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Martin WB-57 (N927NA)
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Martin WB-57 (N927NA)

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Paul Wisgerhof
This is one of a very few flying B-57s of any type.
bbabis
Beautiful wing!
befreefilm
This must be one of the 3 RB-57F's still flying.
Nice shot!
Alan Brown
Beautiful photo! Thanks. That modified wing must give it quite a bit of lift at high altitudes.
ken kemper
Wonderful Photo Brendan.......

Might be best of the week and beautiful vintage link to a jet bomber of the early jet age.
David Apps
Incredibly versatile aircraft
maalnnuq648519
Oh! WB57! It's the first time I've seen him flying.
Very nice.
Stephen Mitchell
The Canberra lives on
Francesco Morchio
I am happy i could recognize it in a matter of seconds... great plane
eLaReF
Wow! Great shot
N927NA is the one that spent 41 years in storage at MASDC/AMARC/AMARG (The name changed a few times) and flew away in 2013 to be rebuilt for NASA
Chris Landis
I was in Kandahar, Afghanistan 2014 through 2016. We had one on the ramp next to us. Not sure what it's mission was but it was cool to see it fly!
Richard Ashley
Very nice
Mike Whetstone
Once heard someone report that they were at 78,000 on my scanner; didn't think to much about it until I was driving to work. Then I realized, "Wait a minute! Nobody flies that high; nobody needs to." Started researching what could even achieve that and found NAS927 and NAS928; been a fan ever since.
fholbert
Great shot!
Luis Orpinell
NASA Martin B-57 Canberra. What a spectacular, this bird is almost 60 years old. woow
Kirk Saxon
Never have seen one of these before. Very cool. Looks intense.
Karl Scribner
There was a group of B-57s based at Battle Creek in the 1950s or 60s. They had a different high pitch sound as they flew past.
frank theriault
Beautiful aircraft, beautiful light! What a terrific photo!
John Sukovich
In the spring of 1964, the Air Force transferred me from Berlin to the 6937 Communications Group outside of Peshawar, Pakistan. We flew up from Karachi on a C-130, and after deplaning we boarded a bus to the Comm Group. As we rode through the USAF portion of Peshawar Air Base, one of these was parked outside a hangar. One of the guys on the bus asked “What he hell is that???”

Just the week before, I had spent a few hours in the St, Petersburg FL public library, killing some time while on leave between assignments. (I had planned to travel around Europe before heading to Pakistan, but the Air Force had decided I needed additional training back in the US.) While in the library, I perused the latest edition of Jane’s All The World Aircraft, and saw an article on it.

“Oh,” I said, “that’s an RB-57H! It’s used for weather recon.”

An NCO on the bus looked at me rather strangely. I later found out why.

Note the reference to a Peshawar in the article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin/General_Dynamics_RB-57F_Canberra
John Sukovich
Keep in mind: Peshawar was the starting point for Gray Francis Powers’ ill-fated U2 mission over the USSR.
Ken Fedder
Great pic, with the angle of the Sun as it is, the wings at a distance look as though they do not have Ailerons.
William Owens
We used to see these flying out of EFD for NASA. The engines were really high pitched whine. You could tell it was coming long before you could see it! Elent Hi altitude...
Michael Winblad
They replaced the U2 overfly missions during the Cuba Crisis, after the Russians demanded we stop the "U2" missions. Our primary mission was to sample the A bomb clouds at high altitude, both domestic and foreign.
doug marshburn
In the early '60's they operated out of R.M. A.B .
doug marshburn
@JohnSukovich That is very interesting story , thanks for posting .
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क्या आप 1998 से N927NA के लिए पूरा इतिहास खोज चाहते हैं? अभी खरीदें। एक घंटे में इसे पायें।
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27-मार्च-2024 WB57Houston Ellington ()Houston Ellington () 11:09 CDT 15:38 CDT 4:29
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