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Free Download The Canberra Experience: Air and Ground Crews from Around the World Tell Their Stories by Steven Beeny
English | October 16, 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0CL68Y6KQ | PDF | 69 Mb
The English Electric Canberra was an international workhorse, known for its versatility and durability, yet often overshadowed by more glamourous designs.

Free Download English Electric Canberra Profiles and Plan Views Vol. 2: Worldwide Service by Steven Beeny
English | October 16, 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0CL8L88GS | PDF | 25 Mb
Filled with 128 profiles and 66 plan views, take a journey through six decades of the English Electric & GAF Canberra in worldwide service. Volume 2 features a wide variety of export variants in a rich panoply of colour schemes and payloads. Concise aircraft histories are included, covering date of manufacture, squadron service, airframe fate and other facts of interest. Profiles include both airborne and parked views, while plan and underside projections give view to open bomb bays and stores. Weathering accurate to local conditions, bomb trolleys, open hatches, chocks and other accessories all help bring the much-loved workhorse to life. Discover sides to the Canberra you never knew and see how this British export success looked in the different colours of the world’s Air Forces.

Free Download English Electric Canberra Profiles and Plan Views Vol. 1: British Service 1949-2006 by Steven Beeny
English | October 16, 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0CL7WZ3RN | PDF | 24 Mb
Loaded with 120 profiles and 46 plan views, take a journey through six decades of the English Electric Canberra in British service. From the prototype A.1 in ‘Petter Blue’ to 39 Sqn’s last PR.9s in Afghan recon grey, Volume 1 features both classic and more obscure variants in a wide variety of colour schemes and markings. Concise aircraft histories are included, covering date of manufacture, squadron service, airframe fate and other facts of interest. Profiles include both airborne and parked views, and plan and underside projections give view to open bomb bays and payloads. As we know, no two Canberras are the same, and weathering details, bomb trolleys, open hatches, chocks and other accessories all help bring the much-loved workhorse to life. About the only thing missing is that Canberra smell!

Free Download Canberra Builder – Edition 3 2023
English | 72 pages | PDF | 41.10 MB

Free Download Tim McLelland – Canberra: Britain’s First Jet Bomber (Aeroplane Icons)
Kelsey Publishing | 2014 | ISBN: 1909786497 | English | 132 pages | PDF | 121.12 MB
The history of the jet engine’s development is well known, and the story of how the jet engine eventually became the basis of Britain’s fi rst jet fi ghter (the Meteor) is familiar to almost anyone with an interest in aviation. However, it is perhaps interesting to note how the development of a jet-powered bomber is a story that far fewer people understand, even though the creation of such an aircraft was undoubtedly as important as the fi ghter’s development – if not more so. English Electric’s Canberra bomber was created without fuss and fanfare, and without any significant delays or disasters. It was perhaps this straightforward process that has encouraged commentators to almost ignore the Canberra as a relatively unimportant part of Britain’s aviation history. But the Canberra was far from mundane. At the time of the aircraft’s development, the RAF’s Bomber Command relied upon aged, obsolescent Lincolns that were barely superior to the Lancasters from which they had been derived. The Canberra was a proverbial breath of fresh air. It was fast, it could climb to hitherto unattainable altitudes and it was astonishingly manoeuvrable.

Free Download Robert C. Mikesh – B-57 Canberra at War 1964-1972
Ian Allan | 1980 | ISBN: 0711010048 | English | 161 pages | PDF | 141.56 MB
As the RAF’s first jet bomber in 1951, the English Electric Canberra has risen to be one of the longest serving military aircraft of all time.