John hargreaves canberra bomber

“I decided to play a game and hard turned into the F-104s.

Too late I remembered that the 100 series Avons fitted to the Canberra didn’t like that sort of treatment,” `Boz’ Robinson, former RAF Canberra pilot.

The English Electric Canberra was the RAF’s first ever jet bomber and proved to be Britain’s most durable and long-lasting frontline type, with a handful of reconnaissance PR 9s still soldiering on 57 years after the prototype’s first flight.

John Hargreaves pm 19 Jan MERC said: Yes John the Bombers certainly have troubles.

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The history of this aircraft, one of the most successful British combat aircraft of the 20th century, began in Indeed, the RAF wanted to.

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During its career the type equipped more than 40 squadrons and 546 examples were built. The Canberra was designed for speed and, aside from its bomb load, carried no other weapons. Its low-aspect wing gave outstanding fuel economy at a maximum cruising altitude that far exceeded the ceiling of contemporary NATO fighters.

This meant that, for a number of years prior to the advent of the air-to-air missile, the C