Cnaberra.
What a wonderfully nostalgic thread about a wonderful aeroplane. But wasn't the safety speed in a B2, PR3, T4 140 knots ? I remember that speed being drilled into my head at Bassingbourn and having done many crit. speed checks after engineering I seem to remember that those crit. speeds weren't far short of 140.
I will always remember the Canberra as a wonderfully pleasant and easy machine to fly on two engines, but a very demanding machine on one, great training, fly it by the book and it works, stray and you're on your own !
Looking back on my career give me a Canberra for fun and sheer flying pleasure anyday, but if I had to do some asymmetric flying give me a 767 or a VC10. !
I still remember with a smile, the guy who opened his bomb doors to slow down on an icing approach, quite forgetting the full pannier, a depositing his goodies across north East Lincolnshire !