“After completing a BACN deployment at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan, one of the NASA’s last two flying WB-57Fs is on its way back to Ellington Field, Texas.”
http://theaviationist.com/tag/air-force-special-operations-command/
The Martin B-57 was a license-built version of the English Electric Canberra. Production of the Canberra began in 1946, but then first flight was in 1949. The U.S. Air Force began using the B-57 in 1953. Sixty were lost in Vietnam, including two Australian.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_B-57_Canberra
Not bad for an airplane that first flew 64 years ago.
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Wednesday, May 1, 2013
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