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1949
1949 - 1452.PDF
SLIGHT AUGUST 25TH, 19-19 On an early outing for the camera, the Canberra is airborne over the coastline of Lancashire—its " home county." are the new jet bomber's very clean lines and low aspect-ratio wing. • Evident in this head-on view English Electric Canberra Details of the First British Jet Bomber (Illastrcted by "Flight" Photographs) AT the forthcoming S.B.A.C. display at Farnborough itwill be seen how extensive has been the past year's' progress with British civil and military aircraft. In the latter category, no one machine is likely to compel more attention than the English Electric Canberra B Mk. I. Concerning this aircraft—Britain's first jet bomber—some information has now been released, augmenting the bare an- nouncement of the Canberra's existence, and the two photo- graphs which followed its 20-minute first flight, in the hands of W/C. R. P. Beamont, D.S.O., D.F.C. on May 13th. The Canberra is described by the official statement as a high-altitude, high-performance bomber, powered bv two Rolls-Royce Avon axial-flow turbojets. Structural design and aerodynamic shape have been evolved for the " attain- ment of high Mach numbers." Flight tests have con- firmed the low drag values. The accompanying Flight photographs of the Canberra give an indication of its aerodynamic refinement. Except for a whip aerial, an unobtrusive tail-skid, and, to a slight degree, the low-drag, one-piece cockpit canopy, not a single Pictured at Warton, the English Electric Company's airfield near Preston, the Canberra is seen to retain its graceful appearance on the ground. B 10
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