Shackleton engine start up and run

Air Atlantique's Shackleton starts up and runs its engines at one of AA's "Open days," at their home base of Coventry in the UK, on 19th June 2004.

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• Propliner
• aircraft
• engine
• start
• up
• Avro
• Shackleton
• engines
• propellors
• airplane
• airport
• Coventry
• Baginton

[Proplinerman]

Yes, Rolls Royce Griffons, 2455 hp each and an ex-crew member, who still looks after this aircraft, explained to me that Avro resorted to counter-rotating propellors as the only way of feasibly harnessing all that power; single propellors would have had to be so big they would have fouled the ground.

[canals22]

@Proplinerman then... how come you have Reno racers with 4000 hp and a single prop ??

Look it up, the advantages and disvantages of contra-props...

[Proplinerman]

@canals22

Thanks for your comment-interesting engineering question, but one which I am not qualified to answer. I rather think though that contra-props must be a very complicated engineering solution, as so very few aircraft have had them.

[MrCagivaman]

Avro Shackleton = 20,000 rivets flying in close formation followed by an oil slicklol. Anyway, thats what we used to say in the RAF.

[FiveCentsPlease]

Sad that no more are being flown. We are lucky that B-29 FIFI is getting air time. The costs to operate any 4-engined type (fuel, maintenance, and insurance) are so high that it's doubtful many will fly for extended periods.

[gm16v149]

@biggles 19821 That's a shame because they were an everyday occurrence when I was a kid. A lot of people didn't like the noise of them flying so low but I loved it.

[biggles19821]

@gm16v149

No. The last ones were 1722 in South Africa, and WL790 in the USA. Both of them did their last flights a few years back. WL790 went to Pima Arizona in December 2007 which I think was the last flight of a Shackleton anywhere.

[gm16v149]

@biggles19821 Are there any Shacks flying now? I remember one crashed at St Mawgan and another one in Scotland many years ago.

[biggles19821]

@BRU11ROAD

Sorry to disappoint you, but we're not! We had a statement published in the aviation press at the beginning of 2010 about it. Fast taxiing is the best you're going to get out of her I'm afraid.

[gm16v149]

When I lived in Newquay Cornwall in the '60s you could hear the engines being run up at St Mawgan aerodrome, around 11 miles away I think. They sometimes flew so low over our house you could actually see the aircrew.

[BRU11ROAD]

THEY are trying to get this one flying again so you may hear the charateristic growl of the Rolls Royce Griffons again

[BRU11ROAD]

THEY are trying to get this one flying again so you may hear the charteristic growl of the Rolls Royce Griffons again