Looking on the web, it seems India still has 8 operational Canberras in a support role

http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Units/Fleet.html

I could have sworn they still has some banner towing ( FRADU style? ) Hunters too….

Excellent news.

Just pondering the fact people are querying the fitment of ground use only legs. If the rest of the system is intact and ready for testing, why not – it means you can crack most of the undercarriage functionals early, and just do independants and funcs on the fitted flight legs at a later date.

I’ve done similar – even temp fitted a wing so I can jack a jet and get the legs off once………….

The Meteor Flight website has a full image at:

http://www.meteorflight.com/index.html?survivors_ukdisplay.htm

God – what did you do to your Hallam! PINK……..

They are quite young airframes

In one of my books – I forget which, but may be an Ian Black one, he was coming up behind a target tug Sea Vixen one day and decided ‘mix it’, only to be rudely shocked by the manoeuverability of this old machine.

Must dig the article out – I can’t remember whether he was in a Lightning, F4 or F3!

Of modern RAF types, the ground attack aircraft suffer quite badly. Not sure about Tornado, but Jaguar has lost nearly a third of the production run – last time I worked it out some 60 plus from 202 built. 450 kts @ 250′ doesn’t leave much time to diagnose a snag!