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Old October 10th 03, 04:22 PM
OXMORON1
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Chris asked:
Can anyone point to written material or resources
that might be worth having a look at?


The best "single" source work on the B-57 is probably Robert Mikesh's "Canberra
at War". There are two versions out, they ae essentially the same book, just a
later edition IIRC.

If you have done a "Google" then you have probably found the B-57 homepage.
Also look at the UK original source and use by the British, Argentines and
Pakistanis.

The B-57 was a highly usefull a/c for it's era and electronics capabilities.
That you can translate as "map reading and the ADF got pretty good reception"
until the later EB-57 and B-57G. The RB-57E did great work in SEA, The B-57B
could loiter for hours ( well at least 1.5 ) witing on targets.
Definitely not a stealth a/c, radar return bigger than hell from the wide chord
wing.
There was a posting on this group yesterday about NASA using their a/c to
monitor the next round of shuttle launches.

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