NASA WB-57 recovery

A NASA WB-57 returns to Nellis after 4:30 hours of flight over the NTS. Call Sign NASA926.

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• Nellis
• AFB
• KLSV
• NASA
• WB-57
• Canberra
• Land
• Recovery
• Arrive
• B-57

[thewhistler]

wow how can something be so ugly and so sexy at the same time?

[porousorifice]

U2 banged an Airbus?

[PDG6x]

penguin

[Shendrick24]

What a ugly plane??

Strange plane too

[mytmousemalibu]

The TF33 engines on the WB aren't that bad for its role. As you go up in altitude, the bypass becomes less efficient. Way up high a pure turbojet is the best option. Turbofans do best with denser air and up there a fan beating at thin air is wasted power that the engines need. I love the old TF33's

[isukaman]

An old, but still a handsome airplane.

[bigPickle1980]

lol its a canberra/U2 hybrid

[Oldbmwr100rs]

@Breatherable Yup, as a mechanic,I always liked the old line"Simplicity is the key to reliability". That's the reason the U2 is still used,although it's basically a heavily modified F-104, it serves it's purpose very well. The SR-71 was far too expensive, and in the end the U2 stayed useful. I guess the B-57 fell into the same place, too useful to be tossed since the role it held wasn't so important a replacement wasn't necessary.

[Breatherable]

@Oldbmwr100rs My thoughts exactly, basic Canberra design (or B - 57) with large engines and huge wing area usually equals very high altitude work.

[Oldbmwr100rs]

Kind of funny,I was just watching a video of a Canberra and got to thinking if modern bypass jet engines could be fit to one,how good of a plane it could still be with such a large amount of wing area. It's nice to see that i wasn't the only one thinking of that. It's a very nice design,only hampered by old inefficient engines, i wonder how well the new ones worked with it.

[Billy1951D]

USAF flew Canberras for 25 years.

[assman12354]

does nasa still fly this?