I grew up in Londonderry, Northern Ireland and 14 miles north of the city was RAF Ballykelly where a squadron of these beautiful aircraft was based. I recall them training by flying over the city with the two inboard engines shut down. I later met one of the pilots who became a captain with Aer Lingus. He told me that most weekends a "Shack" was permitted to fly down to Gibraltar on a "navigation training exercise". For same strange reason it returned with a good supply of duty free cigarettes and booze.
Alan Simpson My father in law was a technician at Ballykelly, he often got to fly on those Gib runs. He even used to get a stint on the controls, he is 88 now and still lives in Portstewart.
brian burns and I flew many times on this beauty it is so good to hear and see the rivets all flying in formation ,963 at Coventry is magic shame about the colours and no radome still got the squadron special whisky the shacks will never be forgotten we defended the uk for many years without any praise not like some of todays so called heroes
I remember having an air experience flight in a Shack at Lossie in the 70's. I was RAF ground crew (squipper) on 202Sqd SAR choppers at the time. Built for comfort, leather seats. last of the old piston bangers.
The Brit’s in their shack’s always flew regardless of weather conditions. My U.S. Air Force jets would be grounded forty percent of the time in Scotland due to weather. We would watch the shacks blue exhaust go down the socked in run way and fly patrol while we played cards and drank coffee.
I grew up in Limavady, only a couple of miles from Ballykelly where 3 squadrons of Shackleton's were based. The growl of the 'shack's' engines never bothered us, but visitors used to complain about the noise, at all sorts of ungodly hours. With aircrew for neighbours I never said no to visiting the base and getting up close and personal to these wonderful old and reliable birds
I can't tell you how good it was to see this video. Well done all concerned. I flew this old bird many times. I just love the 'cando' attitude of Yanks! The 'spark plug' was a an ESM radar detector. I don't want to get technical but it wasn't worth the airspeed. Hey! We got to 23500ft in one just to see how startled ATC would react. Guess what? Nothing. Debriefed that this was an extremely risky thing to do as rudders didn't have enough authority to accommodate an engine failure/overspeed. God Bless Americans.
If this is the Shackleton that was sent to AZ then I saw it in 2009 or there about when visiting my brother in law who lives in Tucson. I believe they had just repainted her. ALL aircraft at the AZ museum are flyable, after all, they all flew there to begin with. Yes, the yanks are great at preserving historic items, especially aircraft. Also, there was a Shack located as a “display” at St.Mawgan near the gate. I saw it when I visited there around 2013 … Whatever happened to that one?
Still an impressive job of 'cando'. Good to see. Trying to get one airborne from Coventry ...but will take forever. in the meantime it does engine/taxy runs ...without its radome and painted in its old maritime colours and fake canons at the front. Still impressive though.
0.57...wrong. South Africa has, still, the only airworthy Shack in the world. Too valuable to fly, it is only occasionally run up on the ground. We had until recently (before the disastrous loss in the Sahara desert of one of them), a few of them still flying. I had the privilege of seeing the last one being run up about 10 years ago at AFB Ysterplaat.
I worked on this Aircraft on 8 Sqn, RAF Lossiemouth for the last few years of their service. Many happy memories.
Great to see this magnificent plane flying and in good hands!
I grew up in Londonderry, Northern Ireland and 14 miles north of the city was RAF Ballykelly where a squadron of these beautiful aircraft was based. I recall them training by flying over the city with the two inboard engines shut down. I later met one of the pilots who became a captain with Aer Lingus. He told me that most weekends a "Shack" was permitted to fly down to Gibraltar on a "navigation training exercise". For same strange reason it returned with a good supply of duty free cigarettes and booze.
Alan Simpson
My father in law was a technician at Ballykelly, he often got to fly on those Gib runs. He even used to get a stint on the controls, he is 88 now and still lives in Portstewart.
My thanks for the memories. My first flight ever was in a Shack from Ballykelly. Only wish I could remember the details better.
brian burns and I flew many times on this beauty it is so good to hear and see the rivets all flying in formation ,963 at Coventry is magic shame about the colours and no radome still got the squadron special whisky the shacks will never be forgotten we defended the uk for many years without any praise not like some of todays so called heroes
I remember having an air experience flight in a Shack at Lossie in the 70's. I was RAF ground crew (squipper) on 202Sqd SAR choppers at the time. Built for comfort, leather seats. last of the old piston bangers.
Awesome sound
The passing epoch. In the sound of motors-Songs of the soul!
The Brit’s in their shack’s always flew regardless of weather conditions. My U.S. Air Force jets would be grounded forty percent of the time in Scotland due to weather. We would watch the shacks blue exhaust go down the socked in run way and fly patrol while we played cards and drank coffee.
It's nice to see aew2 Shackleton and here it to, in all its glory
Saw her in Midland, 2005 I belive. Good to see she has a home.
Just amazing
I grew up in Limavady, only a couple of miles from Ballykelly where 3 squadrons of Shackleton's were based. The growl of the 'shack's' engines never bothered us, but visitors used to complain about the noise, at all sorts of ungodly hours. With aircrew for neighbours I never said no to visiting the base and getting up close and personal to these wonderful old and reliable birds
I can't tell you how good it was to see this video. Well done all concerned. I flew this old bird many times. I just love the 'cando' attitude of Yanks! The 'spark plug' was a an ESM radar detector. I don't want to get technical but it wasn't worth the airspeed. Hey! We got to 23500ft in one just to see how startled ATC would react. Guess what? Nothing. Debriefed that this was an extremely risky thing to do as rudders didn't have enough authority to accommodate an engine failure/overspeed. God Bless Americans.
If this is the Shackleton that was sent to AZ then I saw it in 2009 or there about when visiting my brother in law who lives in Tucson. I believe they had just repainted her. ALL aircraft at the AZ museum are flyable, after all, they all flew there to begin with. Yes, the yanks are great at preserving historic items, especially aircraft.
Also, there was a Shack located as a “display” at St.Mawgan near the gate. I saw it when I visited there around 2013 … Whatever happened to that one?
i was at the airport with my friend and got to tour this plane as a child before it took off!
Still impressive and sounds great just the way it sounded at raf strawman when my dad was a flight sergent 507 squadron
Still an impressive job of 'cando'. Good to see. Trying to get one airborne from Coventry ...but will take forever. in the meantime it does engine/taxy runs ...without its radome and painted in its old maritime colours and fake canons at the front. Still impressive though.
Süper 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
Big bird mate.
0.57...wrong. South Africa has, still, the only airworthy Shack in the world. Too valuable to fly, it is only occasionally run up on the ground. We had until recently (before the disastrous loss in the Sahara desert of one of them), a few of them still flying. I had the privilege of seeing the last one being run up about 10 years ago at AFB Ysterplaat.
Not true south Africa has two of this beautiful aircrafts
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Ment St mawgan
shame they couldn't just swap the engines for turbo props and keep her going.
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