Of course Shacks can fly with only ‘two turning’…like this one:
WL786 ‘B’ of 205 Sqdn flies past with both starboard side engines stopped during a display over some dummy missiles at the 1962 Changi Battle of Britain Air Display.
The dummy missiles were well and truly destroyed by a selection of 20 Sqdn Hunters, 45 sqdn Canberras and the Shackleton during the show…and finally finished off by the troops from a 34 Sqdn Beverley. That showed the Singaporeans that we were ready for anything Sukarno in Indonesia could produce. Pity Sukarno didn’t see the display I guess!
Ben,
We all love your team’s determination and I’m sure all on this forum will try and help all we can.
You taxied her in 2008 I know so once that replaced engine is running again any chance you could get her to that stage again?
With the Classic Flight visitor centre coming together this year, you should see lots more people interested in visiting Baginton.
It would be a big draw to see the Shack taxing.
Here’s one from the past to remind us of the Mk2 flying:
WL954 ‘F’ of 205 Sqdn Changi on bombing practice in October 1963. I was a 16 year old and had ‘blagged’ a trip on the RAF Seletar launch which acted as the ‘target tug’. One splash is the practice anti-sub mine and the other is the target …so it was a pretty good considering the aircraft is at 90 degrees to its target.
The site looks really good.
Here’s a couple more from my Changi pics, you haven’t seen yet:
Argosy XP445 landing on Changi runway 02 past the last Shack 1A WB854 that expired as the fire dump aircraft in 1963.
XP449 on finals for 02.
All the best for the season.
David T
Well…flying I’d love to see:
A Hastings.
A Beverley…how did we let that one get away.
A Shack…here’s hoping for WR963!
A Gannet…I want to hear that Double Mamba again!
The beautiful Comet.
A Brit …another engine sound I’m missing!
Oh and this particular aircraft…
She was WU-15 then, but we all know her as ‘Just Jane’.
Dave T
I only watched them…
XH724 at Changi in 1963.
XH717 about to touch down on runway 20 at Changi, Sept 62.
60 Sqn put up an 8 ship formation at the 1962 Changi Battle of Britain display.
David T
Here’s a couple of photos of the Wessex in the drawing Lee supplied:
Wessex XM869 from Ark Royal arrives at RAF Changi, Singapore for the Battle-of-Britain display on 15th September 1963. The pilot is is Dick Boas and his co-pilot, not shown in the photo, is Dick Browne. The person looking directly at the camera is the Observer, Brian Routledge and the aircrewman with his back to the camera is believed to be Norman Anning.
David Taylor.
Singapore-the early 60’s. Seletar and Changi both housed the ‘Towed Target Flight’. I used to see ‘new’ F8’s and NF11’s arrive:
Like this F8 WA880 in early 1962.
Pretty soon they were operating like this:
Eventually they ended up like this:
TT20’s WD678 and WD645 being reduced to junk at 390 MU Seletar late 1963.
Let’s hope that Classic Flight keep their Meteor NF11 in the air for a longtime…and we get an F8 up beside it!
David T.
Adrian,
Sabres from 3 Sqdn RAAF Butterworth, Malaya at the Paya Lebar Airshow, Singapore July 1961.
Memories of wonderful teenage years spent enjoying the aviation in Singapore and I can’t believe it was all of 48 years ago.
David
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