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Aviation History
1947
1947 - 0286.PDF
188 FLIGHT MARCH 6TH, IQ TUDOR TOPICS Progress with Production : Marks and Layouts : Equipment and Modifications : Atlantic and Empire Services : Costs WHILE those who know—and a lot of those whodon't—talk about high-speed high-altitude trans-ports, jet flights across the Atlantic, and passen- ger travel at 500 or more m.p.h., there are some others whowonder what is happening on our airlines now and what the' position is with several post-war passenger machinesalready produced in this country. From the mass of in- formation printed daily about American and British air-lines, and the transports they fly or would like to fly in the future, it is very hard to form a picture of what is really' going on. In particular, the long delayed appearance of the Avro Tudors on our passengerroutes has given rise to comment, some at least of which has been ill-informed. Even at this late hour the most recent carefully worded an-nouncement regarding the Tudor Is is only that "B.O.A.C. propose tooperate Tudor Is over the North It has been whispered, wethat it is also proposed to Tudor Us on the Empire emerged 40 to 50 Lancasters a week. Readers will remem-ber that the Avro company has three main works in the Manchester area: Chadderton, where Tudor fuselages areproduced, together with Yorks. Avro XIXs, etc. ; Newton Heath, where Tudor wings and centre-sections are pro-duced ; and Woodford, where main-units are assembled and aircraft are flight-tested. Only three Tudor Is, or more cor-rectly two Is and a III, had been collected up to the middle of January and three more had been awaiting collection forsome weeks. Of those collected, the III is the first of two V.V.I.P. machines which are being specially fitted out by r Atlantic,believe, operateroutes. The Tudor I prototype first flew onJune 14th, 1945, and on March 10th, 1946, the Tudor II followed suit. Bothfuselages were, of course, shells at this time, and much remained to be addedin the way of fittings and equipment. Descriptions of the two aircraft weregiven in Flight dated June 28th, 1945, and March 28th, 1946, respectively. The present position regarding con-struction of Tudor Is is that the proto- type and all 22 ordered have left* theworks and are either completed or in the final-erection stages in the hangarsat Woodford, from which in wartime Production (upper) and prototype Tudor Is do not differ appreciablyin appearance excepting for the shape of fin and rudder.
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