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With the closure of the CAA’s Flight Test Department

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Shackleton Boys - Volumes 1 & 2 By Steve Bond Print The flight deck length ofEssentially a development of the Avro Lancaster via the later Lincoln, the Avro Shackleton was the RAFs first line of defence in the maritime role from 1951 for twenty years, thereafter continuing to serve as an airborne early warning aircraft for another twenty, until 1991. The Old Grey Lady, the Growler, 20,000 rivets in loose formation, but mostly known simply as the Shack, it is viewed with great affection by those who flew and maintained it. In