Martin B-57 Canberra

[Lucky13]

Got to love the Canberra!


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WcWGg39xFE

 

[rochie]

good stuff

 

[Lucky13]

True! Wish that they had shown more of the English Electric ones...

 

[syscom3]

I saw one at Pima. Sleek looking jet for its time.

 

[nuuumannn]

The Best of British built in America! Great footage. Interesting to see the XB-51 in flight. The tandem crew layout of the B-57 made more sense than the British goldfish bowl cockpit. Beautiful aircraft.

 

[michaelmaltby]

Kapustin Yar

 

[nuuumannn]

Yes, read about this before. Interesting link. I spoke to a former RAF Canberra jock once, he said he used to fly Canberras as high altitude interception targets; neither the Lightnings nor Phantoms could get anywhere near them.

 

[Gnomey]

Nice video Jan! Thanks for sharing.

 

[yulzari]

Yes, read about this before. Interesting link. I spoke to a former RAF Canberra jock once, he said he used to fly Canberras as high altitude interception targets; neither the Lightnings nor Phantoms could get anywhere near them.

Reminds me of RAF Vulcan pilots finding that they could outmanouvre F14s at maximum altitude due to huge amounts of wing area.

 

[Zipper730]

Reminds me of RAF Vulcan pilots finding that they could outmanouvre F14s at maximum altitude due to huge amounts of wing area.

Yeah, the wing-area was huge, the wetted area was small, the span was substantial. The Canberra from what I remember could reach altitudes that were something like 54000 feet.

 

[tyrodtom]

Of course a fighter that can keep the bomber manuvering at altitude, delays the bomber and gives other fighters time to intercept.

 

[Zipper730]

Of course a fighter that can keep the bomber manuvering at altitude, delays the bomber and gives other fighters time to intercept.

Of course, however it produces a smaller sequence of events that make an intercept possible.

 

[Wildr1]

Printed from negs from the information office, 366th T.A.C. Ftr Wg 1972 (Personal files)

 

[Wurger]

 

[wuzak]

Reminds me of RAF Vulcan pilots finding that they could outmanouvre F14s at maximum altitude due to huge amounts of wing area.

Of course a fighter that can keep the bomber manuvering at altitude, delays the bomber and gives other fighters time to intercept.

Of course, however it produces a smaller sequence of events that make an intercept possible.

Of course an F-14 would have launched an Phoenix from about 100 miles away and blow the Vulcan out of the sky.

But I wonder if the story was originally an F-4 Phantom II?

 

[Zipper730]

Of course an F-14 would have launched an Phoenix from about 100 miles away and blow the Vulcan out of the sky.

Probably, but the Vulcan had good jammers.

 

[nuuumannn]

Probably, but the Vulcan had good jammers

I doubt they could jam a Phoenix though. During the Falklands War on Black Buck raids, each Vulcan carried a single AN/ALQ-101 E-10 ECM pod, commonly known as Dash Ten pods the Americans supplied to the Royal Navy for use on their Buccaneers. The Vulcan's Red Shrimp (gotta love those British Cold War code names) self defence measures were not regarded as sophisticated enough to jam the modern US supplied air defence radars the Argentinians were using.

 

[Zipper730]

I doubt they could jam a Phoenix though.

Forgot about the home-on-jam feature...