Loading…
https://d3e1m60ptf1oym.cloudfront.net/7d3e2223-655f-4e4f-9dba-75bd0e8e7366/Suez_Canberra_PR7_Gary_Eason_xgaplus.jpghttps://www.flightartworks.com/-/portfolio/aviation/jet-age/-/medias/7d3e2223-655f-4e4f-9dba-75bd0e8e7366/pricehttps://www.flightartworks.com/-/portfolio/aviation/jet-age/-/medias/7d3e2223-655f-4e4f-9dba-75bd0e8e7366/price
Suez Canberra PR7 shoot down BW version
The last time that the RAF lost an aircraft as a result of an air-to-air engagement in combat was the shooting down of a Cyprus-based English Electric Canberra PR 7, WH799 of 58 Squadron, by Syrian air force Gloster Meteor F8 fighters on the Syria-Lebanon border during the Suez Crisis of 1956.
This is the black and white version of a depiction that was commissioned for the RAF Memorial Flight Club magazine to mark the 60th anniversary of the encounter during which the navigator, 26-year-old Flying Officer Roy Urquhart-Pullen, was killed.
There is more in my blog article about this: https://www.aerialcombat.co.uk/2016/08/the-shooting-down-of-whisky-hotel-799.html.
© Gary Eason gary@easonmedia.com to license
Picture keywords: 58 Squadron, aerial combat, air combat, combat operations, English Electric Canberra, Gloster Meteor F8, PR 7, Roy Urquhart-Pullen, Suez Crisis, Syrian Air Force, wh799
https://d3e1m60ptf1oym.cloudfront.net/a3f8a814-53a7-442d-b5a3-34e372341aa6/Suez_Canberra_PR7_Gary_Eason-2_xgaplus.jpghttps://www.flightartworks.com/-/portfolio/aviation/jet-age/-/medias/a3f8a814-53a7-442d-b5a3-34e372341aa6/pricehttps://www.flightartworks.com/-/portfolio/aviation/jet-age/-/medias/a3f8a814-53a7-442d-b5a3-34e372341aa6/price
https://d3e1m60ptf1oym.cloudfront.net/603845d5-9acf-4aba-965a-7d367ca0ae72/Canberra_PR_7_over_the_Med_Gary_Eason_xgaplus.jpghttps://www.flightartworks.com/-/portfolio/aviation/jet-age/-/medias/603845d5-9acf-4aba-965a-7d367ca0ae72/pricehttps://www.flightartworks.com/-/portfolio/aviation/jet-age/-/medias/603845d5-9acf-4aba-965a-7d367ca0ae72/price