RAF Canberra History

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Uploaded by on Aug 14, 2007

A look at the long standing bomber/reconn aircraft used by the RAF and many other air forces worldwide in the second half of the 20th century and beyond.

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  • My father was the first pilot to land a Martin B-57 flamed out. The airplane was a superb fully acrobatic bomber. It had unforgiving single engine characteristics. One of the most famous films of a B-57 is a pilot attempting to land on one engine, getting the plane on the ground, and then saying that he is going around again. Total loss of control and crash. Dad said that single engine in the Canberra was like putting an engine on a barn door.

  • Great bit of kit, often disregarded as a stratgic bomber due to it's relatively low payload compared to Vulcans, Victors and American Stratofortress' what people fail to remember is this aircraft would routinely climb to altitudes upto 70,000ft, far higher than any of the others could dream of reaching, this aircraft acheived many firsts that have left it's mark on aviation history and in doing so created a true legend...

    55 Years of magnificance from beginning to end!

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