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By: - 5th July 2004 at 15:53 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Best place to keep a JP3 I reckon!
By: - 6th July 2004 at 08:06 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
We've got one in the basement of our university too (sorry, the file size of the photos is too big to post them).
By: - 6th July 2004 at 09:09 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Didn't there used to be a Meteor at a garage in Hastings?
There was also a Vickers Viking at Vic's Viking motors, somewhere in South Africa, which I think was replaced by a Shackleton (mmmmm, Shackleton.....), now hideously disfigured in Coca-Cola colours. Any pictures, Forumites?
By: - 6th July 2004 at 09:34 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
And has anyone seen the dreadful way the Science Museum has "displayed" the Shorts SC.1? Hanging on a wall on its side with the undercarriage removed; what a way to treat an historic aeroplane.
By: - 6th July 2004 at 09:38 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
We've got one in the basement of our university too (sorry, the file size of the photos is too big to post them).
Reminds me of getting a Yak 11 out of a basement a few years ago, it must have been put in there before all the services as it was impossible to get the wing out either vertically or horizontally so we had to carry the thing lent over at 45 degrees through a number of passages in this basement until we finally got it outside to the point where the crane could lift it on to the lorry!!!!
By: - 6th July 2004 at 09:47 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
A Shack that really drives you to drink!
By: - 6th July 2004 at 10:33 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Isn't (or wasn't) there a Lancaster on top of a garage in Canada?
And also a B17 on a garage in the USA?
By: - 6th July 2004 at 10:36 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
and at one time a P40 in the US, which is now flying again.
By: - 6th July 2004 at 14:34 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
The B-17 has left the roof of the garage
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By: - 6th July 2004 at 15:56 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
the lancaster was sitting on its wheels beside a garage but was destroyed in a ground runnning fire the serial was KB885
By: - 6th July 2004 at 17:30 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Yep - theres still at Meteor at a garage in hastings - been there years now but they really look after it
By: - 6th July 2004 at 21:15 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Theres a Bucc at a filling station in Elgin-Gulf War veteran too.
By: - 6th July 2004 at 21:48 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
how could they do that to that poor shack ?
ought to be a law against that
By: - 6th July 2004 at 22:13 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Well, at least its not mouldering away in Cyprus-or Duxford for that matter!
By: - 6th July 2004 at 22:18 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
addwebber - They swapped it for the Viking that was on the roof of the garage. The Shackleton Mr.3 isn't incredibly rare in S.A whereas the Viking is unique ! It's a matter of saving the valuable stuff.
By: - 7th July 2004 at 09:44 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
i don't doubt for a second that preserving the rare ones is the better choice, shacks may not be rare yet but they will be surely, that wasn't my point anyway.the point was the paint scheme.
coincidently , exactly how many shacks are there left now?
i know of air atlantiques two.......... coventry and the U.S
that coke one.......
what happenned to that South African one that crashed ?
By: - 7th July 2004 at 09:46 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Der any pics of that Bucc, ones i got are quite old
By: - 7th July 2004 at 09:57 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
The Shackleton (Pelican16 - 1716) that crashed is still there, well some of it!
About three years ago some of the crew re-visited it and found that it had been stripped from the cockpit rearwards.
During Gatwick Aviation Musems open weekend recently we were delighted to meet a couple of guys working on the Mk3 (XF708) at Duxford. It seems that they took it upon themselves to start cleaning the inside etc. They have had some support from the management and have got the de-humidifiers going. We obviously offered our support in their efforts, lets hope others do also!
By: - 7th July 2004 at 14:55 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Yep - theres still at Meteor at a garage in hastings - been there years now but they really look after it
Confirmed!! I finally caught up with it in April. I was suprised to find it looking so good. Glad it is though. It's a T7 which is quite a rare mark these days (although no doubt somebody will prove me wrong).
If my memory is correct it has wing tanks on it, not many preserved Meteors do (although, yet again, somebody is bound to prove me wrong)
Sadly, all my local Rover garage has outside it is new Rovers!!
Willow
By: - 7th July 2004 at 15:32 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
There used to be a Hunter on top of a building on the A40 near Hangar Lane. The building was owned by a removals and storage company. The Hunter only made an appearence during the summer months though.
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By: adwwebber - 5th July 2004 at 13:49
Strange place to keep an aeroplane !
Here is a jet provost serial XM425 stored on top of a local garage in
Stoke On Trent, wondered wether any one else had pics of planes in strange places !
Xm425 has been there about two years now.