As a weapons controller on a USAF EC-121 (America's counterpart to the RAF Shackleton) back in the 70's, I was invited on a Shackleton that was visiting NAS Keflavik to observe an intercept training flight off the coast of Iceland back in 1978. To say that it was "educational" was an understatement... it was ****ING FUN! The view from the glass coffin was uncomfortable at first, but the view over Eastern Iceland (in the area of Hofn) was breath taking. And when I was photographing a close flyby by an F-4E of the 57th FIS off the starboard wing, and the North Yorkshire engineer OPENED THE WINDOW so I "could get a better view", I about soiled myself. And am I the only one who thinks that antenna on top looks like a spark plug? To the men of the Shackleton, and ALL of my brothers and sisters in who served in her Majesty's militaries, and now HIS majesty's (Including our Aussie, Kiwi, and Canadian brothers and sisters), America is honored to have you as our greatest allies.
Great stuff! I recently watched a Shackleton tour video (in 2 parts) where they demonstrated how one opens the side window to get a better photo! The "spark plug" is nicely explained in one of my other videos - see th-cam.com/video/bNyT0jZvuxM/w-d-xo.html and switch on subtitles for the English translation.
I remember that! The guy trying to get the apu running was smoking a tab when he did! I'm like, don't these run on ethanol or nitro Benzine?! The lanc always sounds fab but the shacks props have a unique sound
I had the priviledge of Shackletons doing early morning full power runs on the apron right next to the control tower during my time as National Service ATC at AFS Rooikop at Walvisbaai during the Angola crisis 1975-1976. While still dark those engines spewed blue torch flames from the exhausts! Then two years later as an engineering student doing vacation work at 1AD in Voortrekkerhoogte Pretoria I saw those Griffins being rebuilt as well as the test runs with abbreviated props in the engine test cell. Spectacular.
I worked at the factory this aircraft was built and seen many shackleton's vulcans latterly nimrod.s and can honestly say the power of them running on the ground at full power would literally turn you inside out good day's lol
Hi Willie. Thank you for this. Shackletons were a common sight and sound(!) here over the north east coast of Scotland. Based at Lossiemouth, they were the long serving AEW variant. Once described by an American visitor " never has so much been done by so little". I remember one morning looking out my window and here was a 'Shack', minus wings, in the scrap yard opposite our flat. A sad sight. " Sic transit Gloria mundi".
I showed this video to my father who was an apprentice aircraft mechanic in the SAAF in the 1960s. He remembers working on this exact aircraft which they called "22". The ailerons were made of textiles and would be drawn taut and then covered by several layers of resin to be able to be used and he spent many many hours making resin parts for Shackletons and Vampires! The second thing he tells me is of historical interest to all of us South Africans. On the day Dmetri Tsafendas killed Hendrik Verwoerd the entire army was placed on full alert and my father had to guard this Shackleton 22 at Ysterplaat. Instead of doing that he climbed onto the front wheel, leaned his back against the wheel strut and slept there. A few hours later he was awakened by a commotion and was able to see the police and secret service lead Tsafendas across the tarmac to a waiting jet to be flown to Pretoria. According to him, from his vantage point, Tsafendas walked by no more than twenty meters from him.
My parents lived in a top floor flat right next to Milnerton Checkers and directly under the Northern flight path to and from Ysterplaat. I will never forget the Shackletons flying so low over the building. It used to make everything shake. awesome memories
That's great but I hope nobody was injured. These beauties were so powerful, just as well the jets weren't running also! Excellent video, well caught, what a show!
In 1983 I was studying in Parow valley , on a Thursday night the Shack`s where practicing night circuits , the sound was so deafening, many a time I just gave up studying for that night. Good memories. I just loved that sound.
I used to work at BAe Hatfield in the Eighties and one of these AWACS Shackletons (maybe the last one) did a high speed fly past, over the runway. The pilot pulled up near the end of the runway and I remember watching the wings flex upwards by a good meter as the G force piled on. Griffon engines sounded fantastic, a close second behind anything with a Merlin.
In 1966 joined the RAF stationed at RAF Ballykelly N Ireland, I think there were 3 or 4 squadrons of Shackletons, one RN outfit of Ghannets, a shackleton crashed on the airfield no one was injuried, on duty one weekend when all was quiet i drove to the crash site and entered the aircraft, i explored all over the inside of the aircraft ending in the cockpit on the left side seat, i sat there looking out the front windows pulling on the controlls thinking what it would be like to be flying this machine, a lever on my right caught my attention, i moved it and my seat dropped about 6 inches, i thought i had ejected i almost shit my pants.
Lol, not surprised to see this happen with all four props at full chat. I worked for Taywood Engineering in the 1990s, we used a single 37litre V12 RR Griffon from a Shackleton AEW2, mounted in a steel cage with contra-rotating prop, to test high-rise commercial building facades!! Just one engine running at only a third of its power was mind blowing!
What exactly do you means when you say "test high-rise commercial building facades" in the same sentence as a Shackleton engine? Did you actually try and blow them over?
Willie Koorts Not blow over (that’s would have been a catastrophic design failure)! It was to test a sample of buildings exterior weatherproofing facade, by subjecting it to high-winds. The Shackleton’s engine was perfect to replicate the ‘wind-loading’ pressure tall buildings could be subject to. To be honest, as a 21 year old at the time, my focus was more to the power of the magnificent 37ltr V12!
I was there that day, I had been medically boarded a few months earlier and sadly to say, at least it did not happen upon my watch. Somehow I instinctively knew that this was going to happen, sooner that later.
Indeed! A camera microphone soon saturates! It is not so noticeable in the video, but Johan made a cellphone recording with his phone near the ground on his camera bag. This recording turned out to be the best, so I pulled it into a sound editor to clean up. When I lined it up with the video, it was amazing to see the drop in sound level, the moment the wall fell! It makes good sense if you think that suddenly a huge reflective surface for the sound disappeared!
@@SterremanWillie Absolutely! With the wall gone what was left of the palm trees would absorb the noise rather than bouncing it back. Just incredible demonstration of the power in those engines.
Thing just wants to fly. I say there’s nothing too valuable to fly, even if it’s one of a kind. Put it in the air and inspire people to be interested in aviation.
Just one problem: Show me the money! You have no idea how much I'm thinking about stealing - I mean "saving" - this aircraft before she gets sold off to some foreigners, or destroyed for scrap by the South African government...
What is the buildings behind the downed wall? Airport offices,school? That was an expensive wall to replace. Not strong enough for being in a run up area.
I happen to be visiting the guy who took the video at the moment and just asked him. The building is called "movements", which is effectively the departure and arrival area. The was has since been rebuild, but not too expensive since we do a lot of brickwork in South Africa, brick is actually cheaper than wood over here. Since the incident, they moved the engine run area elsewhere on the base, away from any buildings and walls.
True, but the difference is in the soul of the sound. Jet engines = volume only, Big piston engines = volume + soul + power. It's a sound that just makes us feel it inside.
Many years ago I watched a Harrier jump jet do a flight line display at Elvington Museum near York. A little boy was screaming at it to stop.A little boy in an adults body, me, was quietly screaming for more.And louder...As an aside I used to deliver to the East Mids airport when Channel Express were using C47/DC3's as freight haulers..
hahaha.. I did the same thing with a 767 and later a 747 years. Ago.. I also kicked up enough dust once with a 737 that a 747 had to perform a go around and change runways... the fun of high power engine ground runs....
We've been using big Excavators here in New Zealand to demolish earthquake damaged buildings ,when we could have that beast fly over and flatten them in half the time !
Wow that was shocking. I could be mistaken but isn’t this a good example of why most airports require the use of a run up pad or ground run enclosure for high power engine run ups?
@@justat1149 right, the wrong is in a different place, it had different engines, and it has a different nose, as you said. What part do you think looks like a b24?
Shelby Seelbach Honestly, if you look at it from a side on profile, it looks very similar. Also, I see a Liberator in the size/shape of the fuselage and tailplanes. The nose looks like one of the later B-24 variants with the nose turret, only said turret has been streamlined extensively. The major differences of course are the wings and engines, being lower down on the fuselage and the engines nacelles being smaller and fitted with contra-rotating props
@@justat1149 Oh, I must have missed the part where they showed the plane in profile. The tail design is similar, it has tricycle landing gear, it has four engines, other than that it looks nothing like a b24 in reality, nothing like. Just saying.
Aww c'mon, just because it's the only airworthy doesn't make it too special to fly! Special Kay flies regularly cross country, and she's the only airworthy one as well!
In flight the Shackleton was so ugly it was beautiful and the sound was just amazing, not the most comfortable to be in for long Atlantic patrols though.
Reminds me of the experimental XF-84H plane, where the propellers turned so fast, the noise would literally make the ground crews sick. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_XF-84H_Thunderscreech
@@wilkowilkins363 Gotcha. I'm Australian and understand that it's in South Africa. My comment was a friendly post-colonial ribbing about the narrator's mis-pronunciation of "Avro" @0.17... :)
Never knew that some of the Shacks were tail draggers and some were tricycle? Surely that requires major re-engineering of main undercarriage and spar arrangements to shift static centre of gravity so aircraft sits nose heavy on ground?
If you watch my other Shackleton videos, you will see they always do this when shutting down. I suspect it is to supply electrical power until everything can be switched off properly.
We had a ground crew out in 117th squadron picked off his feet and sucked into an F-16 intake as he was crossing under the it. Lucky he got hung up on the central bar but almost suffocated to death. His coat was shredded, lucky the engine was only idling. After release from hospital he was court-martialed to 30day.
Willie dis 'n miljoen rand video, ek is bewus van die een wat nog diensbaar is, weet jy hoeveel vlug ure hy oor het, ek so iets van 1 uur gehoor, op Zwartkop Valhala staan ook 'n volledige een onder dak maar sal seker nie weer vlieg nie, baie dankie vir die video
Dankie Jan. Ja, Johan het hom perfek gevang! Ek het verskillende getalle gehoor oor hoeveel vlugure Pelican 22 oor het, maar aangesien hulle haar seker nie sommer weer sal laat vlieg nie, is dit seker meer as net akademiese belang. Ek het gehoor van die een op Zwartkop, maar nie seker van haar status nie, sal bietjie vir Johan vra of hy weet. Kyk ook my ander engine-start-video (skakel aan die einde), daar word melding gemaak van een op Valhala.
Dankie ek sal kyk Willie, ek het defnitief n paar foto's van die een op Zwartkop, miskien moet ek n video saamstel van my fotos van vliegtuie daar. Ekhet gekyk en ek het 2 fotos en baie van ons lugmag se ander ou vliegtuie, sal dalk nog van die Shackleton uit krap, Tweede edit, ek het 'n kort slideshow gelaai Willie
Wonderlik! Dankie Jan, ek het jou video gesien. Baie oulik! Jy moet een Saterdag die engine run kom kyk - gewoonlik die laaste Saterdag van die maand, maar dit word partymaal gekanselleer weens verskeie logistiese redes.
I heard somewhere that the airframe is apparently still declared airworthy, but that it is too valuable to dare fly it. Not sure if this is correct though. One thing that would be a challenge is to get crew since they are getting fewer and fewer (and older and older!).
As a weapons controller on a USAF EC-121 (America's counterpart to the RAF Shackleton) back in the 70's, I was invited on a Shackleton that was visiting NAS Keflavik to observe an intercept training flight off the coast of Iceland back in 1978. To say that it was "educational" was an understatement... it was ****ING FUN! The view from the glass coffin was uncomfortable at first, but the view over Eastern Iceland (in the area of Hofn) was breath taking. And when I was photographing a close flyby by an F-4E of the 57th FIS off the starboard wing, and the North Yorkshire engineer OPENED THE WINDOW so I "could get a better view", I about soiled myself. And am I the only one who thinks that antenna on top looks like a spark plug? To the men of the Shackleton, and ALL of my brothers and sisters in who served in her Majesty's militaries, and now HIS majesty's (Including our Aussie, Kiwi, and Canadian brothers and sisters), America is honored to have you as our greatest allies.
Great stuff! I recently watched a Shackleton tour video (in 2 parts) where they demonstrated how one opens the side window to get a better photo! The "spark plug" is nicely explained in one of my other videos - see th-cam.com/video/bNyT0jZvuxM/w-d-xo.html and switch on subtitles for the English translation.
A Shackleton: 80,000 rivets vibrating in close formation. There's also an MR3 which does engine runs at Gatwick Aviation Museum in the UK.
I remember that! The guy trying to get the apu running was smoking a tab when he did! I'm like, don't these run on ethanol or nitro Benzine?!
The lanc always sounds fab but the shacks props have a unique sound
@@drd6416 They don't call Shackleton's Growlers for nothing ;)
Doesn't matter how long you have been out of the Air Force, it still bring on the goosebumps.
Fantastic video, so glad to see a Shackleton loved and cared for. May she delight the crowds for years to come.
Thanks David, much appreciated. Glad you liked the video. It is always amazing to hear the mighty roar of those huge engines!
I had the priviledge of Shackletons doing early morning full power runs on the apron right next to the control tower during my time as National Service ATC at AFS Rooikop at Walvisbaai during the Angola crisis 1975-1976. While still dark those engines spewed blue torch flames from the exhausts! Then two years later as an engineering student doing vacation work at 1AD in Voortrekkerhoogte Pretoria I saw those Griffins being rebuilt as well as the test runs with abbreviated props in the engine test cell. Spectacular.
I worked at the factory this aircraft was built and seen many shackleton's vulcans latterly nimrod.s and can honestly say the power of them running on the ground at full power would literally turn you inside out good day's lol
Shackleton Demolition Services now open for business... ;)
You could argue the Shackleton Demolition Service started in 1949, this just a re-opening. Lol.
Dankie Willie, ek het jou video baie geniet, wat 'n ongelooflike, pragtige vliegtuig!
Excellent video and commentary!
Amazing video. Look after the old girl. Good to see her alive.🇬🇧
Hi Willie. Thank you for this. Shackletons were a common sight and sound(!) here over the north east coast of Scotland. Based at Lossiemouth, they were the long serving AEW variant. Once described by an American visitor " never has so much been done by so little". I remember one morning looking out my window and here was a 'Shack', minus wings, in the scrap yard opposite our flat. A sad sight. " Sic transit Gloria mundi".
I showed this video to my father who was an apprentice aircraft mechanic in the SAAF in the 1960s. He remembers working on this exact aircraft which they called "22". The ailerons were made of textiles and would be drawn taut and then covered by several layers of resin to be able to be used and he spent many many hours making resin parts for Shackletons and Vampires! The second thing he tells me is of historical interest to all of us South Africans. On the day Dmetri Tsafendas killed Hendrik Verwoerd the entire army was placed on full alert and my father had to guard this Shackleton 22 at Ysterplaat. Instead of doing that he climbed onto the front wheel, leaned his back against the wheel strut and slept there. A few hours later he was awakened by a commotion and was able to see the police and secret service lead Tsafendas across the tarmac to a waiting jet to be flown to Pretoria. According to him, from his vantage point, Tsafendas walked by no more than twenty meters from him.
My parents lived in a top floor flat right next to Milnerton Checkers and directly under the Northern flight path to and from Ysterplaat. I will never forget the Shackletons flying so low over the building. It used to make everything shake. awesome memories
That's great but I hope nobody was injured. These beauties were so powerful, just as well the jets weren't running also! Excellent video, well caught, what a show!
In 1983 I was studying in Parow valley , on a Thursday night the Shack`s where practicing night circuits , the sound was so deafening, many a time I just gave up studying for that night. Good memories. I just loved that sound.
Lived in Bellville at the time and remember that sound very well.
Only found this video today what a brilliant catch well done 👍
I used to work at BAe Hatfield in the Eighties and one of these AWACS Shackletons (maybe the last one) did a high speed fly past, over the runway. The pilot pulled up near the end of the runway and I remember watching the wings flex upwards by a good meter as the G force piled on. Griffon engines sounded fantastic, a close second behind anything with a Merlin.
The growl climbing into a roar, with shivering power latent on the beast about to pounce! Splendid video, this
Love the sound of the 4 roller throb..
In 1966 joined the RAF stationed at RAF Ballykelly N Ireland, I think there were 3 or 4 squadrons of Shackletons, one RN outfit of Ghannets, a shackleton crashed on the airfield no one was injuried, on duty one weekend when all was quiet i drove to the crash site and entered the aircraft, i explored all over the inside of the aircraft ending in the cockpit on the left side seat, i sat there looking out the front windows pulling on the controlls thinking what it would be like to be flying this machine, a lever on my right caught my attention, i moved it and my seat dropped about 6 inches, i thought i had ejected i almost shit my pants.
Hehehe! Glad you survived to tell the tale!
Lol, not surprised to see this happen with all four props at full chat. I worked for Taywood Engineering in the 1990s, we used a single 37litre V12 RR Griffon from a Shackleton AEW2, mounted in a steel cage with contra-rotating prop, to test high-rise commercial building facades!! Just one engine running at only a third of its power was mind blowing!
What exactly do you means when you say "test high-rise commercial building facades" in the same sentence as a Shackleton engine? Did you actually try and blow them over?
Willie Koorts
Not blow over (that’s would have been a catastrophic design failure)! It was to test a sample of buildings exterior weatherproofing facade, by subjecting it to high-winds. The Shackleton’s engine was perfect to replicate the ‘wind-loading’ pressure tall buildings could be subject to. To be honest, as a 21 year old at the time, my focus was more to the power of the magnificent 37ltr V12!
I was there that day, I had been medically boarded a few months earlier and sadly to say, at least it did not happen upon my watch. Somehow I instinctively knew that this was going to happen, sooner that later.
There is also another Shakleton in the UK at Coventry airport that was in taxi condition.
Great video Willie! I was posted at Ysterplaat (1977-1978) and the sound of the Shack engines was my favourite sound in the world!
I used to see and more importantly hear this sound every day over Elgin in Scotland as the Shack headed for finals at RAF Lossiemouth
Magnificent machine. Too bad for the wall and tree. Hope there will be one flying again
"I'm huffing, I'm puffing, I'll blow your house in!" :)))
Airport Commander: "We need a reason to paint that wall over there"
Shackleton: "Hold my beer!"
Built down the road from me, brilliant aircraft we have Dougal (one of the UKs last in MOSI). Beautifully made, sounds great, shame it doesnt fly.
Airport Commander: "Err Errr... Does anyone know a good brick layer?"
Good video...to the point, and very descriptive. Good camera work.
Incredible!
Sounds like a demo that you really need to hear in person!
Indeed! A camera microphone soon saturates! It is not so noticeable in the video, but Johan made a cellphone recording with his phone near the ground on his camera bag. This recording turned out to be the best, so I pulled it into a sound editor to clean up. When I lined it up with the video, it was amazing to see the drop in sound level, the moment the wall fell! It makes good sense if you think that suddenly a huge reflective surface for the sound disappeared!
@@SterremanWillie Absolutely! With the wall gone what was left of the palm trees would absorb the noise rather than bouncing it back. Just incredible demonstration of the power in those engines.
My uncle first assignment to the RAF was with a Shackleton squadron at RAF Lossiemouth
I love you video and your accent. Really good. Such power!!
Thanks Jethro
That's why I love the Shackleton she has so much power!
That was awesome ! 👍
the fact the nose of the aircraft looks so happy makes it even better. It has a :D face
Great plane, great video......mortarfying!
Super stuff. Greetings from a tragic of 224 Squadron RAF Coastal Command Shackletons Gibraltar 1963-66.
Thing just wants to fly. I say there’s nothing too valuable to fly, even if it’s one of a kind. Put it in the air and inspire people to be interested in aviation.
If you love something, let it fly - it will come back on it's own (or crash)
Just one problem: Show me the money! You have no idea how much I'm thinking about stealing - I mean "saving" - this aircraft before she gets sold off to some foreigners, or destroyed for scrap by the South African government...
Ooops!
Also, look at the tailplane assembly vibrating with the thrust!
Captain..we've hit a brick wall.
Engineer..ok..more POWER!!!!!
Captain...walls gone
Man y'all have balls ! Running this aircraft at full power with only the nose chocks...
What is the buildings behind the downed wall? Airport offices,school? That was an expensive wall to replace. Not strong enough for being in a run up area.
I happen to be visiting the guy who took the video at the moment and just asked him. The building is called "movements", which is effectively the departure and arrival area. The was has since been rebuild, but not too expensive since we do a lot of brickwork in South Africa, brick is actually cheaper than wood over here. Since the incident, they moved the engine run area elsewhere on the base, away from any buildings and walls.
@ thanks for the response. Great videos!👍🏻
People who complain about jet noise have never heard a DC-6 on departure (or approach for that matter). Big piston engines are LOUD.
True, but the difference is in the soul of the sound. Jet engines = volume only, Big piston engines = volume + soul + power.
It's a sound that just makes us feel it inside.
@@petert3355 They also rattle the foundations - I was brought up on an airport approach. I have NEVER heard a jet as loud as a DC-6/7.
Many years ago I watched a Harrier jump jet do a flight line display at Elvington Museum near York. A little boy was screaming at it to stop.A little boy in an adults body, me, was quietly screaming for more.And louder...As an aside I used to deliver to the East Mids airport when Channel Express were using C47/DC3's as freight haulers..
OUTSTANDING.... sorry about the wall and tree
My Granddad worked on these in the late 50's in his days with the RAF
Dankie johan
I used to live near ysterplaat.Good days
At max throttle, looks like hurricane force wind
Mortar bed failure- the aircraft just flushed the problem out before it had a chance to crush anyone! Sometimes these things happen for a reason..
Homeowners insurance company. "Sorry mate, blowing down a wall is not covered under your policy."
Hope their insurance covers wind damage caused by air plane engines.
I wonder what the wall construction was that it gave way like that. I must read about this plane. I hadn't known it before this video.
Johan jou legend
hahaha.. I did the same thing with a 767 and later a 747 years. Ago.. I also kicked up enough dust once with a 737 that a 747 had to perform a go around and change runways... the fun of high power engine ground runs....
My dad told me he watched a US Navy nurse get blown down the runway walking behind a Corsair's prop during WW2.
General Sir, that wall we contracted for, we were gyped, no re-bar.
I got a manual for the tail gun from a
Shackleton
We've been using big Excavators here in New Zealand to demolish earthquake damaged buildings ,when we could have that beast fly over and flatten them in half the time !
Man I miss Ysters.. 22 Squadron 1993-97.
Action happens at 5:11
Was not expecting what happened - wow :-O
I like Willie Koorts calm voice.
when did the plane go from a tail wheel to a nose wheel
The tricycle undercarriage was introduced with the MR Mk 3. First flight 1955, service entry 1957.
Wow that was shocking. I could be mistaken but isn’t this a good example of why most airports require the use of a run up pad or ground run enclosure for high power engine run ups?
Shackleton Teardown Inc.
For when you absolutely, positively have to tear down that wall. Reagan would be proud.
How come engine 4 is left running for a few more seconds? Guessing they need to provide some power for a few more seconds?
Yes, I see they always do that, and also suspect it is to provide electrical power to shut everything down gracefully.
Would it be acceptable if I used this in an episode of Power of Aviation? Of course, I'll give you credit for the video.
You're welcome. What is the format of P&A?
@@SterremanWillie Thanks.
I will create Aviation Compilation Videos.
@@PowerOfAviation cool, nice channel, I subscribed!
@@SterremanWillie Thank you so very much ❤️
Some power there!
I’m really sorry for this, but it looks like a B-24 with its wings lowered halfway down the fuselage and different engines and a redesigned nose
So, it doesn't really look like a b24 at all then?
It kinda does. It looks like a modified one
@@justat1149 right, the wrong is in a different place, it had different engines, and it has a different nose, as you said. What part do you think looks like a b24?
Shelby Seelbach
Honestly, if you look at it from a side on profile, it looks very similar. Also, I see a Liberator in the size/shape of the fuselage and tailplanes. The nose looks like one of the later B-24 variants with the nose turret, only said turret has been streamlined extensively. The major differences of course are the wings and engines, being lower down on the fuselage and the engines nacelles being smaller and fitted with contra-rotating props
@@justat1149 Oh, I must have missed the part where they showed the plane in profile. The tail design is similar, it has tricycle landing gear, it has four engines, other than that it looks nothing like a b24 in reality, nothing like. Just saying.
Wat a boytjie !!!!@ the magic dragons puff, vs Dackeltons !!
Aww c'mon, just because it's the only airworthy doesn't make it too special to fly! Special Kay flies regularly cross country, and she's the only airworthy one as well!
After loosing one Shackleton already when flying it to an airshow in England, I guess the guys thought they learnt their lesson.
It’s an unorthodox way to knock a wall down!
In flight the Shackleton was so ugly it was beautiful and the sound was just amazing, not the most comfortable to be in for long Atlantic patrols though.
Mr. Shackleton tear down that wall!
Reminds me of the experimental XF-84H plane, where the propellers turned so fast, the noise would literally make the ground crews sick.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_XF-84H_Thunderscreech
No wall maintenance done since 1994?
I brick wall is actually quite weak for sideways force and presents a huge surface area to wind.
Thrust, baby, thrust!
"Arvo"? That's how Aussies say 'afternoon' :)
South African ... not Australian 🙄
@@wilkowilkins363 Gotcha. I'm Australian and understand that it's in South Africa. My comment was a friendly post-colonial ribbing about the narrator's mis-pronunciation of "Avro" @0.17... :)
The narrator was still warming up🙂A joke we have in South Africa:"I only use English for self defence", (said in Afrikaans of course.)
when did they change the under - carriage configuration from tail dragger to tri - cycle ?
When they started producing the Shackleton MR3 in 1955.
Never knew that some of the Shacks were tail draggers and some were tricycle? Surely that requires major re-engineering of main undercarriage and spar arrangements to shift static centre of gravity so aircraft sits nose heavy on ground?
@@paulluce2557 Mk 3 had a new wing.
Epic.
That poor palm.
How come engine 4 carries on?
If you watch my other Shackleton videos, you will see they always do this when shutting down. I suspect it is to supply electrical power until everything can be switched off properly.
@@SterremanWillie AHH okay okay that makes sense good sir I will definitely watch more of your videos on it as it is a pretty unique air craft
This probably require a JBD installed before the engines are started😁😁
And I thought the chock being blown out of place was dangerous!
You should have taken this aircraft to Berlin a few decades ago ;-)
Talk about power
hay wasnt clarkson hammond and may in south africa in 2018 ?
Could be. I never saw that program, must look out for it.
When I was at Akrotiri a Vulcan running up hurled a man into the blast wall killing him instantly
We had a ground crew out in 117th squadron picked off his feet and sucked into an F-16 intake as he was crossing under the it. Lucky he got hung up on the central bar but almost suffocated to death. His coat was shredded, lucky the engine was only idling. After release from hospital he was court-martialed to 30day.
Don't you just hate it when that happens.
RR Griffon x4
Love your voice
Well that’ll keep the local tradies busy , eh ! 😁👍🏻
It is a shame that your bricklayers are not more competent!
If you think that's impressive, just imagine a B36 doing a full power engine run!
Willie dis 'n miljoen rand video, ek is bewus van die een wat nog diensbaar is, weet jy hoeveel vlug ure hy oor het, ek so iets van 1 uur gehoor, op Zwartkop Valhala staan ook 'n volledige een onder dak maar sal seker nie weer vlieg nie, baie dankie vir die video
Dankie Jan. Ja, Johan het hom perfek gevang! Ek het verskillende getalle gehoor oor hoeveel vlugure Pelican 22 oor het, maar aangesien hulle haar seker nie sommer weer sal laat vlieg nie, is dit seker meer as net akademiese belang. Ek het gehoor van die een op Zwartkop, maar nie seker van haar status nie, sal bietjie vir Johan vra of hy weet. Kyk ook my ander engine-start-video (skakel aan die einde), daar word melding gemaak van een op Valhala.
Dankie ek sal kyk Willie, ek het defnitief n paar foto's van die een op Zwartkop, miskien moet ek n video saamstel van my fotos van vliegtuie daar. Ekhet gekyk en ek het 2 fotos en baie van ons lugmag se ander ou vliegtuie, sal dalk nog van die Shackleton uit krap, Tweede edit, ek het 'n kort slideshow gelaai Willie
Wonderlik! Dankie Jan, ek het jou video gesien. Baie oulik! Jy moet een Saterdag die engine run kom kyk - gewoonlik die laaste Saterdag van die maand, maar dit word partymaal gekanselleer weens verskeie logistiese redes.
Their isn't any growl like the Griffon Growl.
hahahaha.. well I blew a full size container over the fence with my Hawker 800
It’s done in a minute 😂
Engine power knocking over a wall! Seen it ,covered it! We are Farmers! Bom ba da da bum bum bum!
5:10 - Забор пал, милорд!
Airworthy? Just for static display,I think.
I heard somewhere that the airframe is apparently still declared airworthy, but that it is too valuable to dare fly it. Not sure if this is correct though. One thing that would be a challenge is to get crew since they are getting fewer and fewer (and older and older!).
@@SterremanWillie Thanks Willie,so no crew,it might be a hard machine to get in the air.
Why abort the run? Damage is done.
Thought so too ... but I think he got such a fright, he did what was in his power!
Imagine my surprise.