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 | type=Four-seat recreational [[Engineering:Monoplane|monoplane]]
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 | manufacturer=White Lighting Aircraft Corporation<br />[[Company:Reflex Fiberglass Works|Reflex Fiberglass Works]]
 | designer=Nick Jones
 | first flight=1986
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The '''White Lightning WLAC-1''' is an American four-seat single-engined [[Engineering:Monoplane|monoplane]] designed for [[Engineering:Homebuilt aircraft|amateur construction]] by Nick Jones and sold as kits by the White Lighting Aircraft Corporation of South Carolina.<ref name="taylor" />

In the 1990s the aircraft design was sold in kit form by [[Company:Reflex Fiberglass Works|Reflex Fiberglass Works]] of Walterboro, South Carolina.<ref name="Aerocrafter">Purdy, Don: ''AeroCrafter - Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook, Fifth Edition'', page 242. BAI Communications, 15 July 1998. {{ISBN|0-9636409-4-1}}</ref>

==Development==
The WLAC-1 is a low-wing monoplane powered by a 210&nbsp;hp (157&nbsp;kW) Continental IO-360 piston engine.<ref name="taylor" /> Of composite construction, it has a retractable nose-wheel landing gear.<ref name="taylor" />  The four-seats had an unusual arrangement in that the rear two seats face backwards.<ref name="flight" /> Kits to build the aircraft were sold for amateur construction.<ref name="taylor" />  The project is currently managed by Will and Bill Fields.  Will has raced the plane in the Reno National Championship races with two wins since 2002.

The prototype first flew on 8 March 1986 as the '''Jones White Lightning'''.<ref name="taylor" />

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==References==

===Notes===
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<ref name="taylor">Taylor 1996, p. 510</ref>
<ref name="flight">{{cite journal | title= White Lightning aims to be the fastest| journal= Flight International | url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1986/1986%20-%203089.html |page= 27| date= 1986-11-22}}</ref>
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===Bibliography===
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*{{cite book|last= Taylor|first= Michael J. H.|title= Brassey's World Aircraft & Systems Directory|year= 1996|publisher= Brassey's|location= London, England|isbn= 1-85753-198-1|url-access= registration|url= https://archive.org/details/brasseysworldair0000unse}}
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[[Category:Homebuilt aircraft]]
[[Category:Low-wing aircraft]]

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