#English Electric Canberra

[monkeyssalad-blog]

Martin B-57 Canberra by SDASM Archives Via Flickr: PictionID:42004571 - Catalog:16_002492 - Title:B-57A - Filename:16_002492.TIF - ---Photo from the Ray Wagner Collection - - - - Ray Wagner was Archivist at the San Diego Air and Space Museum for several years and is an author of several books on aviation --- ---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum

[usafphantom2]

Regardless of what platform was used to shoot this particular photo, wasn't the Canberra a beautiful aircraft?

@Tempest_books via X

[nocternalrandomness]

English Electric Canberra PR.9 Bomber in original RAF markings at RIAT 2014, Fairford UK

[crownedstoat]

Canberra

[dangerousthingobservation]

Canberra T17A

Royal Air Force English Electric Canberra T17A @ Newquay Cornwall Airport

[emo-56]

Your bio says to ask about military planes, so which one is your favorite and why?

i will write a list

Avro vulcan

Hawker siddley harrier/ BAE harrier II/BAE Sea harrier

Dehavilland vampire

Panavia Tornado F.3/ADV (i think the longer nose makes it look a bit better than the strike variant)

mcdonnell douglas F-15

mitsubishi F-2

supermarine spitfire/seafire

mitsubishi Type 0

eurofighter typhoon

North American P-51

mcdonnell douglas F-4

the flanker family

SAAB JAS 39

Hawker hurricane

ilyushin IL-2

Hawker typhoon

dassault mirage 2000

Lockheed Martin F-35

Lockheed Martin F-22

gloster javelin

English electric lighting

the other V-bombers

KAI KF-21

Avro Lancaster

Boeing B-29/Tupolev TU-4

Tupolev TU-160

Tupolev TU-95

Vought F4-U

Grumman F-14

SAAB J35

SAAB J37

Mikoyan-gurevich MiG 21

Sukhoi SU-57

English electric canberra

Messerschmitt BF109

North American rockwell OV-10

sepecat jaguar

SAAB 105

Dehavilland venom (yes i know its basically a vampire)

Hawker hunter

Fairey swordfish

IAF Kfir

mitsubishi T-2

mitsubishi F-1

Sukhoi SU-25

i do have some more in mind but the max limit on numbered lists is 45, the list isnt in any order. and yes, i have mild autism (im saying that as if it isnt painfully obvious from the 45 aircraft i just listed as my "favourite")

my reasoning, simply put, is their cool

[madkot]

Canberra

[manwe]

Early 1980s. RAAF English Electric Canberra in formation with a General Dynamics F-111C and a Dassault Mirage IIIO.

[ultrajaphunter]

English Electric Canberra

It is of paramount importance to ensure that the doors are open at both ends

[monkeyssalad-blog]

1951 illustration of an English Electric Canberra bomber by totallymystified

[niftyandinterestingstuff]

English Electric Canberra medium bomber. There are videos on YouTube. Maybe one of them explains the use of the word "Electric".

[usafphantom2]

English Electric Canberra

@ron_eisele via X

[nocternalrandomness]

RAF English Electric Canberra B Mk.2,

The English Electric Canberra B.2 was the first production variant of a twin-engine, turbojet powered light bomber.

This particular Canberra, WK163, spent its entire career as a research test bed. Photographed here on  28 August 1957 it reached an altitude of 70,308 feet over southern England.  This set a new Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) World Record for altitude. The Canberra was being used to test Napier’s Double Scorpion NSc D1-2 rocket engine, which was used to drive the aircraft far beyond its normal service ceiling of 48,000 feet.

[airmanisr]

DSC_0031 - English Electric Canberra B. Mk. 2 (Mod), WV787, Newark Air Museum, 29th October 2022. by Martin Laycock

[gremlins-hotel]

proosh my lovely you've done half my work for me by including the aircraft's serial in the photo. that there is an english electric canberra (known to usians as the b-57), an early jet bomber!

english electric canberra - a84-238:

canberra b.mk.20 - she would've been made in the government aircraft factory in melbourne, an aussie-licensed canberra b

first flight was october 10, 1956

served with raaf no. 2 sqn as part of usaf's 35th tac wing (vietnam), arriving in 1969 before returning to australia in 1971

in 1973 it would become one of six canberras from this squadron to be refitted for aerial cartographic survey, having several cameras and other survey tools attached in various places

and now it looks like she is sadly exposed to the elements and vandalization up on those poles.

so was driving home yesterday and nearly crashed in the urgency to pull over the moment I spotted this big bitch

@a-flying-fortress I hope it’s okay to tag you but you’re much more of a plane person than I am, is it possible to ID this beauty? She’s probably RAAF but beyond that I’m clueless

[coldwarairforce]

A Canberra being ‘bombed up’ at RAF Tengah while on detachment from the Near East Air Force Strike Wing at Akrotiri, between May and August 1965.