Beautiful? The Canberra?
Asymmetric deathtrap more like!
To my generation of aspiring aspiring hole in the sky punchers it was THE posting you did not want after Valley. We hankered after the shiny new Phantoms, Buccaneers or Harriers. The odd weirdo wanted Lightnings, but who wants to spend 20 minutes with your face glued to a rubber visor for a living? No, we wanted the new breed, anything but that jet engined Blenheim that was amazingly still in service as a front line bomber facing Mig 19's, 21's, SAM 2's and numerous other nasties. That would have been like Battles facing ME109's and Flak 88's all over again. ANYTHING but the V Force of course...