Claustrophobia

Infraredd · Nov 13, 2015

This one has probably been done to death over the years. Most of the little ones have gone now. There is only the Avro Shackelton & another twin engined jet left in the fenced bit & the twin engined prop one at the entrance.
Shackleton info here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Shackleton
The rear end of this aircraft must have been really awkward to access in flight as it's so confined.
Pics - mostly internals as you will probably have seen this derelict from every angle possible by now.

Why someone has added graff to these planes is beyond me.......

Inside the old jet

Thanks for looking.

krela · Nov 13, 2015

Done to death but your photography style always makes things interest. Cheers.

smiler · Nov 13, 2015

I had a flight in a Shackleton in the sixties, it seemed a lot bigger then, I liked your take on it Red, Thanks

Dirus_Strictus · Nov 14, 2015

A nice set and the images of the Shac's interior are perhaps appropriate, given Remembrance Day. Brings home in a very gut wrenching way the sheer terror that the rear and mid upper gunner of a Lancaster would have had, as they fought centrifugal force to find their parachutes and leave a doomed aircraft. Like Smiler I had a flight in a Lincoln as a young lad and had similar impressions - only later as my interests grew did I really fully understand what that space could/might become.