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The Royal Air Force Canberra aircraft
aviation art prints. Robert Taylor Canberra aviation
prints. Robert Taylor Canberra aircraft aviation
prints. Full range of Canberra signed limited edition art prints by Aviation artist Robert Taylor.
published by The Military Gallery and available from Cranston Fine Arts.
Look out for the two print promotional packages available at great
discounts.
The Canberra is still in service today and is probably the longest
serving operational military aircraft ever, worldwide, likely to achieve
an incredible 50 years in 2001. First flown in 1949, it became Britain's
first jet bomber, entering the Royal Air Force as the B2 with 101 squadron
at Binbrook in 1951. Canberra saw action in Malaya against terrorists in
1955 and again in the Suez crisis of 1956. The versatility of the basic
airframe is proved by its adoption for training, electronic counter
measures, target towing, photo reconnaissance and intruder operations, in
addition to the normal bombing role for which it was designed. Depicted in
the painting is a B2 in the early black and grey colour scheme which it
carried when introduced. In production for 10 years, 678 British-built
Canberras were completed, plus a further 451 license-built in Australia
and America.
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| Canberras Over Cambridgeshire by Robert Taylor. Undeterred by Friday 13th, Wing Commander Beamont took off that day in May 1949, in the Canberra prototype. So accomplished was this new jet bomber that by the end of the 1950s, no fewer than 41 R.A.F. Squadrons were equipped with the Canberra, and the training of crews in another 16 countries had begun. Robert Taylors painting, shows the aircraft during a formation training sortie, rushing over the fenlands of Cambridgeshire, England, preparing to land at its R.A.F. Wyton base. Signed limited edition of 1000 prints. Paper size 33 inches x 24 inches (84cm x 64cm). Price £200.00 Signed by Wing Commander Roland Bee Beamont CBE DSO DFC DL. ITEM CODE DHM2127 |
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