Whose Canberra?

[scroggs]

Originally Posted by scorpion63

The Canberra in question was WK163 it was flown at Warton and Salmesbury by Andy Rake with me in the back making sure he didn't touch anything he shouldn't....

Our first outing of the season was to Waddington on 30 June with Dave Piper and me carrying out the annual airtest on the way

I didn't know Andy was involved too. Must be getting too much time off!

[hobie]

There are a few nice photo's of WK163 recently posted on A.net that might be worth viewing ....

http://www.airliners.net/search/phot...nct_entry=true

[airsound]

Originally Posted by Beeayeate

Ah, so you know of the mythical B(I)8. Good one. A cranberrie not usually recalled by most folk.
Got absolutely no idea what a 'Comet Egg' is, do tell. Don't think our Comet on 51 Sqn carried one, mostly crisps and sausage rolls.
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Well...... sorry about a spot of thread creep, btw, but when a Comet of 216 (the shiniest of the Shiny Fleet) had to nightstop at the charming El Adem, the crew (and, I think, V-Force crews) were entitled to Eggs for Brekky. The rest of us scallies (Hastings and the like) were not so entitled. So, natch, it became a matter of honour to find some way of getting one's eatin irons into the aforetomentioned Eggs.

I recall an even better occasion when a particularly crafty AQM (that's what we used to call loadies) managed to get into the VIP store. So as we thundered across the Empty Quarter en route to Khartoum in our 4-engined triumph of Handley Page engineering (should that be Humbly Pudge?), this Q produced..... waitforrit waitforrit...... Caviar Sandwiches. I well remember the Sig (yes we had those as well) leaning round his HF set and shouting "Ayoop Q - I fancy another of they caviar butties - fanbloodytastic....."

airsound

[Rigex]

B(I)8

Not so mythical or exclusive as the B(I)6