Avro Shackleton Mk. I. Nose radome: radar ASV Mk 7 or maybe they'd upped to Mk. 13. Friends of mine crewed, can't remember the Squadron - easy enough to find out.
As a post-war Sunderland Air Signaller I've heard the Boat vs 8 JUs story, but never heard that most of that crew bought it in another 6 JU attack!
Another story is of a Sunderbus ferrying 88(?) escapees from Greece to Egypt. Couldn't take off so they taxied across the Med!
Cheers, Ian/Eddy
I remember our RAF survival manuals well. In the event of a shark circling your dinghy, the Sea one advised, 'everyone face outwards in a circle and slap the water to drive it away.' On a sea survival exercise off Singapore we had to do that and that encouraged the beast to hurtle TOWARDS us...
Hi guys
I think I've seen Heinrich Weigmann's Lanc model on the RAF Forum - it seems to have a rail/aerial (probably one on each side) behind the radome. Anyone know what that's for?
Ian Edwards (new boy/sprog!)