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Aviation History
1956
1956 - 0053.PDF
FLIGHT, 13 January 1956 SHACKLETON and GRIFFON 'T'HE very impressive aeroplane pictured on these pages is the first Avro••• Shackleton M.R.3 long-range maritime-reconnaissance machine, proto- type of a batch for R.A.F. Coastal Command, and powered, like precedingmarks of Shackleton, by four Rolls-Royce Griffon engines. Also featured are two views of^a Griffon, that above being the very last of these magnifi-cent engines to be turned out from the Rolls-Royce Derby works. This same Griffon, in fact, has other claims to distinction, being the very lastof the great line of Rolls-Royce piston aero engines and destined, not for an R.A.F. Shackleton M.R.3, but for one of a batch of these machines soonto be delivered to the South African Air Force. Grouped around are three men who in recent times have been concerned with Griffon productionand who helped to build the first production Rolls-Royce Eagles some 40 years ago. They are, left to right, Dick Towne (fitter), Jack Martin(chargehand), and Lew Harrison (inspector). As for the Shackleton M.R.3, it differs from the M.R.I and 2 in havinga nosewheel undercarriage, revised outer wing panels carrying tip tanks, clear-vision cockpit canopy and revised exhaust manifolds for the Griffons.
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