No aircraft has completely achieved the aim of being 'all things to all men', but the English Electric Canberra has come closer than most. Equipping at one time or another some 40 RAF squadrons and exported to 14 overseas air arms, perhaps the crowning achievement was its adoption by the US Air Force as the Martin B-57. This is not the place to retell the Canberra's story or to relive its greatest moments. My quest here is to resolve an altogether smaller — and surely less significant — point of detail.
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