By: danohagan - 28th January 2005 at 10:04
One word of caution do not insult the Shack, only ex Shack men have that right !!!!
Wouldn’t dream of it!
By: Peter Mills - 28th January 2005 at 08:37
Chris Ashworths book is generally considered by Shack men as the authoritive work on this aircraft. It is out of print and can be difficult to find. Chris Ashworth was, I believe, a Nav on Shacks and only recently passed away. Barry Jones book is good but has a few minor factual errors.
Sadly, in its day the Shack carried out it role quietly in the background whilst more “glamorous” aircraft tended to feature in the publics imagination. As a result little was written about the Shack at the time and therefore there is now a dearth of material. One word of caution do not insult the Shack, only ex Shack men have that right !!!!
By: Dave T - 27th January 2005 at 17:59
There’s Avro Shackleton by Barry Jones published by Crowood (in print and approx £30).
In the Alan W.Hall Warpaint series there’s one covering the Shack’ (but its out of print).
Shackleton At War & Peace by John Chatres, published by Ian Allan, plus a similar smaller book in the Ian Allan modern combat aircraft series (No3 i think)
Also, this website I can highly recommend for devotees of the SAAF Shacks…
www.shackletonproject.co.za/index/html
Cheers……..
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January 27, 2005 at 5:31 pm