discussion Avro Shackleton Mr.2

[wonwinglo]

Heavily converted from a Frog kit,the Shackleton Mr.2 original form as a tail dragger.

 

[simontie]

Nice like it a lot i have the avro but the vac pack one, and the old mans marking from 8 squadron no 57 Florence. Hope to get it started shortly (this year) as a child of the seventies living on the east coast of Scotland the rumble of the four griffins would light up my day it meant dad would be home for tea!!!funny how things change"....

 

[colin m]

Looks nice. But if you really love your Shack's, the Latest Revell one comes highly recommended - well by me anyway.

 

[colin m]

four merlins

At the risk of sounding like a rivet counter, the engines are Griffon's. Still a very nice sound. I saw a Shackleton at an air show when I was a kid. That sound will never leave me.

 

[simontie]

Yes my apologies you are absolutely right RR griffins, nothing wrong with counting rivets i do regularly..... even watching videos on you tube they still make the hair on the back of my neck stand up

 

[simontie]

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[simontie]

Last seen at the end of the runway Cyprus being stripped for parts sad but thats the way it is

 

[flyjoe180]

I thought all Shackletons had conventional landing gear but read that the MR.3 had tricycle gear.

 

[wonwinglo]

I thought all Shackletons had conventional landing gear but read that the MR.3 had tricycle gear.

Early Shackletons were really upgraded Lancaster's for coastal work with conventional undercarriages,the tricycles came in much later.