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Final flight of the Shack. Pt. 1

PostPosted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 4:25 pm
by mrjake2002
On December the 16th 2007, the last airworthy Shackleton made it's final flight from Midland, Texas and the Pima Air and Space Museum at Davis-Monthan, Arizona.

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See Part 2.  :)

Re: Final flight of the Shack. Pt. 1

PostPosted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 11:23 am
by C
On December the 16th 2007, the last airworthy Shackleton made it's final flight from Midland, Texas and the Pima Air and Space Museum at Davis-Monthan, Arizona.



Not strictly true, as there is still the former SAAF Shack MR3 (which this payware package was designed to support) airworthy in SA.

It was the last flight of a former RAF AEW2 though... :) ;)

Re: Final flight of the Shack. Pt. 1

PostPosted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:43 pm
by mrjake2002
Ahh yes, quite correct. (Been Reading Aeroplane Monthly).  :)

Re: Final flight of the Shack. Pt. 1

PostPosted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:38 pm
by C
Ahh yes, quite correct. (Been Reading Aeroplane Monthly).  :)



Mmm, I'm almost considering cancelling my subscription to that. I was seriously non-plussed by the latest issue's content...

Cancelled FlyPast last year, yet that is arguably now becoming the better of the two...

Re: Final flight of the Shack. Pt. 1

PostPosted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:09 pm
by mrjake2002
Agree with you there... nice to see a mention of the old Wessex from down the road though.  8-)

Re: Final flight of the Shack. Pt. 1

PostPosted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 3:39 pm
by C
Very nice shots though BTW, although I never noticed how out of scale the aircrew were on the Shackleton package! :)

Either that or they're Pygmies... :)

Re: Final flight of the Shack. Pt. 1

PostPosted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 4:33 pm
by Harold
I never noticed how out of scale the aircrew were on the Shackleton package!

I thought the exact same thing ... I thought the Shack was developed based on the Lancaster and I was thinking: "Lancasters weren't that big were they?" ...

Nice series Jake ... I like the first. Very nice dynamics in that one ;)