Safari Air's Shorts Shanghai

[tigercat]

I can't settle on a name. Currently under consideration

Shorts Scarbourough
Shorts Shanghai
Shorts Skytruck
Shorts Shipper
Shorts Steppe
Shorts Savannah

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[Cobra]

how about calling it the Shorts SkyMonarch? it looks like it would Rules the Skies! Dan

[Taiidantomcat]

That is a superior scheme! 

[tigercat]

The flash seems to have drained some of the colour but it is Giraffe pattern which actualy makes quite an effective military camouflage.

You may have noticed a theme in Safari air's colour schemes.   

[JayBee]

Call it the Short Settle

Settle is an actual place.

[GTX]

Shorts Shangri-La?

Regards,

Greg

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Shorts Shanghai is a four-engine  military and civilian  transport aircraft designed and built Shorts, a development of the Shorts Stirling. Designed as a rugged, heavy-duty transport to operate from unimproved airstrips Capable of using unprepared runways for takeoffs and landings. Its ability to take off and land on grass or dirt runways makes it popular in developing countries, where runways are not always paved. The Shanghai  was used by the RAF  as a troop, medical evacuation, and cargo transport aircraft. The versatile airframe has found uses in a variety of other roles, for airborne assault, search and rescue, weather reconnaissance, aerial refueling, maritime patrol and aerial firefighting. It also saw varied civilian use. These were initially overwhelmingly cargo planes, though several were ordered fitted out for passengers. Some of the civilian uses of the Shanghai have included aerial spraying, freight transport, passenger service, and sport skydiving shuttling and sighseeing.

The 1st May 2010 saw 60 years of service of the Shanghai. Not many examples are still operational but there are a few including this magnificent Giraffe patterned one flown by Safari Air fror their air freight business in Africa.