Ben, if Mo says it’s so, it’s so – trust me he is Mr Shack! In the long time that I’ve been interested in the type his name has alwas been at the top.
I think there is some confusion with this spar info that you use.
No confusion on part matey, Im just recounting what I have been told. For example, Ive been told that WR963 and several other AEW shacks had a major not that long before she was retired!
When she was resparred (bottom boom replaced) in the early 80s (i think it was) she had new webs in the wing as well as a brand new tailplane. She never had a top boom replacement. I believe the chaps up at coventry when they say that no shack ever had a top boom replacement? If the shack at paphos had had such a recent full spar replacement, then surely tooling would have been saved at the time? Also, surely the Raf would not have made just a single upper boom for one aircraft? :confused:
Ill be happily corrected 🙂 could make getting our shack back in the air a whole lot easier 🙂
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