Great photo - but of a Canberra T.17, not a B2... Note the various radomes covering the ECM aerials. I flew over 1,000 hours on these great aircraft between Feb 1970 and Jun 1972; mostly with 360 Sqn, RAF Cottesmore. We were a 75% RAF, 25% Royal Navy squadron and exercised with the Army, the Navy and the Air Force both in and around the UK, off Cyprus, Crete, Malta etc. We also exercised with other NATO Air Forces which resulted in memorable landaways in Norway, Germany, the Netherlands etc. We would operate at varying altitudes, often low level at 2,000 ft but, I see in my logbook, I went up to 45,000 ft on my second flight during type conversion training. Take offs were always interesting because there was a "graveyard gap" during takeoff where, if you had an engine failure at that point, you could be too fast to stop on the runway yet not fast enough to continue takeoff on the remaining engine... I had several engine failures - none in the "graveyard gap" fortunately. Once I had an engine fail while in close formation in cloud at 2,000 ft which was interesting. On one occasion, the ASI (air speed indicator) failed and I had to fly a "pairs GCA" (Ground Controlled Approach) with another Canberra down to 200 ft in cloud. Just about every flight terminated in a "run in and break" manoevre which was always good fun. June 01, 2008