Martin B-57

Shame – especially as it was a very rare example of a non-indigenous type built in the USA for the US Military.

Roger Smith.

Thanks for the replies, I was just curious.

Paul

Several in Pakistan, but that’s not the question.

Laurence

There are no B-57’s preserved in the UK to the best of my knowledge, and fairly sure none in Europe either.

The place to ask the question is here:

http://canberratalk.conforums.com

Can we expect one then…? 😉

Cannot recall any in Europe.

Hi… No pix but just a brief comment.
I was at Kimpo Apt in Korea, can’t remember exact date, but was flying glass nose 26 photo plane. A B-57 came in and was there for most of a day (I believe for some sort of maintenance) but they had so much security on it we couldn’t get close enough to see anything. Rumor had it they had a large camera in the bomb bay with a 100 inch lens on it and that they would hit the DMZ wide open and make a wide arc, with the plane banked, then book out before the NK jets could get up,and were able to see all of North Korea. Was just a rumor but sounded possible.
A fun war. We were something like 3 minutes from their jet base and flying planes redlined at 320 mph. They were behind a small mountain christened by the guys as the Witches Tit so our radar didn’t see them until they were well off the ground

thanks for the info guys, keep it up! For the European consortium, which do you all prefer side by side crew arrangement or tandem? B-24 Driver, did you say you guys were flying 26’s out of Korea? was this before they rebuilt some into B-26K Counter Invader?

Hi… No pix but just a brief comment.
I was at Kimpo Apt in Korea, can’t remember exact date, but was flying glass nose 26 photo plane. A B-57 came in and was there for most of a day (I believe for some sort of maintenance) but they had so much security on it we couldn’t get close enough to see anything. Rumor had it they had a large camera in the bomb bay with a 100 inch lens on it and that they would hit the DMZ wide open and make a wide arc, with the plane banked, then book out before the NK jets could get up,and were able to see all of North Korea. Was just a rumor but sounded possible.
A fun war. We were something like 3 minutes from their jet base and flying planes redlined at 320 mph. They were behind a small mountain christened by the guys as the Witches Tit so our radar didn’t see them until they were well off the ground

B-57 Bombers….

GOOD

thanks for the pics guys, keep posting. BTW what do you think of the B-57 good or bad? 😎

Some pics…they’re not very rare.

Here are some…

Check out the NMUSAF web site….