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Old 22nd Dec 2016, 07:10
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Another problem with tanking a Shackleton was to find a tanker that was slow enough to give the fuel, even if capable of AVGAS!! If I remember, range speed was about 160 kts? (Friday afternoon cruise was 180 kts with endurance at 140 kts). Flying into a headwind, we were regularly overtaken by trains on the East Coast line.
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