Incredible film, thanks for posting it. when I was at Warton, we still had Canberra and Lightning, and though I was always a Spitfire fan I loved to see those 2 flying, good old Teddy Petter.
This film brought tears in my father´s eyes. He began his training in the Canberra in 1950 and flew it until 1972 in the venezuelan airforce. Many memories of this "Warhorse"
My husband , Gerry Willis, who ejected from a Canberra whilst at RAF Bruggen, often spoke of QRAs and Labs runs. He actually took off for real but was fortunately called back! Gerry later piloted a Canberra for the Luftwaffe out of Whan, military side of Cologne Airport. The Canberra used for 'map making' and looking over the border into the East, was painted a day glo red. She looked magnificent and Gerry , who sadly died recently, remained a a Canberra man at heart
A bit late in saying so, but delighted to read your story Anne. Thanks for letting us know about Gerry and his Luftwaffe outing...Not the first time I've heard about Gerry in the Luftwaffe mind.. Maybe he would have ended up a TSR2 man if history was more aircraft loving?
PS Those red Canberras looked amazing. On the night of the Cuban crisis the British bombers truly wondered if they would have an airport to return home to..Scary thought, and so close to happening.
THE BEST Photo reconnaisance aircraft the RAF ever had - it now cant be replaced as the new aircraft arent up to the job! I served in the RAF during the cold war as an airframe fitter and remember these beautiful aircraft fondly. I hoped one day to buy my own but sadly I have nowhere to put it so thats that. Farwell old girl High Flight............we shall never forget you.
The Royal Australian Air Force used Canberra Bombers with great success in the vietnam war, Nu 2 squadron flew out of the Phan Rang air base from 1967 to 1971
As a young SAC Gunner stationed at RAF Bruggen in the early 90s we were tasked to provide guard of honour for some Russian General visiting as part of the disarmament treaty, we use the Pan at RAF Laarbruch to practice our Arms Drill one of these landed and taxied to a halt and crew buggered off to the mess i took the chance to have a wee nosey after first gaining permission from the chiefy of the ground crew , the smell of old leather old metal and electric’s was a heady tonic. As i was sticking my head into the open hatch the rather small pilot came over and gave me a Bollocking for daring to look in side his A/C turns out it was a certain F/lt Rory Underwood one time England Rugby player, thought he was a bit of a twat...
The RAAF loved their Canberras as well. My old man flew recon as well as doing air shows. As a lad I helped load the bomb bay with small weather ballons to be dropped over the crowds.
Here I am learning about yet another great British aircraft and it's long history of success around the world. I'm so interested because my earliest memories are of the Mojave desert where my dad was a test pilot at Edwards, after that he went civilian and became test pilot and aeronautical engineer at McDonnell Aircraft in St Louis, Missouri flying the F4H Phantom II. I am still in St Louis. The greatest generation, it is said, and I agree, hardly any left now, what a huge loss. These youngsters nowadays are clueless, without any character whatsoever.
Wonderful, the Canberra shocked the Americans with how darn good it was. Roland was one of the very best of British along with Winkle and the other great test pilots of those halcyon times
Back in the day, when I was a mere SAC at RAF Bruggen, we had 13 of these machines to play with. How well I remember QRA (with proper bombs!) and LABS runs. All gone now, thank goodness. No more bombs, no more Cold War, no more Russian spies, and no more bloody alerts! And no more 'steaks' from the Airmans' Mess.
Top hole. Bally Jerry pranged his kite right in the how's your father. Hairy blighter, dicky-birdied, feathered back on his Sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harper's and caught his can in the Bertie.
I am an American. The Canberra served very well as a Recon. aircraft. One of the most daring Missions was a U2 style Photo recon mission. Later the wings were lengthened for safer higher altitude Recon.
The RNZAF had these. I was very saddened that the TSR2 was not opted for by the Australians which, with the RAF purchase, would have made it commercially feasible.
My favourite moment with the Canberra was seeing a PR9 whilst flying a single seat glider with Cambridge Gliding Club, circa 1999/2000. I tried, unsuccessfully, to get a picture with a disposable camera - just got a hemp brown coloured blob.
There was likely another operational RAF use, it's long been rumoured that 39 Sqn PR.9's operated from Chile in the Falklands war. Ascension was too far away. Reportedly they were painted in Chilean AF markings though Chile had been one of the few Latin American AF's that had not used the Canberra. After the war, 3 RAF PR.9's were given to the Chilean AF. 39 Sqn also received a Falklands battle honour though officially they never took part.
Loved my time on AEF and PRU as a young rigger Cpl. Chilean groundcrew were not given access to all the Air Publications and actually spent lunchtimes copying the Vol 1 out, longhand! They were really nice guys. One PR9 was bounced on the way back to Chile when the pilot mistakenly confused nose wheel rumble with something more serious and banged out. I seem to remember only 1 aircraft made it across the world to S. America.
When I came to the US, a cousin, was driving, and behold there were 2 Canberras flying , near Westchester County Airport, THey from I believe Nat Guard, 1961, at that time I had no clue that US had bought these, then with changes, Martin Company.
I remember a Harrier crashing in the fields at the back of my house near Fosdyke in Lincolnshire..We had a Canberra flying around for a few days afterwards, presumably taking pictures...The Harrier pilot ejected safely and called his wife from a farmers mobile phone before being whisked off to hospital..They were scraping away kerosene contaminated topsoil for days afterwards and the lane to my house was closed for a week except for access.
The Canberra was used as the USAF Martin B-57. A great jet ! I rode a Airspeed prop. plane to Malta and then on to Rome. It was a Friday so I found fish in my pizza - not so good !
My last posting was at Wyton in the late 80's. These days, as I drive past, I'm annoyed and very disappointed at the state of the airfield.... It's a carpark Sadly, a sign of the times and I feel let down by successive governments. Per ardua ad astra
I believe NASA still flies the B-57, in fact they celebrated that fact in thee last few years.Two or three flew in formation over Texas.I'm not posseative on these details,so cut me wee bit of slack.
NASA now has three operational Canberras. They took all three on a low altitude tour of Houston a little over a year ago. Good articles about it in the Houston Chronicle and BBC websites.
I believe that if there was a sudden conflict or alarm state of some kind, the Canberra would be re-commissioned very quickly. This bird can still cause a lot of havoc, and it's not near the junk yard for good yet. An ace card under the sleeve.
Typical RAF - not a mention of the contribution made by the thousands of men and women ground crew who kept the damned things in the air for forty years. Two big parties and the only "other ranks" were providing the entertainment or serving drinks. I served at RAF Cottesmore when there was a massive party in the MT hangar to celebrate the first 1000 flying hours of the Tornado. Jets flown in from bases over three nations; aircrew and officers accompanied by their ladies and where were the 'erks'? On frigging guard.
You know the problem with a Tornado? £30 million worth of kit, 30,000 feet in the air, two officers, not an NCO in sight. How do you know when a Tornado pilot is the room? He tells you.
Not true. I was there in flying suit representing all the NCO aircrew that flew it before the USAF dictated only officers could carry 'special' weapons.
360 Sqn, probably the best squadron in the World. CONFUNDEMUS
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The reason our aircraft industry has gone, government interference, forcing aircraft manufacturers to merge when they didn't want to. Electric Electric were the new boys with this, the Lightening and the lastly the TSR2 and who wanted the TSR2 gone all the other aircraft manufacturers boards, EE made them look like idiots, instead we have what we have now jets designed by politicians and boards more interested in subsidies than building aircraft.
Seeing the vulcan xh558 made this video even better. The Canberra is such a great aircraft and it's history is great as well.
The Canberra's record speaks for itself. Well done and thank you, Teddy Petter.
Incredible film, thanks for posting it. when I was at Warton, we still had Canberra and Lightning, and though I was always a Spitfire fan I loved to see those 2 flying, good old Teddy Petter.
This film brought tears in my father´s eyes. He began his training in the Canberra in 1950 and flew it until 1972 in the venezuelan airforce. Many memories of this "Warhorse"
incredible!!
A great British aircraft which brought back very happy memories of my days in the Royal Rhodesian Airforce
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My husband , Gerry Willis, who ejected from a Canberra whilst at RAF Bruggen, often spoke of QRAs and Labs runs. He actually took off for real but was fortunately called back! Gerry later piloted a Canberra for the Luftwaffe out of Whan, military side of Cologne Airport. The Canberra used for 'map making' and looking over the border into the East, was painted a day glo red. She looked magnificent and Gerry , who sadly died recently, remained a a Canberra man at heart
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A bit late in saying so, but delighted to read your story Anne. Thanks for letting us know about Gerry and his Luftwaffe outing...Not the first time I've heard about Gerry in the Luftwaffe mind..
Maybe he would have ended up a TSR2 man if history was more aircraft loving?
PS Those red Canberras looked amazing.
On the night of the Cuban crisis the British bombers truly wondered if they would have an airport to return home to..Scary thought, and so close to happening.
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THE BEST Photo reconnaisance aircraft the RAF ever had - it now cant be replaced as the new aircraft arent up to the job! I served in the RAF during the cold war as an airframe fitter and remember these beautiful aircraft fondly. I hoped one day to buy my own but sadly I have nowhere to put it so thats that. Farwell old girl High Flight............we shall never forget you.
The Royal Australian Air Force used Canberra Bombers with great success in the vietnam war, Nu 2 squadron flew out of the Phan Rang air base from 1967 to 1971
I'm 82 now and still cherish memories of my time as ground crew on the B6 bomber
As a young SAC Gunner stationed at RAF Bruggen in the early 90s we were tasked to provide guard of honour for some Russian General visiting as part of the disarmament treaty, we use the Pan at RAF Laarbruch to practice our Arms Drill one of these landed and taxied to a halt and crew buggered off to the mess i took the chance to have a wee nosey after first gaining permission from the chiefy of the ground crew , the smell of old leather old metal and electric’s was a heady tonic. As i was sticking my head into the open hatch the rather small pilot came over and gave me a Bollocking for daring to look in side his A/C turns out it was a certain F/lt Rory Underwood one time England Rugby player, thought he was a bit of a twat...
lol
The RAAF loved their Canberras as well. My old man flew recon as well as doing air shows. As a lad I helped load the bomb bay with small weather ballons to be dropped over the crowds.
Here I am learning about yet another great British aircraft and it's long history of success around the world. I'm so interested because my earliest memories are of the Mojave desert where my dad was a test pilot at Edwards, after that he went civilian and became test pilot and aeronautical engineer at McDonnell Aircraft in St Louis, Missouri flying the F4H Phantom II. I am still in St Louis. The greatest generation, it is said, and I agree, hardly any left now, what a huge loss. These youngsters nowadays are clueless, without any character whatsoever.
Wonderful, the Canberra shocked the Americans with how darn good it was. Roland was one of the very best of British along with Winkle and the other great test pilots of those halcyon times
What a great film!
Back in the day, when I was a mere SAC at RAF Bruggen, we had 13 of these machines to play with. How well I remember QRA (with proper bombs!) and LABS runs. All gone now, thank goodness. No more bombs, no more Cold War, no more Russian spies, and no more bloody alerts! And no more 'steaks' from the Airmans' Mess.
What beautiful planes English Electric made:Canberra and Lightning.
Don't forget the TSR-2. Shame it never made it into production.
Thankyou, brought a tear to my eye.
Top hole. Bally Jerry pranged his kite right in the how's your father. Hairy blighter, dicky-birdied, feathered back on his Sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harper's and caught his can in the Bertie.
I am an American. The Canberra served very well as a Recon. aircraft. One of the most daring Missions was a U2 style Photo recon mission. Later the wings were lengthened for safer higher altitude Recon.
Thanks Bob. Really interesting documentary.
I dare say Bea was the U.K.'s equivilent to our Bob Hoover. A superb pilot and he was really putting the Canberra through its paces!
Serviced the flash crates at Wyton bomb dump in 1977/78. Great memories of my time there and the PR9.
The RNZAF had these. I was very saddened that the TSR2 was not opted for by the Australians which, with the RAF purchase, would have made it commercially feasible.
The epitaph at the beginning.. I lived in Huntingdon at the time.. A superb low flying noise and shape..
My favourite moment with the Canberra was seeing a PR9 whilst flying a single seat glider with Cambridge Gliding Club, circa 1999/2000. I tried, unsuccessfully, to get a picture with a disposable camera - just got a hemp brown coloured blob.
Great film, great aircraft.
There was likely another operational RAF use, it's long been rumoured that 39 Sqn PR.9's operated from Chile in the Falklands war. Ascension was too far away.
Reportedly they were painted in Chilean AF markings though Chile had been one of the few Latin American AF's that had not used the Canberra.
After the war, 3 RAF PR.9's were given to the Chilean AF.
39 Sqn also received a Falklands battle honour though officially they never took part.
Loved my time on AEF and PRU as a young rigger Cpl. Chilean groundcrew were not given access to all the Air Publications and actually spent lunchtimes copying the Vol 1 out, longhand! They were really nice guys. One PR9 was bounced on the way back to Chile when the pilot mistakenly confused nose wheel rumble with something more serious and banged out. I seem to remember only 1 aircraft made it across the world to S. America.
When I came to the US, a cousin, was driving, and behold there were 2 Canberras flying , near Westchester County Airport, THey from I believe Nat Guard, 1961, at that time I had no clue that US had bought these, then with changes, Martin Company.
Looked out the window as Reg took off and the T4 crashed in 91. Awful day. He was previously 100 Sun WngCo. Really nice guy.
I was at Wyton remember the crash well, was on tanker pool at the time, saw the jet go into the fields behind us. Tragic, Wing Co Reg a top guy.
@@steveboniface9966 I believe one of the MT SACW was catatonic in med centre after witness it going past the MT control window.
B-57 the american built Canberra is still being used by NASA
I remember a Harrier crashing in the fields at the back of my house near Fosdyke in Lincolnshire..We had a Canberra flying around for a few days afterwards, presumably taking pictures...The Harrier pilot ejected safely and called his wife from a farmers mobile phone before being whisked off to hospital..They were scraping away kerosene contaminated topsoil for days afterwards and the lane to my house was closed for a week except for access.
The Canberra is the epitome of the maxim:"If it looks right,it is right".
The Canberra was used as the USAF Martin B-57. A great jet ! I rode a Airspeed prop. plane to Malta and then on to Rome. It was a Friday so I found fish in my pizza - not so good !
You're mistaken, fish pizzas are delicious it's pineapple that does not belong on a pizza😉
My Dad (Colin Barter) flew PR9s in Wyton and St Mawgan. Would be very interested to talk to anyone who remembers Dad. He sadly passed way last year.
My last posting was at Wyton in the late 80's. These days, as I drive past, I'm annoyed and very disappointed at the state of the airfield.... It's a carpark
Sadly, a sign of the times and I feel let down by successive governments.
Per ardua ad astra
Think I've still got a master key, for the cockpit door for those. (Ex 249 squadron. Cyprus.)Actually flew in one, on detachment in Malaya c.1965?
It was a nice jet and so we get a license to build it as a B-57 :)
I believe NASA still flies the B-57, in fact they celebrated that fact in thee last few years.Two or three flew in formation over Texas.I'm not posseative on these details,so cut me wee bit of slack.
NASA now has three operational Canberras. They took all three on a low altitude tour of Houston a little over a year ago. Good articles about it in the Houston Chronicle and BBC websites.
I believe that if there was a sudden conflict or alarm state of some kind, the Canberra would be re-commissioned very quickly. This bird can still cause a lot of havoc, and it's not near the junk yard for good yet. An ace card under the sleeve.
Great aircraft. The B-57 version did great work in Vietnam.
As did the RAAF No. 2 Squadron flying Canberra B20's out of Phan Rang.
It did better work in Rhodesia imo
@@skuzapo9365 how can it do “better” work?
Yeah, blew up a lot of rice paddies.
Isn't that Padre Ivan Weston at 15:36?
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sure they had photo reccie canberra and meat-boxes with 85....?????????sqn at binbrook in the 60's.............
It was used to bomb operationally by the Rhodesian Air Force.
Typical RAF - not a mention of the contribution made by the thousands of men and women ground crew who kept the damned things in the air for forty years. Two big parties and the only "other ranks" were providing the entertainment or serving drinks. I served at RAF Cottesmore when there was a massive party in the MT hangar to celebrate the first 1000 flying hours of the Tornado. Jets flown in from bases over three nations; aircrew and officers accompanied by their ladies and where were the 'erks'? On frigging guard.
You know the problem with a Tornado? £30 million worth of kit, 30,000 feet in the air, two officers, not an NCO in sight. How do you know when a Tornado pilot is the room? He tells you.
Not true. I was there in flying suit representing all the NCO aircrew that flew it before the USAF dictated only officers could carry 'special' weapons.
I watched a javelin XH906 at akrotiri Cyprus take the tail off Canberra WD995 and crashed just at the eastern end of the r/way in oct 61
One of our Scores, in ''82, was an Argentine Canberra, 25 miles out at 50,000', by a Seadart missile.
It was a magnificent flying machine.But did you miss the fact that the Indian Air Force did fly it and did considerable service during some wars?
360 Sqn, probably the best squadron in the World. CONFUNDEMUS
The reason our aircraft industry has gone, government interference, forcing aircraft manufacturers to merge when they didn't want to. Electric Electric were the new boys with this, the Lightening and the lastly the TSR2 and who wanted the TSR2 gone all the other aircraft manufacturers boards, EE made them look like idiots, instead we have what we have now jets designed by politicians and boards more interested in subsidies than building aircraft.
The RB57 could fly at 90,000 ft.
wow didnt know that the argentines had canberra's!
NASA are still flying the Martin versions over Afghanistan 2018
Why are NASA flying them in Afghanistan? They’re used as research aircraft