Scott Manley | Why NASA Relies On A 1950's Aircraft Design To Track 21st Century Spacecraft @scottmanley | Uploaded 10 months ago | Updated 1 day ago
Parked at an uncontrolled rural airfield in Northern California a 70 year old British Jet Bomber which was once used to carry experiments for NASA. The British Canberra design was licensed by the USA to make the B-57 which in turn evolved into the WB-57F - NASA's high flying camera platform.

There's a pair of Canberra's at a small rural airport in California which once

Follow or even support the restoration project at https://www.facebook.com/Canberrausa

Paper by High Altitude Mapping Missions, Inc. pitching the capabilities:
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1559587


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