Avro Shackleton
Posted: 12 Nov 2015, 20:10
The part about a requirement to catapult launch resulting in a strong floor design is interesting.
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Roger. QC slipping.... Corrected.bobp wrote:You have made a slight spelling mistake with the thread title. It should read Shackleton. Interesting video.
.RetroSicotte wrote:"Not so much an airplane as a thousand rivets flying in close formation."
My father has a way with words about planes sometimes. :p
That's the one we were looking at. She's a little better now, they've got her in a separate sheltered hall for work, so things bode well. (She's currently sitting with a Eurofighter and a Valiant)Little J wrote:Don't go and see the one at Duxford, the last time I was there (admittedly a couple of years ago), she looked in a right state
It was only in the last couple years I started going to airshows and museums with him, so not so much my childhood. (Although he did get me Airfix Spitfires!) His other one I always remember was on the Jaguar, in the same 'formula' as the Shackleton quote:GastonGlocker wrote:.RetroSicotte wrote:"Not so much an airplane as a thousand rivets flying in close formation."
My father has a way with words about planes sometimes. :p
Elegantly put.
I imagine your childhood had some interesting stories.
How to solve a serious ecological crisis? Use the Avro Lancaster's grandson, the venerable Avro Shackleton, to get the job done! This is exactly what the South Africans did in 1971.