Yup.. Just to stop LesB moaning about a lack of Cranberries again..!

Such a delight it’ll be to see it too. It’s the utmost best PR.9 cockpit owned by anybody called Ross I’ve ever seen!!

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Being printed on card as you say (or maybe mounted on card), I consider these photos would have been meant to be pinned up on a display board at some exhibition or presentation or the like – not necessarily public. Also, there looks to be pinholes in he corners of some of them.

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Main reason though was because they were just too slow with any load on board.

The Belfs used to stage through RAF Gan when I was out there. Recall one time a westbound Belf took off for the UK routed via Muharraq, Cyprus to BZ. About 3/4 hr later a westbound Herc left on the same route. Herc made it to Muharraq before the Belf and, we were told, was en-route to BZ over France while the Belf was just landing at Akrotiri. They were just too slow.

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Hi Mania
Global has the best idea, it’s what I did when I first got my 300D a couple of years back. Take many pics of the same subject, say your back garden or street scene or similar. Take all pix from the same viewpoint but with a different setting for each.

I set up on a tripod in the garden and tried pics at all the various white balance modes first. Then different ISOs, Then different shoot modes – P, TV, AV, etc. All with each lens in turn. Took it off tripod tried the same series but hand-held (to check my built-in camera shake tolerence).

Took camera indoors. Another series using the flash (built-in) and then Canon attachable flash-gun. Tried all the settings with all my lenses, etc. As with Global, took notes and compared later on-screen. Got to know what the kit would do at different settings with different lenses then, out onto a road. Stacks of images of cars going past to see how my panning was and what shutter speed/aperture combi worked best for me. Then down to East Midlands Airport to run a series on aircraft – all lenses, all settings – took notes.

All this took time, about a week or so (I’m retired), but the exercise gave me an appreciation of what the camera would do in my hands. After that it was just application of that knowledge, modifying it as needed and in light of later results. But at least I knew what I was modifying and why!

You can’t really just use settings that others use, you really have to work out what you can do with your kit. No good trying to run before you can walk.

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Really like these Rob, great images, very moody and atmospheric.

Good one squire.

The BI 8’s primary role was to deliver bombs but a gun pack was fitted in the bomb bay for ground attack purposes hence the flip down trigger

http://www.classicaircraft.co.uk/canberra_2.htm

This tells you a bit about it, I have compared the one on ebay with the one on the complete column I have and it is absolutely identical in every respect, even down to the number, except mine is somewhat scruffier:mad:

The B(I)8 also had a tactical nuclear role which was considered ‘primary’.

Regarding the link given by JunkC. This leads to an essay by Bill Yates, a 14 Sqn Navigator on 8s. His essay is readable but wrong in certain aspects. Firstly, his mention of ‘three’ sqns disregarding No 3 Sqn at Geilenkirchen (ironically just a few miles down the road from Wildenrath). These were the ‘Strike Sqns’ – 3 Sqn (Geilenkirchen), 14 Sqn (Wildentrath), 16 Sqn (Laarbruch) and 213 Sqn (B(I)6s at Bruggen).

His main error though is his description of the gun-pack fitting. The gun-pack was not fitted at the front of the bomb bay, ’twas at the rear of both B(I)8 and B(I)6 Canberras. A couple of years back I mailed the site about the above to no avail as it could lead people astray (especially modellers).

If you like to see B(I)8s, go here to my B(I)8 Galleries. I’m trying to get a pic of every B(I)8 produced. Have 45 out of 83 already.

On to FMk6John’s post.
A 1992 date for recon of a grip that went out of RAF service twenty years previously? Mmmm . . .I went, and again – Mmm. . . Could it be that the grip is for/from an foreign owned Canberra? This is now a definite possible since India and Peru still have active 8s. Didn’t actually think of JohnnyForeigner back up the thread, but it now seems a more apt explantion.

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Backing off here . . .

OK. There seems to be a consensus that the grip is for a B(I)8 (or B(I)6) so I’ll have to go with that I guess. Still a wee bit of doubt in my mind though as, although it seems to fit the bill I personally don’t recall the grip-trigger housed on the front of the horn. Can’t think of what that would have been for.

Thing that I hesitated over was the large box-like housing just below the head, don’t recall any such thing but then memory plays strange tricks – I mean, this time last week I could’ve sworn it was Friday! But, I’ve now pretty much convinced myself (with your help) that this really is the housing for the flap-covered elevator trim switch. Then on top, the R/T button, trigger release safety flap and safety-guarded pylon bombs/RP release button. But the grip trigger . . . ? Possibly it’s a mod that came in after I left the 8s. And I’ve no pics showing it or information about it, not even in the B(I)8 Pilots’ Notes.

So, as the whole subject sinks slowly into the sunset with four-part harmony and in living colour, I shall wander off muttering . . . that way ——>

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