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Photo ID: 2200121
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WL747 / 47 (cn R3/696/239005) Airborne-early warning Shackleton AEW.2 of No. 8 Squadron based at RAF Lossiemouth demonstrating at the RAF Finningley Jubilee show. |
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Photo ID: 2160109
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Photo ID: 2157335
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WR960 Basking in the late winter sunlight behind hangar 885. |
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Photo ID: 2155458
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Views: 2183
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WR960 Photographed on approach to Keflavik. Fortunately this Shackleton is one of the few that still survive today, in the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. Sad to see these wonderful machines being reduced to scrap, as so many of its contemporaries have been. |
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Photo ID: 2154678
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Views: 1971
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WL754 / 54 Among the last visits of the AEW Shackletons to Keflavik, WL754 is shown taxying out in some wet conditions. Note that there are lookouts both in the nose position and astrodome, keeping a close watch on the photographer. To this date the only photo on Airliners of 754 in an operational state. |
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Photo ID: 2152586
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WL790 Shown being started on a cold winter day in Keflavik. Fortunately this Shackleton still survives at the Pima County Museum near Davis Monthan in Arizona. |
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Photo ID: 2136568
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Views: 1046
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WR960 Now preserved in the super Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. This Shackleton was built at Woodford in 1954 and served with various squadrons in a martime reconnaisance role. In 1972 she was converted to fulfill an AEW role and named 'Dougal' (can you spot him?) as all 8 Sqn aircraft were named after characters in either The Magic Roundabout or Herb Garden. |
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Photo ID: 2132642
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Views: 1884
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WL745 / J Taxying and parking on the AEW ramp after arrival beside a Boeing E-3A. Note that the E-3A is fenced of and the Shackleton parks outside the fence. Also note the security guard in his car seen under the Shacks left wing. He was looking at the photographer with suspicion. |
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Photo ID: 2132641
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WL745 / J Parked outside the security fence around the stationed Boeing E-3A. |
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Photo ID: 2132640
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WL747 / J Parked on the ramp east of hangar 885, the biggest on the base. |
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Photo ID: 2132411
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WL756 / J Parked with the wheels well covered, this Shackleton AEW is visiting Keflavik. It still had about five more years of service, being SOC 23.2.1988 to St. Mawgan for fire practice. |
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Photo ID: 2131716
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WL790 / 8 Begging for repaint. Four Rolls Royce Griffons powered this derivitive of the Lancaster |
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Photo ID: 2116428
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WL745 These were common visitors at Keflavik during the 70s and early 80s. This airframe was withdrawn from use 1981 and allocated to the RAF Fire Fighting and Safety School, Catterick. Flown to Catterick 13.7.81 and allotted the maintenance serial 8698M. Burnt 1983. |
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Photo ID: 2113730
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WL790 / 8 (cn R3/696/239009) the prime British flying radar station in the eighties. AFter failure of the Nimrod AEW it had to soldier on until the arrival of the Sentry. |
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Photo ID: 2112199
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Views: 2763
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WR963 / B-M Hard work for the crewmen having to concentrate on an oscilloscope for hours on end over the North Atlantic in a very cramped and extremely noisy aeroplane. |
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