Gone, but not forgotten

[Tins]

https://youtu.be/ueTyI6KpQWU

[JDNSW]

Last time I looked there were still one or two still in service in the USA!

[Tins]

Last time I looked there were still one or two still in service in the USA!

Perhaps they aren't all philistines after all... Lovely aircraft.

[vnx205]

What about this one?
English Electric Canberra - Rego: VH-ZSQ Military S/N: WJ680 (https://aviationmuseum.com.au/english-electric-canberra/)

[ramblingboy42]

I had the pleasure of seeing them in operational status in Butterworth, Malaysia , while I was posted there on ops with the Army for almost 12 months.

Met some of the crew who really enjoyed operating them.

At the time the RAAF were still flying Wallaby Airlines , with the Caribou and the Douglas.

92 wing were active 24/7 and the RAN flew their wonderful noise machines , the Grunman Trackers in and out as well.

I had access to a lot of the crews through a senior ATC officer friend of mine and I must say the calibre and attitude of these crews made it an absolute pleasure to meet with them , far different to the modern pilots and crew , I'm sorry to say.

ps . there was something "wrong" with the knucks.....ex raffies will know what I mean.

[Hugh Jars]

My former boss flew them in the RAAF. He appears in the recent centenary doco, a lot younger, conducting a mission briefing in B/W.

[GIL]

Hi Folks,


This item is in the latest Temora Museum newsletter regarding the Canberra.

Regards
GIL

-----------
ENGLISH ELECTRIC CANBERRA

The news that you have all been waiting for is here!!

English Electric Canberra TT.18 (VH-ZSQ, WJ-680), one of 11 aircraft in The Royal Australian Air Force’s (RAAF) 100 Squadron Temora Historic Flight collection, returns to flight after an 11-year hiatus, last flown on 5th June 2010.

After a three-year restoration process, the Temora Aviation Museum Engineering Team, led by Chief Engineer Andrew Bishop, and supported by RAAF 100SQN, have successfully converted the highly corrosive cartridge start engines to electric start engines, ensuring the longevity of this aircraft.

The return to service of this aircraft makes it once again the only airworthy Canberra Bomber in Australia, and the RAAF and Temora Aviation Museum are honoured to have been able to ensure her return to the sky.

Test pilot Darren “Buster” Crabb had not flown the aircraft since 2008, but he had this to say after his first flight, “The engineers have done a fantastic restoration, and through our ground school I was able to re-affirm all of the numbers and put them into practice during the first flights”.

There are only three other, heavily modified airworthy Canberras in the world, (Martin WB-57 variants) which are currently in the USA servicing NASA, making this a very rare aircraft indeed!

When the conversion pilot Mark Binskin was asked about his first flight, he said, “I was naturally a little timid with it to start off with, but it is a beautiful aircraft to fly, with plenty of performance, and when you consider it was built in the late 1940s, it really is a great design! It is an absolute honour to be selected to fly this vintage jet, owned and operated by RAAF 100SQN”.

The Temora Aviation Museum and RAAF 100SQN Temora Historic Flight intend on displaying this aircraft publicly at the next Aircraft Showcase in Temora, scheduled for October 9th & 10th, 2021.

-----------

[p38arover]

Some pics I took at Illawarra in 2013.

171998

171999

172000

172001

[3toes]

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210705/f30220e5083fd7a4946a0ea12027ec31.jpg

Canberra A84-234 seen at Laverton in March 1957


They were more trusting in those days with the kids being allowed to examine and touch the plane without out guards and fences

[3toes]

Sorry just seen that I had the curser in the middle of the screen when took the photo. Find it easier to photograph the screen than download from my scanned photo files

[p38arover]

Uploading photos is dead easy.

[Grumbles]

I recall that as a kid in the first two years of High School seeing the Canberra fly a few times. It's distinctive and unique configuration with those huge wings absolutely fascinated me. A small group of us were military airplane mad to the point that we could identify any plane and recite the specs of all the planes used in WW1.....on both sides of the conflict.

[JDNSW]

Last time I remember seeing these was a couple of PR versions in Port Moresby in 1971. I am pretty sure I have pictures, but I have just checked, and they are not in my digital files - I suspect I have not yet digitised them.

[p38arover]

I recall reading an article in an old American magazine (possibly Popular Science or Popular Mechanics) that, when demonstrated to the US military, it out-performed the American fighters of the time. It was faster and could out-manoeuvre them.