6016 x 3875 px | 50,9 x 32,8 cm | 20,1 x 12,9 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
10. September 2016
Ort:
East Fortune, Scotland,
Weitere Informationen:
The Military Aircraft Hanger at Scotland's National Museum of Flight at East Fortune, with the nose of a record-breaking Canberra which begun as a PR.3 but was completed as the B.5 prototype in 1951. It first flew in August of that year and was transferred to the English Electric Co in the September. It stayed with EE Co for just over a year during which time it captured an Atlantic Crossing record. VX185 made its record-breaking double crossing of the Atlantic on 26 August 1952. It was flown from RAF Aldergrove (Northern Ireland) to Gander (Canada) and back by Wing Commander RP Beamont and crewed by Peter Hillwood and Dennis Watson. The flight took 10 hours 3 minutes 29.28 seconds at an average speed of 411.99 mph. In 1954, VX185 was sent to BAC Warton for conversion to B(I)8 configuration. In 1955 it was transferred to A&AEE for a while before going to Ferranti as a "target" for their flight trials with AI Radar. 1958 saw VX 185 transferred yet again, this time to Short Bros in Belfast (at RAF Aldergrove) for development work in the PR.9 program. It was short-lived here though as in 1959 VX185 was transferred to RAF St Athan as a Ground Instructional Airframe. Eventually VX185 went to BAC Filton in 1961 and was broken up there in 1964. When it was converted to a B(I)8 in 1954, the nose of this record-breaking Canberra, in Bomber Command's black/grey colours, was acquired by the Science Museum in London. Also on display is Supermarine Spitfire XVI (TE462), Bristol Fairchild Bolingbroke (9940) and Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet rocket fighter (191659) The National Museum of Flight is Scotland's national aviation museum at East Fortune Airfield, in East Lothian. The museum is housed in the original wartime buildings of RAF East Fortune which is one of the best preserved wartime airfields in the UK. As a result of this the entire site is a scheduled ancient monument with no permanent structures added by the museum.
