ENGLISH ELECTRIC CANBERRA PR9 APPRECIATION (airshowvision)

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To celebrate the return to flight of the Ex-RAF examples of the type - here is a little appreciation video celebrating the Canberra PR9 aircraft which retired from RAF service in 2006 and has been sadly missed ever since.
It began its' career as a bomber, and went on to have an exceptional length of service, finally ending its' life as a Photo Reconnasance aircraft, which it performed exceptionally well being able to fly so high.
In this video we see it perform a taxi run in private hands at the Kemble Air Day 2007, followed by one of its' final airshow displays as an RAF aircraft the year before (2006) at the Waddington airshow. Included is the famous "blue note pass".

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@charlierumoldboi3939 2 года назад

What an amazing aircraft. As a teen in the late 70's I remember these flying everyday over our house. Plus Victors, Hunters, Lightenings etc. You simply can't beat these 50's jets.

@kevinrollins7710 11 лет назад

7:28 is one of the coolest sounds I have ever heard out of an airplane! Excellent video.

@GrahamB46 9 лет назад

At Tengah in Singapore I watched in awe as an RNZAF Canberra looped-the-loop on take-off, still within the bounds of the airbase. This was about 1968. RAF was holding a celebration for the last operational flight of the Gloucester Meteor.

@TheDustysix 9 лет назад

I served in a USMC tactical squadron at RNAFB Orlund Norway in the early winter 1980. One day, on my way to chow a RAF Canberra made a simulated attack on the airfield. It made incredible high speed s pattern level turns at about 400 feet AGL. It flew right over me, gaping at it, looking in its bomb bay. I'll bet they could prove surprise on the BB camera film.

@MarcosTMoraSosa 10 лет назад

Excelent airplane, my father flew it for many years in the venezuelan airforce

@MiMapaVe 11 лет назад

My dad had One Thousand hours flying it here in Venezuela...

@TedConingsby 2 года назад

I have just visited the gate guardian at RAF WYTON after seeing the Canberra at the Cornwall Aviation Heritage Centre and just had to see it fly. Thank you for your video. I make fun videos around RAF bases and I’m stunned and fascinated by the CANBERRA 🧸🇬🇧

@airshowvision 2 года назад

Great stuff!!!!!

@josealejandroalvaradobotei8584 5 лет назад

Que gran avión se le extrañara 😔👍 lo tuvimos acá en Chile

@fredwarwick9072 6 лет назад

I serviced these aircraft as part of my National Service in the R A F 1954 1956.

@Socratease1 11 лет назад

I really do hope so!

@JasonJason210 4 года назад

At 7:28 I can smell that aircraft.

@RicardoPereira-mk3zt 5 лет назад

isso e um aviao eletrico ?

@anels9 6 лет назад

What is the blue note pass?

@airshowvision 6 лет назад

The Blue Note is the moaning sound the aircraft makes as it hammers past at high speed

@martintaylor9204 7 лет назад

I served in the RAF and worked on the PR9, and PR7 Canberras as an Air Camera Fitter during the early 1980s while based at RAF Wyton. The PR9 was definitely the cream of the fleet, although in my opinion there were too few of them available to 1 PRU which resulted in numerous role changes on a daily basis. Still a beautiful aircraft, with a unique and wonderful sound, both on the ground and in flight.

@parthomajumdar3691 6 лет назад

A Good Jet Fighter Bomber... Used by our Indian Air Force during 1965 & 1971 War... Last shows the action in 1999 Kargil Operation for Recon mission...

@D3nZiG 8 лет назад

7:28 love the howl

@andrewockenden 3 года назад

This is one of the PR9s that I worked on during 1962/63 when I was on 58 Squadron at RAF Wyton. All the squadron's PR9s, were reassigned to 39 Squadron which was then, I think, based in Cyprus. We had a big push to get Flap and Aileron shroud modifications completed before the aircraft were redeployed. I think 39 Squadron, having re-equipped with our PR9s, of which XH135 was one, then relocated to Malta. It was certainly a great aircraft with the most powerfu versions of the Avon engine used on the type.

@Socratease1 11 лет назад

Thank you airshow vision, that really did bring back some wonderful memories! The first time I saw and got close up to a PR9 was way back in the late 70s when I was an air cadet in the Air Training Corps and we had a fantastic summer camp at RAF Wyton. We had a superb tour of the aircraft hosted by one of the operational pilots who apologized for the fishy smell having bought a substantial load of freshly caught fish from Malta! The photo interpretation work that was involved was amazing.

@hughrowe8326 5 лет назад

Worked on 39 Sqdn Malta 69-71. Great a/c.

@AlfieDoug 2 года назад

I have spent hours refuelling, servicing and performing compass swings on that aircraft at RAF Wyton in the 70's happy days.

@airshowvision 2 года назад

Golden Days for the RAF.

@AlfieDoug 2 года назад

@@airshowvision Absolutely, I got to do the Fiji detachment with 39sqdn memory of a lifetime :- )

@airshowvision 11 лет назад

You are welcome. Hopefully you will see it display again for real soon.

@robert11751 8 лет назад

sexy looking jet love the design, air force used them in nam

@monroe111 10 лет назад

My father worked on these during the 80s

@demonicpigeon4568 7 лет назад

Andrew davi lol really mine did too ha ha 39 sqn

@martintaylor9204 7 лет назад

I worked with 39 Sqn and the No. 1 PRU at RAF Wyton between 1981 and 1983. I was a "Mary", which was a cross between a Mole and a Fairy, your dad will explain.

@andrewockenden 7 лет назад

I worked on these at RAF Wyton in 1962! 58 Squadron Alis Nocturnis! Then the aircraft were posted to 39 Squadron at Cyprus before they moved to Malta!

@gordonmcgeachie6462 6 лет назад

I served at Wyton between 1988 and 1992, worked in the MAREL cabins just behind the hanger

@RicardoPereira-mk3zt 5 лет назад

se alguem entendi minha lingua me diga que tipo e esse aviao e qual a finalidade dele desde ja muito obrigado

@Grifiki 10 лет назад

"We had a couple when I was in the RAF, in Kenya!"

@Grifiki 10 лет назад

:"You can bet no less than a Winco is at the controls!"

@johnbenton4488 9 лет назад

And as yet (2015) to be replaced.

@Jonay1990 9 лет назад

Nice video, thanks for sharing!

@garynew9637 4 года назад

Hats on the flightline?

@Socratease1 11 лет назад

Endorsed.

@Socratease1 11 лет назад

Wonderful!

@louisgordon4388 10 лет назад

Why is the cockpit off set to one side?

@wibblywobble7068 8 лет назад

+Louis Gordon I think the Navigator seat is just behind and below so I guess to make space? (I have no idea how they are designed but I saw Pilot / Navigator and saw the little hatch)

@annerobinson2086 5 лет назад

The navigator sat in the nose seat, entering by swinging the nose cone out to get in. very claustrophobic! the cameras were also operated from there.

@budyeddi5814 Год назад

IIRC there's also 2 seats behind and below the pilot as well

@gordonmcgeachie6462 6 лет назад

a truly wonderful aircraft, The pilot of XH134 was S/L Terry cairns, his length of service in the RAF was extended so he could see the Canberra out of service, I saw 134 at Waddington a few years ago, and as an ex RAF Wyton guy, sent my air show programme to him at Marham and got the pictures in the programme signed by all the aircrew.My late father used to work on the Canberra, and told me a story about one taking pictures of a U2 spyplane..................from above, really upset the USAF

@jeffwalther3935 6 лет назад

The canberra bomber was a cold war mercy contract from the us to the uk military aviation complex to keep it going when the vagaries of the cold war were unable to sustain the political will in war-weary britain to make realistic outlays and social sacrifices for a true weapon system that actually would be able to outfly any opposition and accomplish a valid war purpose. It sucked money from other, better peoples and projects for no good reason. Its unreasonable production and (ab)use hurt both countries national security, wasted a generation of pilots and crew resources, etc. at a time when such waste could be/may still be catastrophic. The Canberra's obvious obsolescence on rollout showed our enemies we weren't seriously defending ourselves.

@BernardLS 3 года назад

So why do NASA still fly them?

@BernardLS 3 года назад

Oh! So silly of course one was laying the irony on with a trowel. How droll.

@jeffwalther3935 3 года назад

@@BernardLS It was obsolete for the strategic nuclear war combat role, but an available jet airframe to be used more as rugged, no frills, general use, high altitude vehicle of any type with plenty of cheap, spare parts and people who useta work and fly on them too, so it was an economical choice, not just an aeronautical performance/quality choice-based decision. "No bucks, no buck rodgers." Primarily though, remember, NASA could get any suitible US military vehicle, its true, objective, real time, performance records and data at no or lowest costs too. The Canberra's size, inobtrusive looks, relatively mediochre, semi-high speeds and range made it just the right choice for their unique needs from what's available and other available makes and models.

@BernardLS 3 года назад

@@jeffwalther3935 Ah! the merit of mediocrity. Everybody has an opinion and ours will probably always differ on the subject of the Canberra. Do you have an opinion on the Antonov AN2? Once said to be ‘like Marmite, it is either loved or hated’.

@jeffwalther3935 3 года назад

@@BernardLSNo opinion.

@pervertt Год назад

There's something distinctly odd about a bomber where the pilot climbs on board, takes off, and proceeds to throw it around the sky as if it were a fighter.

@airshowvision Год назад

That's what the flying commitees at farnborough thought back in the 1960's when they stopped the test pilots from rolling the Vulcan. Shame!