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Offline eagl

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What is this plane?
« on: April 29, 2013, 08:19:38 AM »
Look at the first plane in this article.  What is it?

http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2013/04/finding-beauty-in-wrecked-and-rotting-airplanes/

Counter-rotating props with inline engines on a B-24, with an added observation station on top of the nose, crashed in the west sahara?  Maybe a Russian mod to the B-24?

Edit - After looking more, it's clearly not a B-24.  The wing and tail are mounted too low.  Brit bomber?
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Offline Golfer

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Re: What is this plane?
« Reply #1 on: April 29, 2013, 09:22:59 AM »
Shackleton
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Offline gyrene81

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Re: What is this plane?
« Reply #2 on: April 29, 2013, 09:24:59 AM »
definitely not a b-24...cockpit and engine mounts look like b-25 but, again the tail section is all wrong.
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Re: What is this plane?
« Reply #3 on: April 29, 2013, 10:51:59 AM »
Quote from: Golfer on April 29, 2013, 09:22:59 AM
Shackleton
Yup, definitely a Shackelton.

Golfer got it in one.
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Offline xbrit

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Re: What is this plane?
« Reply #4 on: April 29, 2013, 10:55:28 AM »
Golfer got it.


A few facts about the Shack
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Shackleton

LOL just read the wiki page and guess what it mentions--
SAAF 1716 ('Pelican 16'), crashed in the Sahara in 1994
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Offline B3YT

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Re: What is this plane?
« Reply #5 on: May 07, 2013, 06:30:04 PM »
lovely bird , could do some interesting manoeuvres  at air shows .
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Offline RTHolmes

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Re: What is this plane?
« Reply #6 on: May 07, 2013, 06:51:19 PM »
Still in RAF service in the 80s iirc. how embarrassing.
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