Comments by "Don Jones" (@donjones4719) on "The Westland Welkin; Whirlwind’s High Flying Sibling" video.

  1. Nice to see more ancestry for the English Electric Canberra - a version of which is still in service with NASA. The Welkin's designer did good work. The Canberra was license-built by Martin Aircraft in the US. A version was developed as a reconnaissance aircraft, the WB-57F. This has a very wide wingspan. Three have been used by NASA for years for a range of duties and are now used for photographing high-priority launches such as crewed spacecraft and their reentries. Its military service life was extended into at least 2011. The Air Force borrowed one from NASA to test a new sensor suite over Afghanistan.
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  2. Yup, the WB-57, originally built under license by Martin.
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  3.  @hughgordon6435  Definitely.
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