Avro Shackleton

I popped up to Brunty this morning to meet up with fellow AiXer burleysway & also to get a few shots of WR974 during her rebuild. She certainly isn't looking her best at the moment as should be expected but the team are making good progress -



Steve

A few bits of Shackleton news-

Apparently the future plan for Shackleton WR974 at Brunty is to eventually move her to Woodford & display her alongside Vulcan XM603 at the AVRO Heritage Museum.

plus.. Shackleton WR963'S future is safe despite the really sad recent closure of Classic Air Force at Coventry. Hopefully the restoration will continue to go from strength to strength in 2016.

If they move a Shack from Brunty to Woodford then why not move the Shack thats in the Manchester museum (owned by the RAF museum dont forget!) to either Cosford or Hendon?????

Has anyone else noticed that the Airfix box art for their new kit of the Shackleton shows in the background present day Gibraltar rather than as it was when the aircraft was based there?

Graham

Or should we be really controversial & shout Victor to the sky as we know it can lift off.

Chris wrote:

Or should we be really controversial & shout Victor to the sky as we know it can lift off.

No thanks Chris, it was scary enough last time . Would be awesome though!

Have you read the Shackleton thread on key Steve?
One of the regulars has departed due to internal bolitics.

No mate, the only thing I've read on KEY forums lately was the Wymeswold thread.

RichW_82 has moved on.

Bugger, I was going to PM him & ask him to post up an update on the aircrafts latest progress on here for us. Not a lot of point now.