It was a very sad day when these were retired, and what they did with the MRA4 project was just criminal . We could have still been flying Nimrods, still had a maritime patrol aircraft, and saved a shed load of cash! Now we've still got to wait a while for the Poseidon to enter service.
Still, its nice to see these beauties here. Thanks for sharing!
I was at the Outward Bound Moray Sea School in Burghead as an 18 year old in 64, 19 that is.
I remember one day seeing a mass take off of Shackletons, can't remember exactly how many (suppose someone has the info somewhere)
but I'm having a reasonable guess at about half a dozen.