Aviation Classics 24: Avro Schackletot The Grey Lady

As all of you know who read this page it’s the hardest thing in the magazine for me, this one doubly so because this is a subject that means a great deal to me. I will admit immediately that I am biased; my father’s experiences with the aircraft fill my earliest memories, his tales instilling me with Shackleton lore even before I could read the aircraft’s history for myself.
I could have filled the next 130 pages with just the stories I know about the aircraft, but that would have missed the point. What I have tried to do instead is capture the essence, the myth of the beast through a combination of the background history of the companies and people behind her, interspersed with the words of those who knew her best.