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An edition
commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the first flight of
the Canberra.
Undeterred by 'Friday 13th', Wing
Commander Beamont took off that day in May 1949, in the
Canberra prototype. So accomplished was this new jet bomber
that by the end of the 1950's, no fewer than 41 R.A.F.
Squadrons were equipped with the Canberra, and the training
of crews in another 16 countries had begun. Robert Taylor's
painting, shows the aircraft during a formation training
sortie; rushing over the fenlands of Cambridgeshire,
England, preparing to land at its R.A.F. Wyton base.
Each
print is individually signed by the artist and wartime
fighter leader Wing commander Roalnd Beamont. |
