For instance, the P-38 Lightning with its thick high-lift wing had a particular problem in high-speed dives that led to a nose-down condition.

It had been preceded by an English-language edition of 1938 called Germany and a Lightning War.

They issued the Chain Lightning album two and a half years after it had been recorded in Nashville, and two years after its release in Europe.

Luthor even attempted to send a team of heroes after them under the leadership of Captain Atom-the team consisting of Major Force, Black Lightning, Power Girl, Starfire, Katana and Green Lantern, but this plan failed when Katana and Power Girl quickly sided with Superman and Batman and Major Force was apparently killed, Power Girl noting that Luthor had assumed in his arrogance that the heroes would obey him simply because he was President.

Despite the fact that the Lightning finished first in the conference and the Islanders qualified for the playoffs as the 8th and final seed, a few journalists had picked the Islanders to win based on their strong regular season performance against Tampa Bay.

Though Demers had presided over the resurgence of the Detroit Red Wings in the 1980s and helmed a Stanley Cup run in Montreal in 1993, he was unable to change the team's fortunes, and the Lightning ended up losing 55 games.

It later emerged that Kokusai Green's owner, Takashi Okubo, had never met with Esposito or with NHL officials in person prior to being awarded the Lightning.

Brad Richards, who had 26 points, won the Conn Smythe Trophy as the most valuable player of the Stanley Cup playoffs ; the Lightning had won all 31 contests in which he had scored a goal since the opening of the season.

During the offseason, the Lightning traded Fredrik Modin and Fredrik Norrena, to the Columbus Blue Jackets for goaltender Marc Denis, to replace John Grahame, who had served as the Lightning's goaltender throughout most of the 2005 – 06 season, as he left the team, and signed with the Carolina Hurricanes.

Veteran Andre Roy, who had won the Stanley Cup with the Lightning in 2004, was claimed off waivers from the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Throughout March, the Lightning had been switching places with the Atlanta Thrashers for first place in the Southeast Division.

At the start of the All-Star Break on January 25, the Lightning had a 20 – 25 – 5 record, and with 45 points, were in last place in both the Southeast Division, and the Eastern Conference.

On February 13, 2008, it was announced that Palace Sports & Entertainment had agreed to sell the Lightning to OK Hockey LLC, a group headed by Oren Koules, a producer of the Saw horror movies.

But their God took instant vengeance on all who had a hand in that Monstrous Act, by Lightning from Heaven, & has ever since visited their Nation with a continued Train of Calamities, nor will he ever leave off punishing, and wasting their people, till he shall have blotted every living Soul of them out of the World.

He had one appearance in the Tiny Toons episode segment " The Acme Acres Summer Olympics ", as the coach, and serving to be as the mentor of Lightning Rodriguez.

Liam had his own band, Betchadupa, originally based in Auckland, then London before releasing a solo album, I'll Be Lightning in 2008.

He had two Turkish-style warships built in Sweden, the Yıldırım (" The Lightning ") and the Yaramaz or Jarramas (" The Rogue ").

Lightning Boy had been renamed Lightning Lad, and their costumes were very close to those they wore throughout the Silver Age of Comic Books.

Shooter wrote the story in which Ferro Lad died – the first " real " death of a Legionnaire ( although Lightning Lad had been believed dead for a while before ) – and introduced many other enduring concepts, including the Fatal Five, Shadow Lass, the Dark Circle, Mordru, and the " Adult Legion ", a conjecture regarding what the Legionnaires would be like when they grew up.

This concert was featured in the 2004 music documentary Lightning in a Bottle, which was directed by Antoine Fuqua, and had Martin Scorsese as executive producer.

Kohs, a director from Philadelphia, had met a popular Milwaukee, Wisconsin, duo, Lightning & Thunder, composed of Mike Sardina, who did a Neil Diamond impersonation, and his wife Claire.

Lightning strikes 40 – 50 times a second worldwide, for a total of nearly 1. 4 billion flashes per year.

With the win, Pistons owner William Davidson became the first ( and to this date, the only ) owner to win both NBA and NHL championships in the same year, having won the Stanley Cup as owner of the Tampa Bay Lightning.

In their fourth season, 1995 – 96, with Bradley still leading the team in scoring, second-year forward Alexander Selivanov scoring a total of 31 goals, and Roman Hamrlik ( the team's first-ever draft choice except those drafted in the expansion draft two days earlier ( Wendel Young being the first ever Lightning ) in 1992 ) having an All-Star year on defense, the Lightning finally qualified for the playoffs, nosing out the defending Stanley Cup champion New Jersey Devils for the eighth spot in the Eastern Conference by a single game.

Only three years after losing 50 games, the Lightning became the southernmost team ever to win the Stanley Cup, in only their 12th year of existence.

The album included the title song, as well as " Lightning in a Bottle ", " If These Walls Could Speak " ( which was recorded by Amy Grant that year ) and " Our Movie ".

The Fulton Opera House is home to its own actor's company, which stages seven theatrical productions per year including plays ( Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap, 2007 ) and musicals ( Oliver !, 2006 ), some of which are world premier originals ( critically acclaimed Lightning Rod, 2005 ).

With the exception of 8 games with the Tampa Bay Lightning, he played his entire 14 year career with the Capitals.

The steam locomotive's number is 95 in reference to Lightning McQueen's racing number and the year the first Toy Story was released ( again ).

In the 2003 – 04 NHL season, Andreychuk continued as a key contributor for the Lightning offence, reaching 20 goals for the third consecutive year with the team.

Qualifying for the playoffs for a second consecutive year, Andreychuk helped the Lightning defeat the Calgary Flames in seven games to win the Stanley Cup for the first time in franchise history.

After the year off, Andreychuk's contributions decreased and on January 10, 2006 he was waived by the Lightning, bringing an end to his career.

One year later, Roberts made a comeback with the Carolina Hurricanes, where he played three seasons before finishing his career with stints playing for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Florida Panthers, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Tampa Bay Lightning.

That team changed their name to the Lancaster Lightning, then the franchise moved to Baltimore for a year before relocating in Rockford.

In May 2012, less than year after its birth, Lightning Medicine Cloud was found dead, thought to have been butchered and skinned by an unknown individual ; his mother was found dead the next day.

* April 18 – Precisely one year after the Doolittle Raid, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navys Combined Fleet, is killed when the Mitsubishi G4M ( Allied reporting name " Betty ") in which he is riding as a passenger, T1-323, is ambushed and shot down by U. S. Army Air Forces P-38 Lightning fighters over Bougainville in Operation Vengeance.

Each year, the Lightning Round on radio was 90 seconds long.

That same year the Lightning debuted in the NHL playoffs.

It is open on Sundays from 10. 00 am to 4. 00 pm, and the aircraft, including the Lightning Preservation Group's pair of English Electric Lightning F. 6s, XR728 and XS904, are brought out to demonstrate fast taxi and takeoff runs on the two open days held each year, usually the end of May bank Holiday Sunday and the end of August Bank Holiday Sunday.

Richards was drafted in the 3rd round, 64th overall, by the Tampa Bay Lightning in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft, despite recording 82 assists and 115 points in his draft year.

On July 2, 2010, Kubina returned to the Tampa Bay Lightning, signing a two-year contract valued at $ 7. 7 million ( roughly $ 3. 85 million per year ).

The 1999 X1 Lightning was awarded motorcycle of the year in Japan.

Later in the same year, November 8, he scored a natural hat trick in four minutes and ten seconds in the second period against the Tampa Bay Lightning, setting a Penguins franchise record.