Another resent home made decaling project that would never have been possible for me without the magic of home made decals.
The background to the aircraft is as follows.
The aircraft were used for satellite calibration in the early sixties, originally I only had a top side photo of the RB.57D on the right in the second photo but I eventually received more photo via a friend who was in contact with the son of one of the pilots involved. You can see more info on the builds at. http://www.britmodel...there-were-two/ and on my site http://ipmscanberras...h-planes-rb-57d
The way it worked was the satellite cameras were fitted in a capsule suspended from a weather balloon which would fly up to the upper atmosphere,. The Canberra's with there very good high altitude performance and stability would fly high above the New Mexico Desert well above much of, if not all the atmospheric pollution, thus giving the clearest possible image. The test patterns were to test the optical quality of the camera lenses, any distortion could be noted and accounted for in subsequent photographs take by the system. They were also for testing the quality of the photographic film emulsion.
John