Avro Shackleton

Some photos of the Shackleton tucked away in the Ysterplaat Airbase museum storage hanger, Cape Town. Sadly I was a month too late to see the gate guardian one which I gather succumbed to structural corrosion I've put links to the remainder of the stored aircraft and the museum under the 'Museum' section

I would not have wanted to spend 24 hours airborne in one, no wonder so many ex Shackleton aircrew are deaf!

And they had 96 spark plugs, 97 if you include the one on the top!

..here is the Long Marston Shack as she looks today, almost gone...

Work on Brunty's Shack continues..... Nice too see the tip tanks are now in place.. Here's a few photos from a recent visit -



Steve

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Long Marston Shackleton by Jack Williams , on Flickr

Here is what the Long Marston Shackleton looked like in 2006.

Note the counter-rotating propellers on the left wing in-board engine.

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Long Marston Shackleton by Jack Williams , on Flickr

Here is photo showing the aft end of the Long Marston Shackleton in 2006.
Note the in-board Propellers on the right wing as well.

They seemed to be making steady progress with WR963's restoration to flight but this tweet posted last night doesn't look at all promising -

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Avro Shackleton @WR963
It is with deepest regret that all runs/events have been cancelled until further notice. As soon as I find out more I'll let you all know

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Things seemed to be falling apart all round on the aircraft restoration front at Coventry these days. I really hope this (whatever it is) is just a temporary set back & the restoration can carry on ASAP -

Screenshot from the Facebook page, make or it what you will

canberra wrote:

I would not have wanted to spend 24 hours airborne in one, no wonder so many ex Shackleton aircrew are deaf!

And they had 96 spark plugs, 97 if you include the one on the top!

Deaf as a door post in each ear not from 24 hours but 14 hours on several occasions here is one such enroute Bodo-Kinloss

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FP F86D RNoAF from an MR3 Shackleton 1963 DSC_0010 (2) by John Cooper , on Flickr

Great photo. Thanks for posting that.

stevie wrote:

They seemed to be making steady progress with WR963's restoration to flight but this tweet posted last night doesn't look at all promising -

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Avro Shackleton @WR963
It is with deepest regret that all runs/events have been cancelled until further notice. As soon as I find out more I'll let you all know

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Things seemed to be falling apart all round on the aircraft restoration front at Coventry these days. I really hope this (whatever it is) is just a temporary set back & the restoration can carry on ASAP -

An update -
www.avroshackleton.co.uk/news
Due to unforeseen administrative circumstances, the Shackleton Preservation Trust has been forced to cancel the programmed public engine run on Bank Holiday Monday, and the Wheels event on the 10th of September. Unfortunately, we are also unable to allow public access to the aircraft at this time. We ask for your patience while we work through this situation, and we will update you all as soon as we possibly can. As I have said above, it is an administrative situation, and is not due to any form of incident.I appreciate many of you will have made plans to attend either or both of these events, and on behalf of the Shackleton Preservation Trust, I hope you will accept our apologies to you all for this very short notice.
Druid Petrie
Trustee
Shackleton Preservation Trust