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The RB-57D was built strictly as a high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft. It originated in a December 1952 USAF study funded by the Wright Air Development Center for a turbojet-powered special reconnaissance aircraft with a radius of 2,000 nautical miles (3,700 km; 2,300 mi) that could operate at altitudes of 65,000 feet (20,000 m).
The RB-57F was the result of an early-1960s program to produce a virtually new high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft out of the B-57. 21 produced. Developed from some RB-57As, RB-57Bs, and RB-57Ds in 1963 with newer engines and wider wings. Used for strategic reconnaissance. Transferred to Air Weather Service as WB-57Fs, 1968
RB-57D. 53-3982 - National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio. This RB-57D is one of the 13 photoreconnaissance RB-57Ds. Painted as it appeared in the late 1950s while it served in the 4080th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, 4025th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron (L), it went on display in 2004. [76]
The prototype RB-57Fs incorporated many major changes from the RB-57D, the most obvious of which was an enlarged computer-designed wing to enable it to operate at extreme altitudes. The wing had a span of more than 122 feet (37 m), which was 16 feet (4.9 m) longer than the RB-57D and nearly twice the length of the B-57B fuselage on which it was ...
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; Edit; View history; ... Martin B-57 Canberra; Martin RB-57D Canberra; Martin/General Dynamics RB-57F ...
RB-57A-1 reconnaissance aircraft, Wiesbaden AB, 1955. The 7407th Support Squadron performed airborne photo surveillance. They used Martin RB-57A Canberras, then RB-57D, and finally RB-57F Canberra aircraft at Rhein-Main.
While the shooting down of Francis Gary Powers' U-2 in 1960 is the first publicized success for the S-75, the first aircraft shot down by the S-75 was a Taiwanese Martin RB-57D Canberra high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft. The aircraft was hit by a Chinese-operated S-75 site near Beijing on October 7, 1959. [4]
RB-57D collecting data during nuclear weapons test. ... Martin RB-57D Canberra, 1955 – 1956; Boeing EB-47 Stratojet, 1957 – 1965 ... Office of Air Force History.