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The Glenn L. Martin Company built Canberras under license from English Electric, and from the B-57B model they incorporated a modified nose with the distinctive fighter-style tandem cockpit arrangement.
B-57E 55-4244 was delivered to the USAF in September 1956, and was subsequently converted to an EB-57E electronic aggressor variant. B-57's were powered by Curtiss-Wright J65 engines, which were license-built versions of the Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire.
On display at the SAC Museum at Ashland, near Omaha, Nebraska.
McDonnell XF-85 Goblin 46-0524 "parasite fighter" displayed on its ground handing trestle beneath the wing of a Convair B-36J bomber at the SAC Museum, near Omaha Nebraska.
This strange looking little aircraft was conceived at the end of WW2 to be carried in the bomb bay of the huge B-36 and launched for defence against enemy fighters, following which it would be recovered. The retractable hook ahead of the cockpit was used to connect with a trapeze extended from the belly of the bomber. Two prototypes were evaluated with an EB-29, but the programme was cancelled as the fighter didn't have the performance to match the likely hostile interceptors they would face, and significant difficulties were encountered in docking.