English Electric Canberra

stevie;145196 wrote:

It's 65 years today since the first flight of the English Electric Canberra prototype , the A1.
Steve

The Canberra is often said to have the designation A1. In fact, the prototypes were designated EA1 in the "SBAC System" of aircraft designations introduced immediately after WW2. In this, each manufacturer had an identifying letter (E=English Electric) following which the identifiers progressed A1 to A9, then B1 to B9.

The next confirmed EECo designation is EA3 for the production Canberra B.2, following which EA4 was the Canberra T.4. It seems that soon after that, EECo abandoned the SBAC System and began again with project numbers, The first was P.1 -- and we all know what that became.

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I've been looking forward to seeing a Canberra back in the air for so long now so I was in my element at Cosford yesterday -


A beautiful formation. Sounded amazing as well -


Steve

Back in my days (quite a while back) I was at Binbrook.

There, 85 Sqdn had Canberras for part of their role as a target facilities squadron.

The 'unusual' thing about them was the addition of a radome on the nose (not sure of the AI mark).

Anyone got anything in the way of photos or info on them?

ChrisTheAncient;146614 wrote:

Back in my days (quite a while back) I was at Binbrook.

There, 85 Sqdn had Canberras for part of their role as a target facilities squadron.

The 'unusual' thing about them was the addition of a radome on the nose (not sure of the AI mark).

Anyone got anything in the way of photos or info on them?

Some nice pics here of 85 Sqdn Canberras here Chris. Not sure if they're the exact Mk's your after but nice pics never the less -

www.fightercontrol.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=19303

IIRC the mark with the radome used by 85 Sqn was the mark 11, and it was origanally used to train navigators on Javelins.

The pointy nosed Canberras with 85 sqn were ex T.11s with the Javelin radar, these later becoming T.19s, to train Buccaneer radar procedures. 85 sqn and later 7 sqn used them without the kit for aircrew currency.

Mention has been made on the Javelin thread about the ADEN cannons. Was the pack fitted to the B(I) 6 and 8 similar to the Hunter gun pack?

canberra;159668 wrote:

Mention has been made on the Javelin thread about the ADEN cannons. Was the pack fitted to the B(I) 6 and 8 similar to the Hunter gun pack?

No. The Canberra ventral pack contained four 20mm Hispano cannons - similar to those in the Shack nose.

canberra;159668 wrote:

Mention has been made on the Javelin thread about the ADEN cannons. Was the pack fitted to the B(I) 6 and 8 similar to the Hunter gun pack?

The business end of a B(I)6.

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