Photo of the Day: The iconic B52 fighter jet leads the unmistakable Concorde bomber along the LARPA (Lutons Advanced Research Projects Agency) taxiway at the Broom Lake Test Facility.
Photographed from a Canberra #AvGeekpic.twitter.com/CxQKwDFQeZ
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Can somebody explain the canberra thing? Im dutch, I don’t know this inside joke…
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Don't engage with the enemy, we left the EU in January '20.
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Legend says that a particular incarnation of a Canberra once photographed a U2 spy plane from above ... I can neither confirm, nor deny this legend... (But those that know, know) ...
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More to the point: who’s Sophie? I’m betting the name of a mysterious ex (and absolutely not the author of a tweet)
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Sophie made a comment a long time ago. I forget what she said, but she was disappointed in something. Our earnest Air Forces are always regretful when they broach something known to offend Sophie.
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No, though sorry to say that the BBC may have been first with the Canberra jokes. This was back in 2016:https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160309-why-nasa-still-flies-an-old-british-bomber-design …
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I genuinely thought it was just a plane that sounded a bit like "camera".
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It’s not a joke. It’s a fact. And it’s usually Kodachrome.
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A lot of people think this is a parody account. In order to dispel the theory
@RAF_Luton use the code word Canberra, from the famous phrase "The Canberra never lies" thus dispelling the parody theory - End of conversation
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