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Canberra (/ˈkænbrə/ or /ˈkænbərə/) is the capital city of Australia. With a population of 381,488, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), 280 km (170 mi) south-west of Sydney, and 660 km (410 mi) north-east of Melbourne. A resident of Canberra is known as a "Canberran".
The site of Canberra was selected for the location of the nation's capital in 1908 as a compromise between rivals Sydney and Melbourne, Australia's two largest cities. It is unusual among Australian cities, being an entirely planned city outside of any state, similar to Washington, D.C. in the United States or Brasília in Brazil. Following an international contest for the city's design, a blueprint by the Chicago architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin was selected and construction commenced in 1913. The Griffins' plan featured geometric motifs such as circles, hexagons and triangles, and was centred on axes aligned with significant topographical landmarks in the Australian Capital Territory.
Canberra is the capital city of Australia. It may also refer to:
This is a list of craters on Mars. There are hundreds of thousands of impact craters on Mars, but only some of them have names. This list here only contains named Martian craters starting with the letter A – G (see also lists for H – N and O – Z).
Large Martian craters (greater than 60 km in diameter) are named after famous scientists and science fiction authors; smaller ones (less than 60 km in diameter) get their names from towns on Earth. Craters cannot be named for living people, and small crater names are not intended to be commemorative - that is, a small crater isn't actually named after a specific town on Earth, but rather its name comes at random from a pool of terrestrial place names, with some exceptions made for craters near landing sites. Latitude and longitude are given as planetographic coordinates with west longitude.
In 1940, as the war was ramping up, the UK was suddenly very hungry for aircraft, and needed as many of them as possible as quickly as possible. In order to maximize the output and strengthen the Royal Air Force, the government decided to employ secondary manufacturers to produce time-tested designs via licensed manufacturing arrangements. One of the companies employed by the Air Ministry was English Electric: it didn’t make any contemporary designs but at the very least wasn’t completely new to the aircraft business. Subtitles are available in the following languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Polish, Turkish, Chinese, Portuguese. 🔘 Site: http://warthunder.com/ 🔘 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/warthunder 🔘 Telegram: https://t.me/warthunder 🔘 Twitter: http://twitter.com/warthunde...
Check out our excellent merchandise store available here; https://teespring.com/en-GB/stores/mi... The English Electric Canberra is a British first-generation jet-powered medium bomber. It was developed by English Electric during the mid-to-late 1940s in response to a 1944 Air Ministry requirement for a successor to the wartime de Havilland Mosquito. Among the performance requirements for the type was an outstanding high-altitude bombing capability and high speed. These were partly accomplished by making use of newly developed jet propulsion technology. When the Canberra was introduced to service with the Royal Air Force (RAF), the type's first operator, in May 1951, it became the service's first jet-powered bomber. In February 1951, a Canberra set another world record when it became ...
The Vulcan is well known for its howl sound, but the Canberra can sometimes produce a howl from its jet engines on a fast flypast, on a side note NASA still uses a variant of the Canberra jet.
In August 1953, a British Canberra aircraft, carefully modified, took off on a secret mission sanctioned by Winston Churchill from a US base in West Germany to fly to the Soviet Union's Area 51, Kasputin Yar near Stalingrad. Officially denied today, find out about this most secret joint UK-US spy mission. Check out my latest book, The Bridge Busters: The First Dambusters and the Race to Save Britain https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bridge-Busters-First-Dambusters-Britain-ebook/dp/B07RMJSPKQ/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=mark+felton&qid=1558033884&s=gateway&sr=8-3 Help support my channel - see below for details: https://www.paypal.me/markfeltonproduction https://www.patreon.com/markfeltonproductions Thumbnail: Rob Schleiffert
Royal Australian Air Force Air Chief Marshal (Retired) and former Chief of Defence Force Mark "Binny" Binskin who is now a reservist details how the Canberra was restored to flying condition and what its like to fly the Bomber. RAAF 100 Squadron is the heritage unit for the RAAF and after a painstakingly long 12 years the Canberra which is based at Temora in New South Wales was returned to the air by a dedicated group of ex RAAF maintainers and pilots. We briefly chat with Binny as he details what took place for this majestic aircraft to return to the Australian skies. #RAAF #australia #aviation
The B-57 is a license-built version of the British English Electric Canberra, manufactured by the Glenn L. Martin Company. The twin-engined tactical bomber and reconnaissance aircraft that entered service with the United States Air Force (USAF) in 1953. Initial Martin-built models were virtually identical to their British-built twinjet counterparts; Martin later modified the design to incorporate larger quantities of US-sourced components and produced the aircraft in several different variants. The B-57 Canberra holds the distinction of being the first jet bomber in U.S. service to drop bombs during combat. The Canberra was used extensively during the Vietnam War in a bombing capacity; dedicated versions of the type were also produced and served as high-altitude aerial reconnaissance pla...
After the Korean War began in 1950, the U.S. Air Force looked for a jet-powered medium bomber to quickly replace the aging, propeller-driven Douglas B-26 Invader. In March 1951 the USAF contracted with Martin to build the British Canberra in the United States under license. The Martin-built B-57 made its first flight in July 1953, and when production ended in 1959, a total of 403 Canberras had been produced for the USAF. In 1965 the USAF sent two B-57B squadrons to South Vietnam. Until the last B-57B departed in November 1969, the 8th and 13th Bomb Squadrons flew many different types of missions, including close air support and night interdiction, in all combat areas in Southeast Asia. The aircraft on display was assigned to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, as a test aircraft in th...
Upon entering service on 25 May 1951, the English Electric Canberra became the Royal Air Force's first jet-powered bomber. Essentially, the English Electric Canberra is an all-metal, semi-monocoque construction with a canti-levered wing and a wooden vertical stabiliser. The British aircraft had a length of 65 ft 6 in, a wingspan of 64 ft, a height of 15 ft 8 in, an empty weight of 21,650 lb, and a maximum take-off weight of 55,000 lb. Join as a member to help the channel grow further: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdW0Ug_lrQsUAkwZCs8aIgQ/join Would you like to give me a cup of coffee? A small donation like a cup of coffee that I have enough fuel to keep producing great content! Paypal account: https://www.paypal.me/dungtransport Become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dungtranmil...
A Link Airways Saab 340 B suffered yet another in air emergency on Thursday 21 March when it returned to Canberra on one engine. Someone had left an engine cowling unsecured. With the starboard engine out of action the pilot declared PAN PAN over the airwaves. The fire engines rolled and waited. All this happened while hundreds of enthusiasts were patiently waiting for a pair of Super Hornets to leave the Royal Australian Air Force base on the other side of the runway. The pilot handled the situation deftly and got the passengers back on the ground without incident. But when will Link's luck run out? #aviation #aviationhistory #canberraairport #canberraairport #linkairways #returntobase #aviationaccident #aviationincident #saab340 #canberra
English Electric Canberra B.2 bomber flying at the 2024 Airshows Downunder Shellharbour. Wings over Illawarra airshow. Captured in 4K 60fps Ultra HD. Based at the Temora Aviation Museum in NSW, Australia. https://aviationmuseum.com.au/english-electric-canberra/ Lockheed Super Constellation flying: https://youtu.be/yG2ATvi1_j4 Southern Cross II Fokker Trimotor flying: https://youtu.be/EdW5ArNHgjo?si=GXYY3dsau3cFpz_U TAA Douglas DC-3 flying: https://youtu.be/w-YUrX6erKs
Canberra (/ˈkænbrə/ or /ˈkænbərə/) is the capital city of Australia. With a population of 381,488, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), 280 km (170 mi) south-west of Sydney, and 660 km (410 mi) north-east of Melbourne. A resident of Canberra is known as a "Canberran".
The site of Canberra was selected for the location of the nation's capital in 1908 as a compromise between rivals Sydney and Melbourne, Australia's two largest cities. It is unusual among Australian cities, being an entirely planned city outside of any state, similar to Washington, D.C. in the United States or Brasília in Brazil. Following an international contest for the city's design, a blueprint by the Chicago architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin was selected and construction commenced in 1913. The Griffins' plan featured geometric motifs such as circles, hexagons and triangles, and was centred on axes aligned with significant topographical landmarks in the Australian Capital Territory.