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Title: What is this plane?
Post by: eagl 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?

Title: Re: What is this plane?
Post by: Golfer on April 29, 2013, 09:22:59 AM

Shackleton

Title: Re: What is this plane?
Post by: gyrene81 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.

Title: Re: What is this plane?
Post by: Karnak 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.

Title: Re: What is this plane?
Post by: xbrit on April 29, 2013, 10:55:28 AM

Golfer got it.
(http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x132/xbrit58/Shackleton-Bomber_zps3e86dd2b.jpg) (http://s187.photobucket.com/user/xbrit58/media/Shackleton-Bomber_zps3e86dd2b.jpg.html)

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

Title: Re: What is this plane?
Post by: B3YT on May 07, 2013, 06:30:04 PM

lovely bird , could do some interesting manoeuvres  at air shows .

Title: Re: What is this plane?
Post by: RTHolmes on May 07, 2013, 06:51:19 PM

Still in RAF service in the 80s iirc. how embarrassing.