adam Pardoe As far as FAA regulations go, these would be classed "Experimental - Exhibition" and the usual regulations don't apply. Your neck to risk. What airfield do you know that charges 2000 pounds a month?? 200 more likely. Jets don't run on Avgas, they run JetA or plain old kerosene. Sure, with full afterburner a Lighting will burn a gallon a second, but you don't buy a jet fighter of you can't stand the fuel cost. Where do you get the figure for 2,000,000 a year for maintenance?? You're not a pilot or aircraft owner, are you? If an Audi can give you 1/1,00000 the pleasure an aeroplane can, go for it.
+bbqroast
Hell, you can buy a russian submarine for that sort of money!
It's mind blowing.
+bbqroast Life hack: take the wings off and call it a car. No more stringent safety checks!
+M070RG0A7 Shouldn't be that hard to rig up some turn signals and tail lights. imagine getting in to a drag race between stop lights
Hahaha. Jeremy under the wing.
'Come and stand in the dry, dear. Its kind of like a summerhouse.'
In tears, Ill miss Jezza.
He's not dead.
@@mirzaahmed6589 6 years? Really? All that time and you say that 😂😂😂
@@h4r4 not much more he can say
@@Danie1_lStill not dead!
ahhhh the moment where you try to justify to your wife the expense of a man toy
One of more difficult thing for us lot to do hahaha
+lokken23 it's fine, I like a challenge.
If you're the one paying for it, you should never have to explain anything.
Man explaining why I needed a newer dirtbike was a challenge. So I bought her a bike after I got mine to shut her up. It all worked out
YOU WIN
"If it weren't for one of these you'd be speaking Russian"
I say the same to my friends about us Aussies speaking Japanese if it weren't for Boomerangs and Wirraways
John Moore yeah, Americans and Brits who have issues with Frenchman, we just say when they're being snobby, spekinze deutch? No. You're welcome
Haha that's brilliant
John Moore , amen to that. It's just a shame we're selling this country off to the highest bidder now.
Ryan O'Connell I swear to god if China manages to buy that farm in the NT, I'm leaving
John Moore cheque book takeover, I still reckon the numbers have been crunched and they've worked out its cheaper to do it that way.
This man is a living legend. What a life to have had.
"Pile of junk" ... We've got a communist over here
i have an american flag in my house, once my cat tried to scratch it up. all im going to say is my house is now commie free. (lol jk)
***** i said i was just kidding lol i wouldn't do that to my cat, even if she really was a communist xD
HAHAHA
It is xD
ScorpontGamerZ Official I'm a communist but that's a fine plane!
Isn't World of Warplanes a game now?
+Jackomac43 Yeah but it's a piss poor game...
+Jackomac43 yep, go try war thunder if you want a better game.
@102195741297192250438 The tanks are great... Not sure about the planes... [Edit] Yeah actually the planes are pretty good now that I've unlocked the higher ranked ones.
+Jackomac43 in war thunder? both are pretty good.
+Jackomac43 Would recommend World of Warships. Love the game.
"Pile of junk" She needs to be sent to a re-education centre in Novosibirsk.
"Re education "
You spelled Gulag wrong
PDZ1122 😂😂😂😂😂
World's largest leaf blower :D
Commander3n1 and weed remover with twin afterburners
...and household anti-aircraft, burglar defense system. lol
+Commander3n1 and gazebo... Don't forget that
+Commander3n1 And possibly a the worlds biggest snow blower.
and lawn blower. i dont think there will be any grass left 😂
Well done Jeremy. Bravo to you.
I found a Klingon D7 Battle Cruiser in perfect condition in a remote salvage yard, and I could get it for practically nothing.
A minor problem would be relocating power poles in the back yard, and cutting down the tree line seventy five feet behind the house. All of that is a matter of municipal paperwork.
Since it has a salvage title, the disruptor cannons were removed, but due to a loophole, the forward photon torpedo launch system remains in place and can easily be made functional.
What killed the deal is the unavailability of dilithium crystals and a small amount of anti-matter to get the warp engines started to pilot it to my house under impulse power.
A surplus jet fighter in the back yard is out of the question, albeit much easier to aquire.
With all the nooks, holes, and recesses, the militarized red wasps at my house would turn it into a giant nest.
Is that supposed to be funny or something? Cheap drugs
@@mikeholland1031 wow Mike, you’re a cheerful soul aren’t you
My grandad (Frank Kershaw) was on the original design team for the now called English Electric Lightning F-6 and was made to climb through the entire body in the air duct to get at rivets... That was before the nose radar was even made a feature! Always loved the Lightnings, a true testament to British engineering! Up there with the Harriers if you ask me...
"Hello. Is this World of Warplanes ?"
"No. This is War Thunder"
Pay for the Harrier Blyat
Just waiting on the World of Tanks comments...
authentic war zone a fighter jet and 2 trenches !
+JurassicGamer 3
Now he just needs some sand bags and barb wire and he'd be sorted
Jeremy :"hello is this world of warplanes ?"
me : "Warthunder FTW"
You are a real hero
SAME
You sir, deserve a medal! #WT
Go WT
How much for a Lightning?
7.000.000 GE
Repair is 48.000 SL
This might be the best skit, Clarkson has ever made. I love this guy. That is exactly, what I would have done in his position. And I would have been looking for a used Ariane rocket to have as a garden feature, too. Imagine that!
XM172 Was the gate sentry at RAF Coltishall. My Dad was tasked with working out how to mount it.
Why don't women like jet fighters on the lawn?
One of the great mysteries of life...
they truely are a different species!
I must be a lucky one. May spaus understands me. Today i got a book Royal Air Force " A definitive guide to the world,s oldest independent air force! What a nice surprise.
It's staged.
Yeah staged for added drama. Personally I'd be fine with it.
'Going to make my wife cry now, thats for sure!' Crying ahaha
Pile of junk?! PILE OF JUNK?! That's history women! One of the fastest planes ever!
A Mighty Otter still is the fastest climbing jet fighter of all time!
HeKnives Are you sure it's the quickest of all time?
It's still the fastest climbing jet for some of those in anglophile fantasyland.
Yes pile of junk.
Not even close. Saab J-35 Draken, J-37 Viggen, Mig-25 Foxbat, SR-71, and most modern jets could beat it. It was good for its time, but way outdated.
you see.. this is kind of gold video material.... you can't get from the new presenters.... only jeremy james and richard know how to do this job
1:16 that smile, that's the face of a man who has won in life
I remember a Lightning standing around on the yard on our local airport. It was awesome.
“Would they mistake us for an air base?” I love how she thinks.
That's the fastest thing he's ever had in his drive, and with Jeremy Clarkson, that's really saying something
The Yellow Pages advert at the beginning is spectacular 😂
Jeremy Clarkson asking for a fighter jet has to be one of the best things on Top Gear.
It’s not off top gear….
Cow at 2:08 is like "Ugh, humans"
Ugh..my wife is like the female version of jeremy clarkson.. i send her out to get petrol for the lawn mower and she comes home with a new jeep and two ATVs and goes "what they all hold gasoline?" but did you get gas for the lawn mower? "no.."
Does she like hammers
@warmfreeze that doesn't sound like a problem :)
Sounds like she wears the trousers...
Yeah, this guy sounds like a proper beta. His wife (presumably) takes his money and just does what she wants with it.
How did she manage to get a jeep and two ATVs with just petrol money? For a lawn mower
I want an F 15 as my garden ornament.
try and pass it off as a lawn dart to the missus...
Get an F104 instead, then.
get a F-35 better or PAK-FA
Adrian Danu You first.
Naw, P-51D Mustang!
me everytime to my wife, when I pulled some weird stunts: 3:50 - 3:54
Follow up next: Jeremy buys a nuclear submarine and puts it in his garden.
Vertically.
Just to tell off the BBC, like a giant steel middle finger.
@@fredlougee2807 or to roam Iceland or so
She's got the same hairstyle as him! Amazing. Also, this couldn't be a more british argument between spouses.
Send your money to the Anglo American lightning association they plan on getting one of these airborne again.
Michael beechy head
I think there is or was one still flying in South Africa. Privately owned
@@Gixer750pilot was. I don't think they are allowed to fly since one of them had a fatal accident.
i love that sentence at the end, "oh come on dear you knew what i was like when you married me" XD
I know this is his first wife but this whole interaction reminded me of him and Lisa (just 20 years earlier)
seeing how as its his salary that got them that house she shouldnt really complain
He doesn't care about the house, he had planning to demolish it to build a new property....... Except he didn't demolish it normally, he blew the whole lot up much to the annoyance of his neighbours. Google it to have a look, it's hilarious and typical Clarkson....
I am sure he not want to be part of top gear anymore,he got more than enough money for his whole life.
I would be annoyed if he blew up his house without inviting me to watch.
Magnificent.One of the best at a climb.Over wing tanks and or missiles.
Didn't even get a Meteor, god damn it Jezza!
real life Peter griffin,
"quick! to the Clarkson mobile"
It's a giant hammer shaped jet with power written on the sides
“And you complain about the moles..” 😂
"you knew what I was like when you married me." best comeback for the wife ever.
I love how the first thing that concerned her was the lawn and not the massive fighter jet in her garden!
World of warplanes XD
later, it gets removed by a council for not believing Jeremy that it was used for "leaf blowing" 💀
TH-cam: ah yes we will recommend 9 years later
Who got recommended this 9 years later but doesn’t regret watching it
0:12 so jeremy predicted the game World of Warplanes!
' you knew what i was like when you married me' that's my goto line in these situations too!
I would love a lightning in my garden! :-)
I would love a F4 Phantom in my backyard
JZA80 98' Supra Amen t' that!
i would love a runway to fly the lightning off on in my garden.
Maybe a squadron of spitfires
I want a Eurofighter Typhoon in my garden
This is why ever single person.................. in the world loves Clarkson !!
I love my American jets, but the Electric Lightning is definitely a beauty.
Absolute chad move
I do believe he is relieved of this lady now ? Wonder why
jamie morrison he allegedly got it on with his ex wife.
"Yes I would like to file a divorce"
"Could you please provide a reason for it?"
*"Of course: my husband put an F14 Super Tomcat in the backyard"*
Why not the one Jeremy put on his front lawn.
Mrs. has a great sense of humor.
These things were EXTREMELY fast...and could outclimb almost anything else..One even managed to intercept an American U2 spyplane at 88,000 feet (where the US pilots thought they were safe from interception).. it also frequently came out on top in various 'war games' against other allied war planes of the day. Concorde was offered as a 'target' for NATO fighters including F14s..F15s...F16s..Mirages and F104s...but only the Lightning could catch (and overtake ) it.
+celt67 the u2 was at 60,000 feet and nothing could reach it and they had a huge shock when they realized a lightning had hit 88,000 feet and DIVED down onto it!
@@Scoobydcs That was flying a parabolic trajectory. It took advantage of the Lightning's ability to supercruise, that is go faster than sound without using the afterburner.
The procedure was to refuel in flight and then climb to about 20,000 ft.-ish, put the plane into a shallow dive and go as fast as it could without afterburner, and then pull almost vertical on command from ground control. At this point the pilot would light the afterburner, and from there it would be about like a free throw in basketball. Well, except the rim is moving, but basically the same thing.
@@fredlougee2807 yup. Incredible machine and flying too
@@Scoobydcs I actually read about the maneuver with a different plane, a Mirage, in a novel by South African adventure writer Wilbur Smith.
In "Eagle in the Sky", published in the mid-1970s, Smith took some liberties with aircraft performance, to have a scene wherein the main protagonist, a South African of English and Jewish heritage who had emigrated to Israel after five years as a fighter pilot in the S.A.A.F. and acquired a commission in the I.A.F., shoots down a high altitude spy plane, ostensibly an Ilyushin knock-of of the U-2. In the years since reading the book I have never learned of the Russians actually having any such plane, and do know for a fact that during that time period they used the MiG-25 for high-speed tactical reconnaissance.
A U-2 at 88,000 feet? The ceiling for those things is 70,000 feet, I think you got some numbers mixed up
If I had that huge space in my frontyard, I would buy a fighter jet too !
Well, considering how things could've gone down, I think it turned out rather well.
Ask May to come and he will give you shit tons of informations about each specific parts😂😂
Clarkson showing off that all men at heart are still children
At Rota Naval Base in Spain, there's a roundabout with a Harrier jump jet on a pedastal in the middle.
Wife: That's a bloody mess.. "
Jeremy: "What?"
I do that too.. It's the only right answer
spare her and get divorced then
Where he went wrong is he did not get a his and hers ex cold war fighter interceptor jet.. She is just mad because she does not have one. Women are so simple to figure out..
Spanky Urbutt It's almost like you know me ;)
Bob Lutz had His and Hers jet fighters at one time.
That's the house that was exploded. There were no plane though.
James May bombed the house with the jet fighter confirmed.
I don’t think there is anything more calming than a British man flipping carefully through a phone book.
Well....maybe a few other things, but I find this one quite calming ^^
This will never grow old. :)
now if only i could get a B-17 or something in my lawn...
Austin Wright lol theyre so rare. i saw one flying not to long ago though.
daybreaK
i know how rare they are, fifi the b-29 is here in texas under mantenance haha...i thought that was pretty cool
get that thing running and cruise around the neighborhood! The ultimate chick magnet. As long as they're wearing hearing protection LOL
And you don't do a hand brake swerve to park in front of her dads new ferrari...
World of Warplanes? you shoud go whit War Thunder insted
First thing i thought when I watched this lol That might be why the plane does not work
It's cheaper in WoWP I've would guess
Andris Sturis how about no
Wow she’s a happy person
I'd KILL to have a neighbor like him! Or a guy with tanks, that would be pretty cool.
How did they get Ron Swanson to drive the truck?
Another one of my awesome business ideas....Remember when I had the idea to turn a jet in to an apartment block so people could live inside it?
Divorced in 2014
Chris Coombes what?
iliovecaRS Clarkson and wife
Chris Coombes what that sucks
that's completely made up....
Frances Cain (m. 1993; div. 2014) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Clarkson
I wonder how many conversations that began with.... 'Hello darling!' resulted in marriage counseling? I survived one such conversation which began in this very line when I purchased a ME109 G propeller hub for an undisclosed sum and tried to explain it could, at the very least, be used as a large plant pot!? (with the 20mm cannon hole as a water drainage outlet I added!) Didn't go down well - at all. But marriage survived it. Although she did make me plant some Geraniums in it just to piss me off. Looked ridiculous although it did work rather well as a plant pot.
lol
Lol such a bloke thing to do well done Sir
You mean Germaniums? 🤣
Over here a garden is where you grow peas and corn. A yard (or lawn if you're a Yankee...lol) is where the grass grows. :)
I would sit in it every day like a big kid making jet noises.
If I could have an old war plane on my lawn I would just don't have a big enough Lawn or enough money. lol
"and on that bombshell, its time to end my marriage. good night!"
Honestly a jet fighter in a garden is such a flex
0:10 Me on gta getting jets to my hangar as easy as that
This could take the whole space in my room and I wouldn't even be upset!
I’d love to have a lightning in my front yard or backyard.
I'd prefer a F4 Phantom 🤣
wife is upset about having a $1000000+ fighter jet in her garden#richpeopleproblems
+mettsenator Yeah... no
Not worth anything like that much money. It would cost as much as a fairly nice new car.
Aaaaghh ! women ... always complaining
probably staged. I mean, who decides to ship a fighter jet to their house without first consulting their wife/husband?
Howard Sterling lol, clearly Jeremy does that xD It´s Clarkson for pete sakes!
Victore92 Clarkson's TV persona does not equal his real life persona.
Howard Sterling Reeeeeeeeeally!?!? : O
Howard Sterling I would
The pile of old junk. It’s a work of art! My fave jet ever. An absolute monster and some of its feats are amazing! I think our American cousins got a little jealous of it. Just waiting for the Blackbird comments 🤷🏻♂️ 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
"So we could become a bombing target."
Well she basically has the same sense of humour he has xD