The Avro Shackleton was a British long-range maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) which was used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the South African Air Force...
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piston-engined bomber operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF); the later Avro Shackleton, though piston-engined, served in maritime patrol rather than bomber...
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On 30 April 1990, a Royal Air Force Avro Shackleton AEW Mk II aircraft, of No. 8 Squadron RAF, based at RAF Lossiemouth, crashed into a hill on the Isle...
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January 2013. SAAF 1722 - Avro Shackleton Archived 1 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved: 29 July 2009 Shackleton WR963 Update "ROLLS ROYCE...
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Chartres, John (1985). Avro Shackleton. London: I. Allan. p. 85. ISBN 0711015139. Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Avro Shackleton MR.2 WL743 Fastnet...
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of Shackleton and photographer Frank Hurley. Aurora Australis, the first book produced in Antarctica, during the Nimrod Expedition Avro Shackleton, British...
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1 January 1972 in the Airborne Early Warning (AEW) role using the Avro Shackleton AEW.2. It moved to RAF Lossiemouth on 14 August 1973, where it stayed...
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successful British aircraft with contra-rotating propellers are the Avro Shackleton, powered by the Rolls-Royce Griffon engine, and the Fairey Gannet,...
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incidents involving the Avro Shackleton four-engined maritime patrol and later airborne early warning aircraft. 12 August 1951 Shackleton MR.1 VP283 of No....
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9 (fuselage / wings) Aviasud Sirocco Avro Anson C.19 Avro Ashton (forward fuselage) Avro Shackleton MR.3/3 Avro Vulcan B.2 Bensen B-8 Blackburn Beverley...
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long range anti-submarine patrol aircraft (later supplanted by the Avro Shackleton) and air-sea rescue. It was also used for photo-reconnaissance and...
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Cornwall, flying Avro Shackleton MR.1s in the maritime reconnaissance role. In 1954, the squadron began to re-equip with the Shackleton MR.2. On 11 January...
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issued by the Royal Air Force (RAF) to replace its fleet of ageing Avro Shackletons, the Nimrod MR1/MR2s were fixed-wing aerial platforms primarily for...
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The Avro 691 Lancastrian was a British and Canadian passenger and mail transport aircraft of the 1940s and 1950s developed from the Avro Lancaster heavy...
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and search and rescue roles pending the further development of the Avro Shackleton aircraft. It was also prominent in Operation Snowdrop, supplying food...
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Saskatchewan, Canada Shackleton, Western Australia Shackleton, Zimbabwe Shackleton (crater), a crater at the south pole of the Moon Avro Shackleton, a maritime...
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early Cold War period. The first version of Autolycus was deployed on Avro Shackleton aircraft in the mid-1950s, with an improved version re-appearing in...
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Buckinghamshire, UK: Hall Park Books. ISSN 1363-0369. Jones, Barry (2002). Avro Shackleton. Crowood Aviation Series. Wiltshire, UK: Crowood Press. ISBN 1861264496...
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Roy Chadwick (category Avro Lancaster)
the Avro Vulcan V-bomber. He also converted the Lincoln into the Shackleton. His Avro Yorks carried one-third of the entire British tonnage during the...
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During the late 1940s, the RAF introduced the Avro Shackleton – a specialised MPA derivative of the Avro Lancaster bomber – in anticipation of a rapid...
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Napier Nomad (category Avro Shackleton)
dry liners. While the Nomad II was undergoing testing, a prototype Avro Shackleton was lent to Napier as a testbed. The engine proved bulky, like the...
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rocket at Swartkop Replica Patterson Number 2 Biplane at Swartkop Avro Shackleton at Swartkop Cheetah C at Swartkop SAAF North American P-51 Mustang...
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Javelin, English Electric Canberra, English Electric Lightning and Avro Shackleton; as well as rotary-wing RAF aircraft such as the Bristol Belvedere...
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December 1967 – XF702, Avro Shackleton MR.3, 206 Squadron, Inverness, 13 killed. 1968 19 April 1968 – WB833, Avro Shackleton MR.2, 204 Squadron, Argyll...
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September 1952 as a maritime reconnaissance squadron, it was equipped with Avro Shackletons and based at RAF St Eval in Cornwall. The squadron moved to RAF Kinloss...
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Stratofreighter, Fairchild C-123 Provider, North American AJ Savage, and Avro Shackleton aircraft were also so equipped. To save weight and complexity of two...
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GBU-12 GBU-24 Mark 24 mine - Obsolete 18" Mark 30 torpedo - Carried by Avro Shackleton and Hawker Siddeley Nimrod. In service from 1954 to 1975. Mark 44 torpedo...
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No. 201 Squadron RAF (section Shackletons and Nimrods)
the Avro Shackleton MR.3, a version that used a tricycle undercarriage as opposed to the earlier tailwheel variants. Following the Shackleton's retirement...
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