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48k said:
The confusion in this thread is hilarious. It's like listening to a conversation in the lounge at a care home 
Yes the Shakelton. If were talking about the Vulcan, and they want to move it, then well arrange a pub meeting and XH558 can come to us. I believe it can be moved, rignt??? 
ecsrobin said:
williamp said:
Yes the Shakelton. If were talking about the Vulcan, and they want to move it, then well arrange a pub meeting and XH558 can come to us. I believe it can be moved, rignt???
What’s this got to do with Concorde? Are you suggesting it’s moving to brooklands? slartibartfast said:
lufbramatt said:
I think that’s when they’re planning to start sympathetically taking her to bits ready to be moved somewhere else (Elvington IIRC).
This is where the confusion starts for me...Elvington...where did you glean this from?No more Shackleton talk!!!
ecsrobin said:
slartibartfast said:
lufbramatt said:
I think that’s when they’re planning to start sympathetically taking her to bits ready to be moved somewhere else (Elvington IIRC).
This is where the confusion starts for me...Elvington...where did you glean this from?No more Shackleton talk!!!
Maybe they should never have dropped Comprehension from the school syllabus......
aeropilot said:
But its really not hard to follow......if people bothered to read the posts.
Maybe they should never have dropped Comprehension from the school syllabus......
Matt’s original comment wasn’t quoting anything so even reading along through the thread it’s easy to see why some think it’s the Vulcan. Maybe they should never have dropped Comprehension from the school syllabus......
Didn't there used to be a thread about the Shackleton? I'm much more interested in that, given that it has proper reciprocating engines, with pistons, and not these new-fangled turbines. Could it fly again? Again, much more interested to watch a Shackleton clatter about. It's a basically a Lancaster with Griffons, FFS.
magpie215 said:
Yertis said:
, Could it fly again? Again, much more interested to watch a Shackleton clatter about. It's a basically a Lancaster with Griffons, FFS.
Doubtful we will ever see a return to flight of a Shackleton.https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
Rich is a friend of mine and from what I can gather:
a) There is no technical barrier to the Shackleton returning to flight, its wartime construction falls under a much easier set of regs than the "complex" category Vulcan. The issue however is money as SPT operates like most trusts on a shoestring. In my personal opinion here, VTTS and their behaviour have made life ever so much more difficult for legitimate aircraft groups run by genuine people to get funding and goodwill
b) keep an eye on Just Jane - as and when that finally returns to flight, it will have blazed a lot of trails through certification and suppliers etc which will then make life much easier for any lanc, shack or lincoln to follow
c) The dismantling of the 963 to move it to Elvington will in a way be beneficial, as a lot of the deep inspections and NDT on the wing roots etc. that is needed to return to flight, would have required a similar level of dismantling anyway (this also answers the question of why 963 currently can't be flown to her new home)
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