33084 B-57 SINGLE ENGINE LANDING - B57 Canberra Aircraft Landing and Crash Landing
A confidential film made by the Glenn L. Martin Company, this movie shows emergency landing procedures for a B-57 Canberra aircraft. In one instance, the pilot makes a successful landing but in another he does not, with fatal results. The Martin B-57 Canberra was a United States-built, twin jet engine tactical bomber and reconnaissance aircraft, which entered service with the United States Air Force (USAF) in 1953. The B-57 was initially a version of the English Electric Canberra built under licence. However, the Glenn L. Martin Company significantly modified the design and produced several unique variants. The last Canberra retired in 1983. The last two remaining flight worthy WB-57Fs are technically assigned to the NASA Johnson Space Center at Ellington Field, Houston, Texas as high altitude scientific research aircraft, but are also used in a testing and war-fighting capability in both the U.S. and Middle East, specifically Afghanistan.