Originally Posted by
bspatz
Back in the early 60s as a schoolboy I went into the ASF hangar at Laarbruch, with my father who was OCASF, and saw a Canberra with the canopy painted white on top. This was presumably to reduce solar glare when flying at height. My father suggested that I ought not to have seen this aircraft and not to mention it. I have always wondered what it was and which sqn operated it, presumably not 540 which had disbanded by then. Can anybody enlighten me?
I would say that what you saw was almost certainly one of the four B.Mk 6 (Mod) aircraft (also known as B.Mk 6RC) used by No.51 Squadron, which had exactly that canopy mod, and that frequently operated from Laarbruch for their SIGINT flights into the Baltic. You might have noticed an extended nose - initially 'pointy' like a pencil, and like the T11/19, and later blunt and round-tipped.
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