RAF Connie....................nearly done

[McColm]

The Avro Shackleton MKIII had tip tanks and was built by the British, flown by the RAF in Scotland (where they show their knees!!) and Cornwall where they don't.

[NARSES2]

Didn't BOAC operate Super-Connies with tip-tanks?  I know QANTAS did and I do believe we were still part of that great Empire (or so London believed, anyway ).

Nah you were a Dominion by then, still useful though 

Mr. Churchill seemed to think otherwise, upon several occasions, Chris.   

Yea, well dear old Winnie never ever did get around to the idea that the Empire had well and truely waned by the time he became a peace time PM.

Tip tanks are the aviation equivalent of knees...not something that a true Britain would show orf to Jonny foreigner.

Who invented the Bombay Bloomers then?   

I think it was Mitchell (on a bad day). If I remember there were only eight built and they served in quiet obscurity with second line transport units.

Im not sure ,but I think Renwall made a "fit the box" scale kit in the late 50s'

I think one may have been used as a casualty evacuation aircraft after Arnhem - ah, no that was a Harrow. Similar though 

[Dork the kit slayer]

The Avro Shackleton MKIII had tip tanks and was built by the British, flown by the RAF in Scotland (where they show their knees!!) and Cornwall where they don't.

Rebellious Scots and kilt wearing ice cream makers.......................no wonder we lost the Empire, tip tanks on Shacks what ever next.

[McColm]

The South African Air Force flew MK3 phase 2 Shacks with tip tanks up until 1984.

[Dork the kit slayer]

Rumours put about to discredit me by my enemies.....................blatantly photo-shopped by anti "Empire aviation" sixth columnists.



You will  be given time alone in the library with your revolver........................you will of course do the honourable thing.

[McColm]

In the library with the gramophone playing a track from Revolver by The Beatles.

[NARSES2]

You will  be given time alone in the library with your revolver........................you will of course do the honourable thing.

One of the classic scenes from Michael Palin's "Ripping Yarns" 

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

"Why should the Empire tremble"

Dont know why I wrote that, just seemed appropriate somehow and I hate being left-out of long, lateral, rambling Dork/Narses threads - and I needed a break from the seemingly interminable packing. 

Ian

[Aircav]

The Jet Provost had tip-tanks too. 

[rickshaw]

Didn't BOAC operate Super-Connies with tip-tanks?  I know QANTAS did and I do believe we were still part of that great Empire (or so London believed, anyway ).

Nah you were a Dominion by then, still useful though 

Mr. Churchill seemed to think otherwise, upon several occasions, Chris.   

Yea, well dear old Winnie never ever did get around to the idea that the Empire had well and truely waned by the time he became a peace time PM.

Well, he did it actually during the wartime.  He and Wavell seemed to think us chaps were colonial troops for some reason.  Both were told in no uncertain terms that it simply "wasn't on".  We'd put with more than enough of that rot during the last show and we'd learnt our lessons.   He hadn't. 

[PR19_Kit]

The Jet Provost had tip-tanks too. 

Some of them did, the uglier ones...... 

[NARSES2]

Well, he did it actually during the wartime.  He and Wavell seemed to think us chaps were colonial troops for some reason.  Both were told in no uncertain terms that it simply "wasn't on". 

Very true and yet strangely he had very advanced ideas about Pan European politics, what we now call the EU. He probably didn't like tip tanks either 

[McColm]

The RAF flew Neptunes whilst they were waiting for the Shackleton to be built and they had tip tanks. The pre-production Br.1150 Atlantic also had tip tanks, but they got removed when production started. (I have a spare Revell kit, I might build that!!)

[Geoff]

Very true and yet strangely he had very advanced ideas about Pan European politics, what we now call the EU. He probably didn't like tip tanks either 

So did Hitler.

[PR19_Kit]

The RAF flew Neptunes whilst they were waiting for the Shackleton to be built and they had tip tanks.

Yes, but Neptunes are American...........