English Electric Canberra – Restoration Progress Report.

[Warbirds News]

This one came in last night- thanks to our UK friend Geoff

Air Base Canberra Progress

 

[Alex .]

Cool! Always liked the Canberra, was there for some of the last flights they did from RAF Marham in 2006 as a young cadet

 

[vikingBerserker]

That is very cool!

 

[fastmongrel]

Nice work. I used to see PR9s flying overhead regularly from RAF Warton lovely noise none of this modern quiet turbofan purring, a proper rattle the windows stuff

 

[Thorlifter]

Very nice to see!

 

[nuuumannn]

Will be cool to see this aircraft in the air; I remember seeing WK163 when they first restored it back to flying condition. It wore an all-over silver scheme back then as depicted when it broke the time to climb record using its Double Scorpion rocket motor. Here's a pic of the motor the Canberra used:

It was powered by HTP and Kero and was one of a number of boost engines the Brits built that were based on research done into Walther rocket motors post-war.

 

[Wildcat]

Very nice, I like that colour scheme too.