Talk about being shot down here, LesB I know an awful lot of people from the Shack fraternity and all of them know the nicknames I put up, and haven’t heard of shacklepin. Because you havent heard of them dosen’t mean they wern’t used as nicknames, in the same way I wouldn’t doubt ‘shacklepin’ Don’t know many Jav crews, but ones I do, concur with what I posted.

Mmm . . . Any bloke who was on Shacks or even had dealings with them and didn’t know the term Shacklepin must have been in a different Air Force :rolleyes: . But, to be fair, I’ve heard the term “Old Grey Lady” but that wasn’t what was used in everyday parlance when talking about them. People would say “There’s a Shacklepin due in at 13:00.” Not, “There’s an “Old Grey Lady” due in . . .” (unless there was to be a visit by the Queen Mum).

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The Belfast of course became known as the Belslow

Yes, but not used as a nickname more a ‘banter’ descriptor in conversation.

Hi Les, any idea why 231 called their a/c Marrows ??

Shape of fuselage and the dire need to be different (strange peeps on 231 :rolleyes: ). They fielded a 4-ship formation team of Canberra T.4s called “Green Marrows”. Quite good really considering the frames were bomber trainers, used to do upward starbursts etc.

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BillT
Whay not have a word with the Britt blokes at Kemble? Their machine has been sitting outside on the airfield for yonks.

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Right, I see what happened. Flap shroud bent and damaged and aileron at the outer edge. Conjecture about the why . . . bit of flap droop meant play in the security of the aileron lock. Small at first but once started would build up in oscillations. Actually surprised to see the lock still in place really but you can see where it’s been pulled away from the flap shroud. Unsure as to why the damage at the outer end. Looks a bit like some sort of contact damage though. Anything there that could cause this?

. . . strong winds overnight, Canberra WJ639 suffered some wing damage…mainly to the left wing in that the aileron was slightly ripped, the far end of the wing which is connected to the drop tank was slightly damaged too, on inspection today, we disscussed the choices of reparing or replacing the panel, its looking more along the lines of a new panel.

Be interested to know how a Canberra aileron can be ‘ripped’, even slightly. :confused: Also, be interesting to know in what way the wing tip was damaged. Any pictures?

The Canvas on the same side of the tale was also ripped, its going to be a big repair job 🙁

Can’t recall there being any ‘canvas’ on the side of the tale (sic) – I guess you mean ‘fin’. Canberra fins are covered with marine ply. :confused:

If you’re worried about a Canberra sitting back on its tail – this can happen very easily, especially in snow and high winds – best bet would be to have a padded trestle under the rear fuse at the trestling point. I do hope you have a trestle or some sort of stay there. You do, don’t you!

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Spotted these bits for sale on fleabay, thought they might be of interest to the cranberry fans.

Looks to me like PR.9 kit, the canopy is, not sure about the equip, could be either. Could it be kit ‘liberated’ when 39 Sqn closed down two years ago?

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Late to this thread but Billion Dollar Brain is correct answer. Have a photo somewhere . . . 😉

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Yes it was Dave, need glasses here. It’s on my list as such. Other post deleted.

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